Core77 has a report about its trip to NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Winter Show.

Among its favourites is Fish-byte.net, an installation, by Jason Babcock and Michael Kertesz, that uses computer vision technology to open a communication channel between the visitor and a live goldfish, capturing the behavior of one species and translating it to another.

The human is fooled into thinking that s/he is communicating via an LCD display with another person, only to find out, walks into the adjacent room, that it was a fish s/he was actually interacting with.

I wish I could have seen Jason Lee, Richard Miller and Kuan Huang’s Club Robot which stars Mr. Bubba, a robot programmed to dance and emit bubbles or spit in response to a light show produced by the Synthable, a turntable-like instrument that controls sounds and notes from any keyboard or synthesizer.