The Extinction Poker Machine Series
The interactive installation, The Extinction Poker Machine, proposes to animate a warning about the loss of biodiversity. In the first in the series, a selection from an online collection of 206 digital images of native bees is reanimated in apparent flights of the long dead, across three electronic screens, animated by a generative system. Not the model from biology, but one based on the integers favoured by computers. The system halts the flight of the bees on each of the screens successively, but randomly. A pause, before they take to flight again. Inevitably the generative system will align all three images to match. In preparation are Birds, Fishes and Bush. (Consultation and HTML5 coding by Adam Hinshaw. Bees first installed at Siteworks 2017, Bundanon homestead).