You may notice in the video where one of the insulated pipes are labeled CHILLED WATER SUPPLY.
My understanding is that >>if<< the Boiler Room in Doherty Hall was in fact a nuclear power plant using seawater as a coolant,
this is where jellyfish would be traveling through the pipes.
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By projecting a video of jellyfish onto layered plastic drop cloths in this simulation of a nuclear power plant,
I was hoping to create a space where ghosts of the jellyfish that had been trapped and killed had now been set free.
THANK YOU to the following people for their help and generosity:
Sincere gratitude to Martin "Marty" Altschul at CMU for arranging access to the boiler room...
To Greg at the Bellefield Boiler Plant (aka: the Cloud Factory) for explaining where exactly the jellyfish would be sucked into the system of a nuclear power plant...
And to Eugenia Loli-Queru for making her gorgeous video of jellyfish available for use on Vimeo under the Creative Commons license. You may view Drifters of the Deep in its entirety here.