DESCRIPTION
Fish need hard drive is a self-reflective piece that speaks about our dependence on technology.
CONCEPT
Six tropical zebrafish were put in an aquarium where the heater was substituted with a plastic case that contained a hard drive. I then turned my computer into a server and made the hard drive host a website that documented the evolution of the fish. If the fish were entertaining enough to get visitors on the website, the hard drive would be solicited often and provide the head needed to keep them alive. This metaphor of the “self-made fish” highlights the dependence on the optical cables that are present in all of our homes.
Unfortunately, my lack of zoological skills combined with a poor promotional plan did not yield the expected results, and most of the fish perished.
TECHNOLOGY
Large aquarium, zebrafish, old hard drive and custom case, tubes, Apache server, PHP, mySql.
