‘The hive, then, extends itself as part of the environment through the social probing that individual bees enact where the intelligence of the interaction is not located in any one bee, or even a collective of bees as a stable unit, but in the “in-between” space of becoming: bees relating to the mattering milieu, which becomes articulated as a continuum to the social behavior of the insect community. This community is not based on representational content, then, but on distributed organization of the society of nonhuman actors.” (K. Von Frisch)
TV Bug (The Video)
As a child I’d spend countless hours observing and tracking insects – grasshoppers, ants, butterflies – in a field behind my house. I was fascinated with their hidden and mysterious worlds. They occupied the same space I did and yet seemed distant and alien. They went about their day to day rituals almost indifferent to my existence until of course our paths converged. I remember one such occasion, when running through a field, my presence triggered a chain reaction, one in which hundreds of grasshoppers suddenly leaped forward in escape.
As a child I’d spend countless hours observing and tracking insects – grasshoppers, ants, butterflies – in a field behind my house. I was fascinated with their hidden and mysterious worlds. They occupied the same space I did and yet seemed distant and alien. They went about their day to day rituals almost indifferent to my existence until of course our paths converged. I remember one such occasion, when running through a field, my presence triggered a chain reaction, one in which hundreds of grasshoppers suddenly leaped forward in escape.
Our relationship to insects and their seemingly invisible world, colors our perceptions and experiences in profound and uncountable ways – from real life encounters to metaphors about our fears and problems.
We readily appropriate insects – their form, actions and seemingly alien-like existence for use in sci-fi and horror movies. Or to define an error, failure or fault in a system and program – a computer bug. Or our health – there’s a bug going around. Of course there’s also reference to surveillance – the planting of bugs to eavesdrop on unsuspecting participants or more recently, the military’s development of Cyborg Insect Drones for surveillance purposes.
TV Bug (AR)
‘TV BUG’ was developed in conjunction with ‘TV BUG (AR)’. ‘TV BUG (AR)’ is a public space intervention using Augmented Reality (AR) mobile technology to pin selected video sequences from ‘TV BUG’ to specific GPS locations in and around Montreal, Canada. Access to and the experiencing of these augmented sequences is via any smart device (phone, pad, and tablet). Four types of bugs were used for the AR overlay.
