One artist that caught my eye was Roy Lichtenstein, a man who created comic book-inspired works on various mediums. Lichtenstein’s work is considered to be some of the earliest examples of pop art. I studied his piece ‘Whaam!’, which was inspired from an image in DC Comic’s All-American Men of War, and is also arguably one of Lichtenstein’s most well-known and famous pieces of work. The art piece utilizes bold outlines and bright pops of color, along with the onomonopia word ‘Whaam!’, to further remind us of the piece’s comic book roots.

Another artist that I became interested in through the reading was Eduardo Kac’s works. In his work ‘Uirapuru’, Kac made a robotic fish, named after legend about a bird who’s singing was so beautiful that all the animals would stop and listen to it’s song. The fish itself flies over a forest and sings to the land, like the bird in the tale. The fish excises in both the physical and virtual. The telerobotic Uiripuru can be controlled either through the web, or from local controls. When controlled within local distance, people control the fish within a small gallery. The movements are tracked and then sent to the virtual version of the fish, which was streamed live on the internet.