This work is an attempt at creating a social space where effective communication can take place via a collaborative (as opposed to competitive) environment and where technology and art can be understood as being about people and their relationship with the world at large.
There are 4 microphones set up on a round table. An inflated balloon of a globe floats overhead. When any one of the microphones is activated, it triggers a sound response (randomly from a database of sounds of Nature – wind howling, bird chirping, etc.), from the balloon. When 2 or more microphones are activated at the same time, the microphones now function as controllers to control the propellers of the balloon in terms of directions. Audience will begin to realize that each microphone controls a certain propeller in a particular direction and if they start synchronizing their efforts, they can effectively control the movement of the balloon.
unEarth
Interactive installation in collaboration with Ian Kirk
2004
