Artist Keny Marshall’s Apophenia is a great example of a symbiosis of technology & conceptual art. “It works like this: The fish bowl is under unswerving surveillance by two eyeball-sized video cameras that transmit their signals to two monitors. The monitors are in turn monitored by eight photo cells, which are triggered whenever a fish swims across the video screen. When a photo cell is triggered, the signal is sent via a network of electronics to one of the bellows, causing it to inhale and exhale, forcing air through its horn(s) and filling the gallery with a swelling, brass-section-on-Robitussin tone. The continuous movement of the fish creates a continually shifting aural composition that reverberates throughout the hard-walled gallery space.”
via WMMNA and another review on Digging Pitt.

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