Phishies : Expo version

14 09 2007

Well, we’re finally there. The project is at the expo, which will open today. Grading is pending, but last wednesday the flock of teachers gathered round each project to prod and poke the project and its creators.

See what the moving screen looks like here: Phishies : expo version.

Blurb text about the project:

Phishies
by Menno van Elk, Chris Heydra and Sjoerd Kranendonk

Crowds often point to the human variant; a large group of people. After extensive research into the possibilities for using this interpretation, we came upon the usage of the word crowd for describing groups of animals. Most of the time, more specific words are used (shoal, herd, flock, etc.). The interpretation of a crowd in this project is: a group of at least that amount of individuals that permits group behaviour to be observed. The project consists of three blocks, each a window on a different version of reality. The undistorted view of a fish tank, a simulation of a school of fish and a representation of the fish in the tank, abstracted to be similar in appearance to the simulation. All this with the goal of letting the viewer decide: what is simulation and what is reality?