Richard Barnes' "Murmer"
In thinking about the application of natural processes in technology, I was reminded of Richard Barnes’ work which I saw in the exhibition “Dark Matter” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. There is another piece that I saw in Miami where he took the patterns he photographed in starlings and applied it to a multi-media piece in the form of a light box that framed a moving “painting” of the birds. It was really elegant and beautiful, I wish I could find it on the web to post a video.
But here is an unrelated video of starlings moving in unison to rebuff an attack from a falcon: