Taliana Vyaltseva (Brig)
Bee-Human-Net
Interactive installation (epoxy resin, silicone, polypropylene, pneumatics)
2025
Bee-Human-Net aims to create a universal language that can be understood by both bees and humans — a language of frequencies and oscillations. The installation acts as a converter that transforms mechanical signals coming from people into audio feedback, which is then transmitted further to a collective system resembling a beehive, thus allowing visitors to become part of an artificial hive. To do this, pull the weight hanging from the pipe to start the pendulum and wait for the synchronization to happen.
Nature is inherently self-organizing, meaning that a great quantity of individual elements are able to merge together into one through an internal coordination. Beehives and human collectives are two manifestations of this universal logic, which exists across species, but is united by universal rhythms.
A swarm of bees is a live network in which vibrations and chemical signals generate a synchronized structure capable of adapting to external conditions. Human society is similar – it does not have centralized governance, but constantly exchanges signals (words, body language and digital information) to form collective patterns of behaviour.
The artist uses Kuramoto’s principle of universal synchronization, which postulates that any decentralized dynamic system can be viewed as a set of globally coupled oscillators. This installation attempts to create a cooperative language that connects humans to a swarm of bees.
Bee-Human-Net
Interactive installation (epoxy resin, silicone, polypropylene, pneumatics)
2025
Bee-Human-Net aims to create a universal language that can be understood by both bees and humans — a language of frequencies and oscillations. The installation acts as a converter that transforms mechanical signals coming from people into audio feedback, which is then transmitted further to a collective system resembling a beehive, thus allowing visitors to become part of an artificial hive. To do this, pull the weight hanging from the pipe to start the pendulum and wait for the synchronization to happen.
Nature is inherently self-organizing, meaning that a great quantity of individual elements are able to merge together into one through an internal coordination. Beehives and human collectives are two manifestations of this universal logic, which exists across species, but is united by universal rhythms.
A swarm of bees is a live network in which vibrations and chemical signals generate a synchronized structure capable of adapting to external conditions. Human society is similar – it does not have centralized governance, but constantly exchanges signals (words, body language and digital information) to form collective patterns of behaviour.
The artist uses Kuramoto’s principle of universal synchronization, which postulates that any decentralized dynamic system can be viewed as a set of globally coupled oscillators. This installation attempts to create a cooperative language that connects humans to a swarm of bees.