Douglas Easterly. 2004. Bio-Fi: inverse biotelemetry projects. In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 182-183. DOI=10.1145/1027527.1027568 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027568 Bio-Fi is a collection of art projects undertaken by S.W.A.M.P. (Studies of Work Atmospheres and Mass Production), collaborative art projects by Douglas Easterly and Matt Kenyon. S.W.A.M.P. projects attempt to find creative expression within elements of culture that are inherently counter-creative. The Bio-Fi series utilizes physical computing technology to access patterns and relationships surrounding a corporation, that couldn't be seen using any other medium. The field of 'biotelemetry' researches ways of gathering vital physiological data from living organisms through transponders (worn or implanted), which relay information to remote hardware [1]. With all biotelemetric applications, it is integral that the transponder-bearing subject is a synecdoche for its larger social group. In this respect, Bio-Fi projects are a sort of 'inverse-biotelemetry'. Test subjects are not released into a natural environment, but trapped within a synthetic environment whose conditions are tempered by various systems of information: Wi-Fi signals are like water, information mined from the internet is food, and electronic pulses become sunlight.

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