Fish-Bird Circle B — Movement B

2004

Fish-Bird Circle B – Movement B is an interactive installation that explores dialogical possibilities between two robots and their audience. The robotic objects are disguised as wheelchairs that impersonate two characters, Fish and Bird that they fall in love but due to ‘technical’ difficulties can not be together. Fish and Bird communicate intimately with one another, and with their visitors, via movement and text.

Fish and Bird learn the behaviour of audience participants, and reason independently to decide their actions. Their distinct personalities are expressed by their reactions to the audience.

The work employs a distributed and decentralised network of sensors to monitor the ‘body language’ of the wheelchairs and participants. Information is communicated wirelessly using the ‘WiFi’ and ‘Bluetooth’ standards. From frame and electronics to software, the robots are completely custom designed, engineered and built by the team.

*The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) is a partner in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems. Dr Mari Velonaki (Media Artist), Dr David Rye (Roboticist), Dr Steve Scheding (Roboticist) and Dr Stefan Williams (Roboticist) form the core art/science collaboration at ACFR. Areas of research include robotics, distributed and decentralised systems and human/machine interaction.

Produced with the assistance of a Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council. Industry Partners: Australia Council for the Arts; Artspace Sydney; Australian Network for Art and Technology; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sydney; Patrick Systems and Technology, and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at The University of Sydney.

Presented at Ars Electronica 2004, TIMESHIFT – The World in 25 Years, by Novamedia Executive Producer: Antoanetta Ivanova Curator: Alessio Cavallaro.

Technical Requirements

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Installation Requirements

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