The Artist's Space is exhibiting The New Normal through June 21, and these two works apparently resonated most with me and my phonecam at the opening last Friday. There are a total of 13 works in the show that use "private information as raw material and subject matter," including interesting stuff by several Eyebeam alums.

° Isolée - Jelly Baby/Fish mp3

Captured on the left are phrases rolling over in Thomson & Craighead's Beacon, which "relays live web searches as they are being made around the world presenting them back in series and at regular intervals as an endless concrete poetry." Check out the online version at automatedbeacon.net, which has been broadcasting since January 1, 2005.

On the right are what look to me like lungfish. Whatever they are, they were definitely creepy/beautiful as part of French industrial designer Mathieu Lehanneur's Local River, which proposes a system for bringing the same aquaponics of tilapia/lettuce farms into the personal kitchens of foodies who are all about hyperlocally grown eats (aka "Locavores"—really.) The other tank had normal-looking fish, one of which had died and was being removed when we showed up—so hot right now. (Maybe fish don't count?) Actually, right now Lehanneur's O Oxygen Generator series is also in MOMA's Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit.

See also: Real photos of the show at The New Normal's Flickr.