Bamboofish & You

Exhibited on Governor's Island at the Cuny Institute for Sustainability's annual Art and Science Show. This solar-powered recycled ecosystem required participation to survive. Visitors to the gallery interacted with the bamboo by providing water and light through servo motors and microcontrollers. Awarded second place.
Date Created: 2008-06-15
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The bamboofish required participation to survive. Here children fed water and acivated lights to help the bamboo photosynthesize.
The Bamboofish was solar-powered and situated with a brilliant view of downtown NYC.
A potentiometer contoller a servomotor allowing for the precise deposit of water onto the bamboo.
Made of trash, recycled and found materials, Bamboofish like fungus represented the growth that comes from decay.
More potentiometer spinning
Close up on the apparatus.
Bamboo is so photogenic, who knew?!
Everyword in every language translates roughly as: sun.
Solar as in Soul Are.
From and to.
Potentiating a difference as in voltage, activism, change.
Egyptian electrician.
Plastic is immortal.
We don't deserve it.
our bodies rot quickly tupperware holds tight.
There is only one sense: touch.
Sun-touch on eyes is light, sun-touch on skin is warm.
Maybe this is cruel to my bamboofish.
But I want to give it light.
I want to give it water.
I want you to give it light.
I want you to give it water.
Samwell Freeman 3