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New media artists Dr Andrew Burrell and Dr Trish Adams demonstrate the innovative possibilities when science, technology and art collide through this online interactive environment in Second Life, inspired by early scientific understanding of honey bee behaviour.

A series of interfaces link the virtual and real worlds, allowing audiences to influence outcomes.

Bees communicate, their hives are complex systems, they are essential to healthy life cyclesand they may be dying out, Dr Adams said. What better metaphor could we have found to communicate subtle messages within our art?

- reporter Brooke Conrad

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Science & Technology

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• National
• Science
• Week
• Exposed
• mellifera
• virtual
• bees