ENERGY PARASITES
redirecting energy usageeric paulos :: eiu :: 2011
Honorary Mention Interactive Art
Ars Electronica 2012
Energy parasites are handcrafted objects designed to opportunistically harvest small bits of energy across public landscapes. Agnostic to energy origin or ownership, these artifacts redirect their captured energy through a variety of means including expressing it or storing it for later reacquisition and usage.
An Energy Parasite at Ars Electronica attached to Tram
We must not be exclusively concerned with visible relations of forces on a grand scale, but also take into account molecular domains of sensibility, intelligence, and desire.
-Félix Guattari The Three Ecologies (1989)
The aucenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced.
- Walter Benjamin Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936)
Site of Harvesting: Gutter
Name: draindrain
Site of Harvesting: Headlight
Name: luxsap
Site of Harvesting: Escalator
Name: escaleech
New Energy Parasites for Ars Electronica
