Darker Than Night

1999

Darker Than Night was shown from June 16 to July 9, 1999, in a bat cave at the Blijdorp Zoological Gardens in Rotterdam, in the context of the exhibition "Fables of a Technological Era" curated by Antoinette te Paske and Nathalie Houtermans. This is a telepresence artwork which explores the human-robot-animal interface as a means of mediating relations of empathy. In this interactive piece, participants, a telerobotic bat (batbot) and over 300 Egyptian Fruit Bats share a cave and become aware of their mutual presence through sonar emissions and frequency conversions.

Read more about Darker Than Night