OOZ
Categories: Projects
Unlike the traditional zoo this is place where the animals remain by choice, a zoo without cages. Like a traditional zoo, it is a series of sites where animals and humans interact. However, the interactions at an OOZ site differ from that of a Zoo. Ooz is interactive in that it provides human a set of actions, the animals provide reactions and these couplets add to a collective pool of observations.
In recognition of the remarkable and complex behavioral strategies of underrepresented and poorly understood animal populations that thrive in urban environments, OOZ proposes a spectrum of human-animal interfaces. This proposal focuses on the continued development, completion and public installation of three OOZ interfaces in New York City addressing NYC (non-human) inhabitants: Canada Geese, Shortnosed Sturgeon & Striped Bass of the Hudson River and Brown & Red Bats. What follows is a brief introduction to each of these elements, with specific attention to geese as a case study for understanding the OOZ project framework.
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Communication Technology …For the Birds
Communicative Technology for the birds (and humans) i.e. the perches; The device in the Whitney’s courtyard creates a public experiment and shows the birds adopting a new technology. The device is designed to facilitate human bird communication, translating into human dialect some of the bird’s concerns and arguments. From the birds’ point of view, they provide an experimental platform to observe which perch/noise/arguments are effective in convincing people to share resources.
Public Offering
The ooz project will incorporate according and proposes going public as part of the show (including the production of an OOZ catalog publication/public offering). Because incorporated entitites are afforded the rights of an individual, for nonhumans involved in the incorporated entity it give them a method of representation. By having nonhuman board members we further explore the limits of limited liability and the ‘curtain.”
Fish Sensor from xDesign Project on Vimeo.
High Resolution Press Images:
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