SWARM was an interactive installation inspired by some of the current thoughts about biological machines and ‘hive mind’. Briefly, the concept of hive mind is based on the premise that an insect colony is not merely the analogue of an organism, but is an organism, 20,000 insects united and behaving like a unitary whole, “maintaining its identity in space, resisting dissolution ...neither a thing nor a concept, but a continual flux or process” (Morton Wheeler, “The Ant Colony as an Organism”, 1911).

3 larger than life-sized hives were laid out in the gallery, on first sight these appear normal garden hives, but on closer inspection it is clear that they have been treated so that they have the plastic-coated surface associated with computers. Each hive houses images in a different way.