EOD
Abstract
EOD 04 is an installation by Frederik De Wilde (BE) created in collaboration with the University Hasselt in Belgium and Bruno Zamborlin (IT).
The project is a interactive installation founded on special species of living fish that perceive, electro-sense, their environment and communicate with each other by emitting electric signals, either in pulses or waves. The project explores the normal communication mechanisms of electric fish, including JAR (the means by which a e-fish avoids attempts by other e-fish to jam its frequency) and thus investigates the communication and non-communication mechanisms between men and animal. With other words; the interspeciescommunication.
The installation is based on one plexiglass tube presenting a specific composition of e-fish producing different electric signals. In the tube antennas and sensors capture the e-fishes signals which are directly related to 2 speakers transforming these signal into sound, what we hear is the fish's electric signals_ their communications. A grid of leds is placed in the tube pulsing according to the intensity, rhythm, and position of the emitted signals from the blind e-fishes. In this manner the electrical impulses of the e-fishes drive sound and light, and thus an entire audiovisual space.
About iDAT
The iDAT (Interactive Design Art and Technology) exhibition is a unique combination of major interactive media events Ars Electronica from Austria and Interactive Tokyo from Japan.
It is calling for interactive media works that merge design, art, and technology, moves beyond technology traditions, and transforms social assumptions. We are seeking interactive works in the form of installations which will be part of the exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre.
The works should have a focus on interactive media systems that have an innovative technological concepts blended with excellence in art and/or design. We are also encouraging works which have harmonious parts of content and interactive technology, with a focus on human usability, and expanding the scope of media for use in human society.