The Electric Scrying Pool

“The Electric Scrying Pool” explores the mystical nature of technology in the modern era. As people interact with the installation, asking the scrying pool about their future, they see how their fortune melds with those around them.

The scrying pool randomly selects and mixes oracle messages, emerging from words projected onto a pool with clear resin heads.  Expressions were collected from online oracles on the Internet, and then randomly combined into Pythian messages and projected using a Flash animation.

EventPeople Doing Strange Things with Electricity IIILocation911 Media Arts CenterYear2008Size3.5' diameter, 4' tallCreated byShelly FarnhamMaterialsResin, acrylic, projector, flash animation