Installation leading to a fish restaurant and a “fwish interface” to signal fish presence; A grid of floating sensor and lighting elements is currently under development for the East River off Pier 15 in Manhattan, and we aim to install a complementary display adjacent to BRAC in the Bronx River. More…
Beyond sustainable fish farming and aquaponics, the fish restaurant — where you feed fish, not eat them — is a project to reconnect nutrient cycles, augment fish populations and remediate the bio-accumulated heavy metals, PCBs and other industrial contaminants. More…
ZOOZ is a project aimed at developing a number of interactive exhibits that productively engage humans and nonhumans in the ZOO. Akin to developing a collection of animal and human enrichment devices, this project is based on designs comprehensible from both human and non-human points of view. They thus enable and encourage cross-special reciprocal interaction. More…
We have developed a prototype water strider communication device, to be used seasonally to communicate with the water striders. This device is a robotic water strider that can suspend on water, and a pager motor to transmit vibrations through the surface. More…
How do female sticklebacks decide which basket to put all their eggs into? How did they convince the guys to do all the housework, tend the babies, look after the bigger kids and build the house as well, all while they pursue their dreams? What does a luxury stickleback pad look like anyhow? And what are just bare necessities of stickleback life? More…
Robotic Geese are remote controlled goose robots that enable participants or robotic goose drivers (aka goosers) to interact with actual geese in urban contexts. The robotic goose interface allows people to approach the birds, follow them closely and interact in a variety of ways that would not otherwise be possible without this interface. More…
Can there be life under the muddy surface of the tjorn? Actually a teaming, if cloudy body of water with a vast cast of local characters including: the prickly, genetically adaptable Sticklebacks; its chief culinary companions, the crustaceans, a booming mass of algae, daitoms, and very possibly the dark mysterious European eel, trapped forever from it Caribbean mating grounds. More…
Re-presenting foods that are delicious and nutritious to both humans and nonhumans, the Cross(x)Species Cookbook presents wilderness adventures for the palette; a ride through the world of nutrient cycles that organize and structure natural and urban systems. will experience the depth, complexity and tastiness of our interconnections with other organisms. More…
The rhinoceros beetle wrestling devise is a head-and-body mounted display, that equips human beings with the appendages required to interact with a male Rhinoceros Beetle. The strongest animal in the world, the Rhinoceros Beetle can lift 30 times its weight. So, in addition to scaling us to the beetle’s proportions, the wrestling device evens the playing field, by granting us similar manipulative capacities. It is an architecture of reciprocity, an interface for human and animal interaction on a equal basis. More…
OOZ proposes two distinct interfaces to the bats, to facilitate interaction in their two distinct periods of activity. At night the bats rely on echolocation; however during the day while roosting they use often quite audible communication and are highly social mammals. More…
A prosthetic to re-imagine mobility, or training wheels for proto-pilots. This device builds on hand-flying skill (typically performed out the windows of a car) and provides a safe method for flight training, experimentation, and reclaiming the experience of flight. More…
