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<HEAD> <TITLE>BIONIC CODES - Ebon Fisher</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor = "#000000" text="#267C6F"link="#0c0ff" alink="#00E500" vlink="#11AA44" BGCOLOR="#000000" LINK="#43A591"> <CENTER> <BR> _____________<BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="4">Early Experiments</FONT> <BR><FONT SIZE="4"> ___________ <BR><BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">In 1981, while still a painting major at Carnegie-Mellon University, Ebon Fisher "tagged" Pittsburgh with diagrams of neurons. This crude displacement of biological science into the streets marked the beginning of a long fascination with the living properties of information.<BR><BR></FONT> <img src="GrafittiCar.GIF" border=2> <BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">Neuron on Car, Boundary Street, Pittsburgh, 1981</FONT> <BR><BR><BR><BR> <img src="NeuronGCourse.GIF" border=2> <BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">Neuron in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, 1981</FONT> <BR><BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3"> Neurons, or brain cells, link together into a complex network known as the nervous system. In their own fashion Fisher's graffiti neurons splayed out in a circuitous, organic network from scientific textbooks to the streets to the local press, such as this neuron in "The Pitt News," Pittsburgh, 1981:<BR></FONT><BR><BR> <img src="Neuron_PittNews.GIF" border=2><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR> <img src="9Neurons.GIF" border=0><BR><BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">9 Neurons drawn by 9 Psychologists, Pittsburgh, 1981.<BR></FONT> <FONT SIZE="2">These were collected by Fisher at Carnegie-Mellon University. By posing as a psychologist he was able to collect these samples without the awkward imposition of an "art" project biasing the results.<BR></FONT> <BR><BR><BR> <img src="bookpage.GIF" border=0> <BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">A Page from "Book.DAT," 1984</FONT> <BR><BR><BR> <img src="book.GIF" border=0> <BR><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">"Book.DAT," 1984</FONT><BR> <FONT SIZE="3">The number of zeros on each page and their distribution were both randomized. Fisher programmed this book of zeros in Pascal to explore the loop between his own programming activity and the effect of the lulling, unexpected fields of zeros programming him back.<BR> </FONT> <BR> </CENTER> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <CENTER><a href="earlycodes.html" ><img src="=return_weirdly=.gif" border=0></a></CENTER> <BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>