The Food Chain and Dream World of the Organism

The Food Chain and Dream World of the Organism is a collaboration between Erik Sjodin, Matti Kallioinen and David Kjelkerud (from the Physical Interaction Lab) for the Man Machine 2 exhibition which in turn is a collaboration between the The Interactive Institute and The National Museum of Science & Technology. The exhibition is on display at The National Museum of Science & Technology in Stockholm, Sweden from December 8th 2007 to April 27th 2008.

The Food Chain and Dream World of the Organism is a landscape of bodies that form an organism which visitors can step into and breath life in. Visitors feed the organism by blowing into an umbilical cord that extends out of its main body. The organism responds by shifting in color, emitting sounds and by growing in size until it eventually rewards its nurturer by opening up a window to its dream world.

The installation is part of the Man Machine 2 exhibition whose theme is how the human mind and body “have interplayed with the machine historically and how man and machine will interact in the future”.

“The work can be interpreted literary: we need oxygen, interaction and engagement to survive”.

Rikard Ekholm, SvD Konst

this is a nice piece, possibly for Portable Pixeli Playground?