Where's the Chicken?

Where’s the Chicken? is a locative robotics public artwork, which supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. It embodies public interaction, collaborative narrative, automata system and mobile technology. The artwork constructs a narrative performance which cooperates among the robot, cultural specific locations and the public participation. The chicken robot is a life form mechanical automata, which reframes its own definition and its general perception. In “Where’s the Chicken?”, a “better” kind of chicken, a chicken robot which does not spread any diseases, a role model of “well-behaved chicken”, has been shown publicly. It re/ frames the question of how we extend the medium and ourselves, history and culture, meanwhile, share the same time-space with us and highly cultural/ location specific.

Conceptual Overview

The artwork itself is not simply a simulation of the reality, it should be originates from our everyday perception of reality and through an aesthetic system, the perception will be twisted, altered and transformed. Audience contribute actively to the construction of the artwork through their interactivity and creativity with the new scenarios, structures and interfaces.

The narrative hybridizes, enriches and continues with their chosen locations, their “performances” and their stories. They may take pictures with the robot, upload the pictures when they return it to the artist, or tell the artist what they have done with the chicken, hence construct a collaborative “chicken map of the city”.

Award and Exhibition

Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR China (July 2009)

Finalist Award, Asia Digital Art Awards 2009, Fukuoka, Japan (Feb 2010)

For more information, please visit http://www.wheresthechicken.org

Supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and funding made possible through collaboration with the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University

Special thanks to Center For Digital Arts & Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington, Seattle, US

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