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2010
Installation

The Bird Watcher

 

 

 

 


Installation / 2010
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Abstract
Approaching twitter from a behavioral perspective


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

illustrations by Paola Guimerans

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Installation

The Bird Watche
r . III
from 05.02.2011 until 05.05.2011


COLÖNIA Micro - Gallery
Rua 15 de Novembro, 47
4100 - 421 Porto

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The Black-Throated Finch


COLÖNIA Micro - Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday: 14.00h - 19.30h
Saturday: 14.00h - 19.00h

+351 226 062 885

 

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23-25
July 2010
Colönia
Oporto, Portugal

 

http://www.colonia.pt

 

Vs. III Description
A bird, a cage, a microphone, a camera, a computer and an internet connection.
The bird watcher is remote, artificial and operates on a computer with no inteligence.
The camera and microphone are pointed to and focus on the bird.
It records 24/7 and reacts to the bird’s tweets for editing it’s videos.
Edited videos of bird tweets are automatically uploaded to youtube.
Newly available videos’ links are posted in twitter accounts.

Twitter Accounts:
The_BirdWatcher
The Black-Throated Finch

YouTube Channel:
The Bird Watcher Youtube Channel

thanks to:
Andre Perrotta
Diogo Correia

 


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23-25.07.2010
Installation

Bird feeder, capacitance sensor, arduino, video camera, computer, max-msp application, java application

Interferenze Festival 2010
Bisaccia, Italy


 


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23-25
July 2010
Interferenze Festival
Ducal Castle
Bisaccia, Italy

 

http://www.interferenze.org

 

Vs. II Description
I made a bird feeder that attracts birds and acts like a capacitance sensor to detect when a bird lands on it. When a bird is detected a computer starts recording video from a camera that is pointed to the bird feeder. A microphone captures the sound from it's surroundings and detects if the bird tweets, if this happens as soon as the bird leaves the bird feeder the video is saved to the computer and a java application automatically uploads the movie to The Bird Watcher account on YouTube. After the video is uploaded a new tweet is posted on The_BirdWatcher account on twitter with the link to the YouTube video.

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since January
2010
Artist's Studio
Lisbon, Portugal

 

Vs. I Description
Several accounts where created on Twitter, one for each of the birds listed below.
A Java application, developed in processing, is used to update the twitter status for each of the birds according to each species particular behaviour (ex. owls can only be heard at night, roosters sing at sunrise...).
The application also gets xml weather reports from the Yahoo Weather Report which also diferently affects the species behaviour.
This application is running 24/7 from a dedicated computer installed at my studio.
A Master account called The_BirdWatcher follows all birds tweets.

Bird list
Chick
Chicken
Crow
Cuckoo
Dove
Duck
Eagle
Goose
Rooster
Turkey
Owl
Parrot

 

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eventually more to come*