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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) [Netscape]"> <title>BIONIC CODES - Ebon Fisher</title> </head> <body text="#454545" bgcolor="#000000" link="#47E1D2" vlink="#00D1B2" alink="#00E500"> <blockquote> <center> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">________________</font> <p><font color="#1AA6B3"><font size=+1>Bionic Codes</font></font> <br><font color="#2B8C7F">________________</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="3_prongBig.GIF" BORDER=1 height=195 width=266> <p><font color="#2B8C7F"><font size=+0>3-Prong Focal Entity</font></font> <br><font color="#2B8C7F"><font size=-1>Test-Site Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1992</font></font></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">Bodies moving freely in a dark room triggered projections of computer-generated structures, some pointing to other structures. The exhibit, "Heat-Seeking Psycho-Suctions," included 14 projections, two of which were accompanied by pulsing sound.</font></center> </blockquote> <center><img SRC="PsychoSuctions.GIF" BORDER=0 height=218 width=252></center> <p><br> <blockquote> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">ABOVE: Other Media Organisms from the Same Exhibit. To purchase a Media Organism meant adopting the underlying code and taking on the responsibility for its manifestations and propagation.</font></center> </blockquote> </blockquote> <br> <center> <p><img SRC="=wBig.GIF" BORDER=1 height=152 width=299></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">Exploring media rituals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in the early 1990s, Fisher began to encode the resulting flows of images and information in a series of iconic diagrams. These lead to Fisher's exhibit at Test-Site. In turn, the computer code expressed in the Test-Site projections was transformed into Fisher's first "mature" bionic code, "EQUALIZE WITH OTHER BEINGS" (above). This code, and many like it, has floated in a variety of media throughout the world. The Bionic Codes were eventually cultivated into Zoacodes.</font></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">BELOW<font size=+0>: Bionic Codes at the Krannert Art Museum exhibition </font>"Out of Town: The Williamsburg Paradigm," curated by Jonathan Fineberg of the University of Illinois, 1993.</font></center> </blockquote> </blockquote> <center> <p><br><img SRC="SystemFORHetsdiag.GIF" BORDER=0 height=333 width=148> <br> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Plan for "System for Equalizing Heterosexuals"</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="Krannert_Entr_col.GIF" BORDER=1 height=94 width=140> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Entrance</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="Krannert_mid_BW.GIF" BORDER=2 height=322 width=208> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Outer Chamber</font> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Entering this room triggered a strobe light which revealed a blood-red room and a recorded voice intoning "remember." On the pedastol a strobe flickered behind a Bionic Code with the text, "EQUALIZE SEDUCTION." (Voice: Megan Raddant).</font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="=FinstHeart.GIF" BORDER=0 height=128 width=115> <p><img SRC="=Finstallation.GIF" BORDER=0 height=91 width=208> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Inner Chamber</font></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">Entering this room triggered a deep pulsing sound and the projection of a Bionic Code on the floor. A diagram of a human heart appeared dimly in the background.</font></center> </blockquote> <center><img SRC="Fuji_elitist&feetsm.GIF" BORDER=1 height=120 width=160> <p><img SRC="Fuji_elitist&handCU.GIF" BORDER=1 height=120 width=160> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">"BYPASS ELITIST NODE" presented by Tetsuo Suda on "Oh My NY!," Fuji Television, 1997. The broadcast was live via satellite from Galapagos Art Space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to 10 million Japanese morning viewers.</font> <br> <p><img SRC="CodesMUTE.GIF" BORDER=1 height=141 width=209> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">ABOVE: Bionic Codes absorbed into Mute Magazine, London, 1997. Other magazine appearances include KGB, Wired, New York Magazine, New York Press, Sandbox, Coil, and websites such as Word, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, The MIT Media Lab, "Art Dirt" on Pseudo Online Radio, Artnetweb, Rhizome, The Encyclopedia Britannica and the Guggenheim Museum's website.</font> <br> <p><img SRC="studecodes.GIF" BORDER=2 height=161 width=201> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Student notes, University of Wales College, 1997.</font> <br> <p><img SRC="warholrandom.GIF" BORDER=3 height=146 width=200><font color="#000000">.....</font><img SRC="Fisher_Schienke_Zoacode.jpg" BORDER=1 height=150 width=200></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">LEFT: Projection of "EXALT IN RANDOM CONNECTIONS" at Substation, a multimedia rave in the old Warhol Ballroom, New York, 1997.</font> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">RIGHT: Environmental Anthropologist, Erich Schienke, with a tattoo of the same code, which he first encountered in Wired Magazine. The text component of the code is stored in his mind.</font> <p><font color="#2B8C7F">Projections in other New York venues included The Limelight, El Sensorium, Room Temperature, Galapagos, The Kitchen, and a rave in the Brooklyn Anchorage.</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="tattoocloser.GIF" BORDER=1 height=208 width=219></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">"ORBIT PROBES VIA MUTUAL SPIN" tattooed on the shoulder of Canadian biker/programmer Geoff Wilson. Wilson, from British Columbia, first encountered the bionic codes over the internet.</font></center> <br><font color="#2B8C7F"></font> </blockquote> </blockquote> <center><img SRC="CodesQuakerMtg.GIF" BORDER=1 height=125 width=201></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">Bionic Codes at Quaker Meeting House, Coulter Street, Philadelphia, 1995.</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="WallDiags.GIF" BORDER=2 height=174 width=212></center> </blockquote> <center> <p><br><font color="#2B8C7F">Bionic Codes worked into diagrams of computer networks in</font> <br><font color="#2B8C7F">the Wall Street Journal, 1994.</font> <br> <br> <p><img SRC="Hafsa_Tshirt.GIF" BORDER=1 height=142 width=208><img SRC="Weirdlysticker.GIF" BORDER=1 height=179 width=225></center> <blockquote> <center><font color="#2B8C7F">Bionic Codes on T-shirts and stickers, 1996 and 1994.</font> <br><font color="#2B8C7F">"LINK WITH DISTRESSED HUMANS" on Hafsa Ibrahim,</font> <br><font color="#2B8C7F">Williamsburg, Brooklyn.</font></center> </blockquote> <br> <br> <center> <p><a href="codindex.html" target="_parent"><img SRC="mini_LINK_WEIRDLY.gif" BORDER=6 height=103 width=119></a> <p><font face="Geneva"><font size=-2><a href="codindex.html" target="_parent">RETURN</a></font></font> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <p><font color="#184B81"><font size=-2>© 2004 Ebon Fisher</font></font></center> </blockquote> </body> </html>