This installation in the public space was placed in the construction site of the new Ars Electronica Center. To vivify the flooded reservoir, 500 lucid fishes got placed in the see – plastic fishes with bright battery-powered LEDs in their inside.
They got put into the construction site at the evening of the 16. September 2007 to illuminate the whole place. The colorful glow coming out of the reservoir integrated the building site in the city of lights. The fishes symbolize the transition from the natural state of the meadow, which was there the last hundred of years, to the new modern technical museum.
Furthermore, it was possible to fish the lightfishes from the construction border using fishing rods with magnets. The fishermen and -women could take their booty with them as a trophy. This was possible between 19 and 24 o’glock, and 350 of the 500 fishes got catched by the audience.
Thanks for their friendly Aid to the city of Linz, the company Strabag,the AEC and the people working there.
More thanks to all helpers, without whom this wouldn’t have come true: Sandra Hochholzer, David Thaller, Isabella Grödl, Michael Etzlstorfer, Stefan Maier, Leonard Wegscheider, Imre Haag, Stefan Juster, Adrian Berger-Merwald, Philipp Lukas, Elisabeth Fischer, Sabine Rehberger, Franziska Thurner.
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