{"id":692,"date":"2011-07-06T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T07:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/scale\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T02:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:52:04","slug":"scale-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/scale-2\/","title":{"rendered":"scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-692-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/vimeo\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19933816?loop=0&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19933816?loop=0\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19933816?loop=0<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><em>scale<\/em> is an interspecies art project: an audience-interactive installation that involves nocturnal electric fish from the Amazon River Basin. Twelve different species of these fish comprise a \u2018choir\u2019 whose sonified electrical fields provide the source tones for an immersive audiovisual environment. The fish are housed in individual tanks configured in a custom-built arc of aluminum frames placed around a central podium. Each fish can be heard \u2014 unprocessed or with digital effects added, with immediate control over volume via a touchscreen panel \u2014 through a 12-channel surround sound system, and with LED arrays under each tank for visual feedback. All software is custom-designed.<!--break--><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13826\" src=\"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-1024x579.png 1024w, https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-1536x868.png 1536w, https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-14-at-2.47.17-AM-2048x1157.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project leaders are comprised of a composer\/sound designer (Jay Alan Yim), a visual artist (Marlena Novak), and a neural engineer (Malcolm MacIver). Novak and Yim, collaborating as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localstyle.tv\">localStyle<\/a>, make intermedia works motivated by the theme of perception and that explore such topics as boundaries relating to physical and intangible properties, issues of trespass, and the mating behavior of hermaphroditic marine flatworms. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neuromech.northwestern.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MacIver\u2019s research<\/a> focuses on sensory processing and locomotion in electric fish and translating this research into novel bio-inspired technologies for sensing and underwater propulsion through advanced fish robots.<\/p>\n<p>The world premiere of <em>scale<\/em> took place at the STRP Festival (18-28 November 2010, Eindhoven, NL), one of Europe&#8217;s most important presenters of art and technology. The project was supported in part by grants from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts, Northwestern University\u2019s Research Grant Council, and the Murphy Society.<\/p>\n<p><em>scale<\/em> was also presented at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaartchina.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TransLife Triennial<\/a> at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, 27 July-17 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Text from documentary video entry:\u00a0 http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19933816\u00a0 (cited 6 July, 2011)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13826,"template":"","artist":[862,860,859,858],"streams":[8,20],"keywords":[2153,2303,2292,2129,2097],"decade":[5545],"media":[5550,5546],"class_list":["post-692","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-jay-alan-yim","artist-localstyle","artist-malcolm-maciver","artist-marlena-novak","streams-charged-environments","streams-exhibitions-institutions-communities-collaborations","keywords-collaboration","keywords-fish","keywords-interactivity","keywords-sonification","keywords-sound","decade-2010s","media-installation","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13835,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/692\/revisions\/13835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}