I remember browsing through the programme of the ars electronica exhibition in 2004 and reading the most intriguing title ever for an art piece: Augmented Fish Reality. Five rolling robotic fish-bowl sculptures allowed Siamese fighting fish to use intelligent hardware and software to move their bowls themselves. Seeing the installation made me think a lot about the relevance of augmented reality (a technology i had found super exciting so far without exactly knowing why), the concept of "augmenting" animals and "interacting" with them through technology, new ideas of robotics, etc. But more crucially, it was with that work that I discovered Ken Rinaldo.
Interview by Régine Debatty
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/08/interview-of-ke.php