Alibi

Nathan Yao Guo, Muchen Zhang 
Installation, 2016
Interface Cultures 

Alibi speculates a product-based story rewinding a fictional history about a healthcare company named Chin-Li. As a century of a legend, the company could be traced back in the year of 1916, a group from the movement of Chinese Labour Corps came into France and Britain and started the treatment for the animal in military service. Chin-Li, meaning Koi carp, soon became their symbol. After the rise and fall, in 1986, they finally found the company named as Chin-Li. 

In order to celebrate the 30 years, Chin-Li collaborates with the industrial robotic arm company and releases the latest product called Alibi, a special edition of the previous successful product that was designed 30 years ago. It attaches a fish container to the tip of the robotic arm and enables it with an outer space exercise experience taking advantage of the precise tail waving, sophisticated acceleration, and motion control. It is an ideal therapy for the fish who has either tail injury, aging sickness, or the suffer from long term tedious transportation. Alibi will acquire the historical swimming data tailors for the fish or download from our cloud, where thousands of researchers our customers shared their therapy data.

Exhibition at: IC at ars electronica 2016, Linz, Austria