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THE HUMAN-DOLPHIN COMMUNICATION LABORATORY


Bigtwin is an artist who can animate interactive 3D neighborhoods and paradigm-defining cyberdogs in his sleep. His parties and Techno-Romantic gatherings at Gargoyle Mechnique in New York's East Village are legendary for their hacker spirit of independence and self-invention.. Yet now I find him, once again, following his rare curiosity into the strange and yet-to-be-professionalized waters of another world: inter-species communications. As the world catches up with cyber culture, Bigtwin has moved his focus a few degrees towards Earth's most ignored alien minds.

Bigtwin's contribution to Hyper-Runt is a proposal for improving the interface between humans and dolphins. Naturally the poolside architecture and high-tech apparatus was too costly for the intended user, Sea Life Park in Hawaii. But his aborted plan is a lovely reticulum of gear and flesh deserving of a public viewing. It's an interdisciplinary, dual-species Hyper-Runt rippling with undefined potential and purposes. Our society's inability to come to terms with cetacean intelligence is all part of this Hyper-Runt's warbling elixir.

--Ebon Fisher

The Human-dolphin Communication Laboratory is a proposal for a lab that would allow humans and dolphins to interact. The proposal incorporates the works of Dr. John C. Lilly and Dr. Ken Marten and was submitted to Sea Life Park in Hawaii.

Potenial components include:

  - Dolphin tanks with videophone systems
- Live video of the dolphins streamed over the internet
- Underwater touch screen interface systems
- Audio systems to record and broadcast all aspects of dolphin sounds



Bio

Bigtwin is the alias name of Jim Suhre, a New York based artist working in both traditional and electronic mediums. He was born in 1965 in Indiana and grew up on a grain and livestock farm. In 1988, he received a degree from Stanford University in Economics, and promptly moved to New York and began work as an artist.

Bigtwin's work seeks to explore the union (and dis-union) of several seemingly opposite and inverse concepts. Namely,

- digital and analog
- spiritual mysticism and scientific logic
- humans and machines
- symmetry/uniqueness
and many more too abstract to list concisely.

TechnoRomantic mixed-media paintings combine 3-Dimensional models created on the computer, with impressionist imagery painted with water-based goauche.

Analog Circuitry drawings explore unifying ancient/future, animal/machine, symmetry/uniqueness, and digital/analog.

He also works in video, with his associates Illage Vidiot, The Dukes of Biohazard, Dittymeister, and Mastermind, combining computer animation with filmed material, and scored with original music.