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“Foot Print” Neural Object Ⅳ
planning, designing and production

1994

National Science Museum

Swimming in swarms of noctilucae in the pitch dark sea at night. Respective noctilucae glimmers being stimulated by the movement of the swimmer. Without any nerve center of the swarm, each noctiluca glimmers on its own. From the distance, the glimmering swarm looks like making formation assimilating into a human figure. Foot Prints is the work inspired by such experience. A swarm of artificial noctilucae mimicking a noctilua’s glimmering system is the mechanism of Foot Prints. When people are walking on Foot Prints, the “noctilucae” is stimulated, excited and glimmering, then gradually ceasing as people are passing through. In this exhibition, 5,400 artificial noctilucae were built in underneath the reinforced glass floor. A visitor leaves footprints and might experience the feeling of going across the water surface.
 
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