New installation works by CiCi Blumstein, FuseBox artist-in-residence, who has been working with this new space and its people from a distinctly amphibian perspective ...
… shaping it as a new, fragile bio-habitat. Take part in this subtle space-encoding process – consult the Amphibian Oracle and add your voice to the #Croakorus, meet Big Data, Little Data, activate a frog chorus in The Singing Boardroom, explore The Secret Life of Desks, pit yourself against The Measuring Room and build the foundations for Cytomotion City, share an apportionment of light, disrupt the flow of Pond Data and more. Most importantly, make a difference to amphibians everywhere!
Space Encoders: When Frogs Go Digital will also feature in the following events at Brighton Digital Festival:
Big Data Hackathon – Data Storytelling: The Global Financial Crisis and Recovery
Gallery Event – Data Storytelling: The Global Financial Crisis and Recovery
Pecha Kucha Night Brighton Vol. 19
Dance Hack at Brighton University
Part of the The Lucky Frog Log project, an unexpected inter-species art collaboration initiated by a Common Frog (Rana temporaria). Contact [email protected] or click here to find out more about the project.
From my Wired Sussex guest blog post about the Space Encoders residency at The FuseBox [read full post here]:
“It’s a cold afternoon in December 2012, just before the frost sets in. I open the backyard door and shake out a dusty rug, blinking into the white winter sunlight. At the edge of my vision, I catch an extra sparkle, watery and rhythmic – waves in a deep bucket.
A frog.
Skinny and golden, a small jewel set in dark blue plastic. I scoop the frog up and out of the icy water, its smooth, delicate body so light, I’m not sure it’s really there, nestling in my hand, exhausted yet fiercely alive. As if under a spell, I turn from the barren winter yard and step through the door with my treasure, knowing exactly what to do next. I’ve never looked back.” [...]
Space Encoders: When Frogs Go Digital is supported by a BDF micro grant from their appropriately named grassroots fund.
