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Brooklyn is Watching » Blog Archive » Waiter, there’s a bug in my SIM.

Postcard from Second Life. 

At Solo Mornington’s (from “Dissolve the Wall”) request I am writing about Paddy Demina’s flying insect–and, after some inspection, I’m glad that I am.

In a small, humble patch of of the BIW sim hovers a large, hybrid robot/helicopter insect. It moves in short jerks and alternates between sprinkling water out it’s backside and (and this part I love) planting flowers with its two front robo-anthropod legs. The whole production stays within close proximity to Paddy Demina’s “Robot Pool,” which seems to be the start/end point for the whole script. (Side note: look at me catching on to this script stuff. First the feather, now THIS? Somebody give me a cookie prim.)

This piece spoke to me in no small part because my former seminar professor was Cary Peppermint, one half of ecoarttech.net. Ecoarttech “works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art that explores the environmentality of modern life.” Paddy Demina’s robot insect seems to have a mirror relationship to EcoArtTech–as they seek to explore new ways of integrating the natural and technologically synthetic, Paddy’s work infuses our technologically synthetic universe with it’s own dose of naturality. In the not-s0-distant future, will this be the challenge we face??

It’s interesting to note that with all the ways in which SL simulates RL, with its wind and water and day/night settings, that there aren’t more insects present, or any other natural pests for that matter. In our Utopian cyber-enclave, we envision a world free from insects, plague, and other things that ruin a good summer picnic.

In reality, however, these insects should be included in our vision of Utopia. Insects largely help to pollinate flowers and keep them in existence; they also serve as a valuable food source for many animals (including us, down the road a bit) and process a large percent of the world’s waste (helloooo, maggots!) Paddy Demina’s robot insect suggests that our utopian cyber realities should not be free from the pests we fallaciously abhor in real life but rather that there is a place for these creatures in SL, and that perhaps it is not the creatures themselves that we detest but instead our lack of control over them. Paddy Demina’s robot insect provides SL with the best of what insects have to offer–a quiet, solitary creature that plants and maintains flowers, and never invites itself into our showers or soups.

13 Responses to “Waiter, there’s a bug in my SIM.”

It’s cool that this insect is tending flowers and is seemingly autonomous. But SL is already full of pests and parasites of the human variety!

I once suggested to a Linden-Looking-For-Ideas that there be some kind of environmental challenges affecting sims and parcels on a random basis. (I mean intentionally random. Not the kind of randomness that comes with hardware failures, evil hackers, and so forth.) Plagues, insect or reptile infestations, storms that destroy stuff, eternal darkness, etc – could make the SL experience a little more challenging and less .. uh … routine.

My idea wasn’t, as they say, encouraged.

Actually I was suggesting you look at Red Randt’s mechanical sparrow, but the helicopter insect is interesting too. :-)

the thing that I love about this work is the whispering. Everytime the robot bug makes a new flower it whispers the flowers name in an intense-sounding and vaguely european accented stage-whisper. “Lilac”, “Sunflower”, etc. It ads just one more level of bizarreness.

Hey Jay you get +10 points for noticing the flower voices but -10 for presuming they are coming from this insect.

well, the obvious conclusion is not always the correct one, and coincident events can be independent.

surely Jay should get +1 point for “vaguely European accent…” and -1 point for not capitalizing European?

It would be cooler if the flower names came from the insect.

Agree Dekka / Disagree Oberon.

Wait, no props for the super sexy Jersey accent? sigh.

Maybe Jay wasn’t listening in stereo Amy, Limey is on the right, Yankee on left.

oh you vague europeans.

LOL
OK here’s a video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHUkZ78ug4Q

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