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The Autotelematic Spider Bots 2006 (Artificial Life Robotic Sculpture Series), is a new artificial life robotic installation. It consists of 10 spider-like sculptures that interact with the public in real-time and self-modify their behaviors, based on their interaction with the viewer, themselves, their environment and their food source.

‘Augmented Fish Reality (2004) is an interactive installation of five rolling robotic fish-bowl sculptures designed to explore interspecies and transpecies communication.
These sculptures allow Siamese Fighting fish (Betta Splendons) to use intelligent hardware and software to move their robotic bowls – under their control. Siamese fighting fish have excellent eyes which allow them to see outside the water. They have color vision and seem to like the color yellow.

Autopoiesis (2000-2005) is an artificial life robotic series of fifteen musical and robotic sculptures that interact with the public and modify their behaviors based on the both the presences of the participants in the exhibition and the communication between each separate sculpture.
This series of robotic sculptures talk with each other through a hardwired network and audible telephone tones, which are a musical language for the group.

Standby Deliver (2000)- consists of steel plates facing each other and moving back and forth attached to activating motors. Underneath is a lit glass sugar molecule. Visitors have access to chewing gum, which they chew and stick to the plates, which will stretch out, creating long colorful strings of the sticky substance. After many cycles of the plates back and forth motion, the glass sugar molecule is coated with the colorful goo.

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