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							BabyLove Participants: • Shu Lea Cheang Shu Lea Cheang will discuss "BabyLove," the second installment of her "Locker Baby Project," in the context of her work. "BabyLove," currently on view at the Chelsea Art Museum, is a mobile wifi installation that consists of 6 large size teacups -- auto-mobile units modeled after teacup rides found on old-time playgrounds -- with 6 "clone babies." The clone babies, inspired by Ryu Murakami's novel Coin Locker Babies, are each adorned with a locker key, an LED display with a random locker number and wifi connection. Love songs uploaded by the public via the Web are coded as "memory and emotion" (ME) data for the clone babies and can be retrieved and jumbled by museum visitors who take a teacup ride with the baby clones. Navigating the teacup, visitors shuffle and rearrange the love songs in the baby engine through their choice of direction and the variation of speed. Mixing nostalgia for a seemingly simpler age with network technologies, "BabyLove" explores the Internet's impact on cultural practices. Related links: talk about it in our forum \| Watch Webcast

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