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Addis Toilet Tree Brush, Acrylic, Graphite, and Xerox Transfer on Paper, 22inx30in, 2009

Claude Goggles, Acrylic, Graphite, and Xerox Transfer on Paper, 22inx30in, 2009

Revival Tent, Acrylic, Graphite, Xerox Transfer, Magazine on Paper, 22inx30in, 2009

Invasive Migratory Bird Defense System, Acrylic, Graphite, and Xerox Transfer on Paper, 22inx30in, 2009

The H Gallery
2356 Rice Blvd.
Houston, TX 77005
Phone: 713-962-5767

Photographs from 'Field Work', now up at The H Gallery in Houston, TX

Although we found early in the Summer Tour that having the Porta Hedge wrapped while traveling at high speeds had adverse effects, it does add a certain element of mystery to the object…

Porta Hedge Partially Wrapped for a Pennsylvania Winter

Many thanks to Kyle Houser, the gallery director at IUP who brought the Porta Hedge to campus!

Longobardo then tattooed each of her friends with the leaves representing the trees native to each person’s home region. For the exhibition, Longobardo photographed the tattoos and displayed the photos along with the booklets.

As the exhibition’s closing event, Longobardo set up a temporary tattoo parlor in the Porta Hedge (which is technically native to no region, but available to any region with roads) on the Allegheny College campus and invited passersby to find out what trees grow in their hometown, and then to select one of those trees as a basis for a leaf tattoo.

More photos at the Porta Hedge Travel Blog

Ginko Leaf Tattoo in the Porta Hedge (A Non-Native Request)

Handmade Leaf Booklet by Jessica Longobardo

Sugar Maple Tattoo by Jessica Longobardo

This striking video illustrates the computer flight commands as they are relayed from the human operator to the computer to the beetle, and makes visible the beetle’s incorporation into the mechanical experimental apparatus.

The team’s paper on the project can be found at the IEEE’s Digital Library.  The paper abstract says, “We present an implantable flight control microsystem for a cyborg beetle. The system consists of multiple inserted neural and muscular stimulators, a visual stimulator, a polyimide assembly and a microcontroller. The system is powered by two size 5 cochlear microbatteries. The insect platform is Cotinis texana, a 2 cm long, 1-2 gram Green June Beetle. We also provide data on the implantation of silicon neural probes, silicon chips, microfluidic tubes, and LED’s introduced during the pupal stage of the beetle.”

It seems simple enough, so when will parents be able to buy these beetles as birthday presents for their children?

There is a slight chance that these gift card cases were overstock from last Christmas (Christmas Trees Run on Dunkin’ or Christmas Runs on Dunkin’?) and simply remained out on the shelf… but that would collapse Dunkin’ Donuts’ grand vision of ecologically diverse coffee dependence and deprive us of these ambitious, yet feasible slogans under the world dependence model:

Forests Run on Dunkin’
Paper Mills Run on Dunkin’
USPS Runs on Dunkin’
Junk Mail Runs on Dunkin’
Landfills Run on Dunkin’
(as a bonus to artists and crafters, we could also add: Papier-mâché Runs on Dunkin’)