Baby
Love
a
wifi mobile installation by Shu Lea Cheang
Invited art work special presentation
Zero One
ISEA2006 San Jose,
August 8-13, 2006
Venue：San Jose City Hall Rotunda
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/newCityHall/gettingThere.asp
Baby Love is a
participatory installation that consists of 6 autonomously
mobile teacups with 6 clone babies. The teacups are
modeled after spinning carnival rides, except that the
soundtrack of love songs can be uploaded by public via the
web at http://babylove.biz and directly to the teacups,
where they are coded as ME (memory and emotion) data for
the clone babies. By taking a teacup ride with the babies,
the ME data is retrieved, jumbled and eventually
crashes.
Baby Love situates
human and baby clone riders in a perpetual spin of the
familiar fairground with contemporary remix pop culture.
Baby Love is a National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (http://www.tmoa.gov.tw)
commission with support from Council for Culture Affairs,
Taiwan in collaboration with SQV Design International,
Tatung University, Mechanical Engineering department,
eLife Techonology Innovation Center, Sony Computer Science
Laboratory Paris. US exhibition liaison: Taipei Cultural
Center [TECO], New York
Upload.deposit.recycle love songs for clone babies of 20XX
http://babylove.biz
For further
information, please contact Taipei Cultural Center at:
(212) 697-6188; or
www.tpecc.org
