Ant Ballet

Ant Ballet is a 2-year investigation into the parallels between human and ant communication which culminated in the world’s first ballet to exclusively feature ants.

Through use of synthesised pheromones (Z9:16 Ald Hexadecenal), a robotic arm lays trails which cause ants to move in a different way to their natural foraging behaviour.

The Ant Ballet will be installed in London Zoo’s BUGS zone from the 30th November 2011, and in 2012 will be touring Brazil and the US.

More information coming soon.

Project credits

Design, art direction, programming, video, music by Ollie Palmer

This project was made possible thanks to
The Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL Prof. Stephen Gage, Ruairi Glynn and Godofredo Pereira / Helen Floate and Heechan Park | Pestival – Bridget Nicholls // Zoological Society London – Dr. Seirian Sumner | UCL Organic Chemistry – Prof. Jim Anderson and Jack Bestwick | Universita Autonoma Barcelona – Xavier Espadaler | La familias Colet-Castaño y Prieto-Botella | My family (in particular Tessa Young)

Licensing

Ant Ballet by Ollie Palmer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. This essentially means that you can repost and display the video it where you like, as long as it is attributed back to the original author and linked to this site. If you are in any doubt, or would like to let Ollie know you’ve used the video somewhere, please just drop him an email!

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