Hallo,
I would like to bring to your attention "Food for Fish Experiment", a
network activacted food dispenser for an aquarium located in Venice.
I made it using Processing .net library, Arduino and a servo motor.
Commissioned by Guppo Cerbero, Naples-Venice, Italy.
Bless,
kk

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http://www.gruppocerbero.net/fff.html

Keep the FOOD button clicked for 3 seconds and see what happens...

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Food for fish experiment is a web page that shows a 24/24 live streaming video of a fish in an aquarium. Thanks to an automatic device which can be activated remotely, you can feed the fish by clicking the FOOD-button placed just below the video box. An interface that starts a connection between the real and the virtual side, in order to create a series of relationships between the user logged on the net and a fish in an aquarium. It conveys a flow of information towards a static point in the world, simulating the coercion of information systems. It functions as an electronic and mechanical device operated by remote, transforming information into food for the fish which, being inserted into the particular time of the internet, becomes a victim of the network overload. Food For Fish basically is a work in progress, an experiment that takes advantage of the variability and misunderstanding which are typical of the network, and is not intended to have a defined resolution, but to sample the attitudes of the average user in relation with the non-places of the internet.

Oooh fun! One thing that I would suggest is maybe turning the sound capturing off. I had my speakers turned up and it is quite the loud process, almost jumped out of my chair. Along with the red glow, that makes it almost a scary experience to feed the fish. One feeling I never imagined I would feel when feeding a goldfish Also, maybe this is just me, but I think it is a neat/weird experience when you leave the page open and you can see exactly when someone else pushes the button. Granted this happens all of the time on the internet, but it is completely different when you can visually and audibly tell. How cool it would be to be able to see everyone's mouse cursor that is on a web page at the same time.