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art . biotech . performance

The Decelerator - Real Slow Motion

"The decelerator" designed by German artist Lorenz Potthast is a helmet made with reflective metal, aiming to provide total detachment from reality. The helmet does not generate a virtual or augmented reality, but instead changes the temporal perception of what is happening outside: it gives the user a "slow motion" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:14 AM - Mar 25/2013
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Cipher - A Macro Wiev Of Micro

Bacteria, beings measuring just a thousandth of a millimetre across, are the most widespread organisms on Earth. They are everywhere and can survive in extreme conditions. They mutate, adapt and seem able to communicate to collectively carry out actions that are not possible for a single bacterium acting alone ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:30 PM - Feb 28/2013
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I Am A Camera - Very Intimate Pictures

Luke Evans and Josh Lake have created intriguing process-based photographs by turning their bodies into "cameras." Both ingested 35mm photographic film slides and allowed their natural bodily functions to do the rest of the work as the film travelled through their digestive systems. After expelling the film in a dark room it was fixed using standard photographic techniques ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:10 AM - Jan 22/2013
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Communicating Bacteria Dress, bacterial social design

chiara ciociola, Alex May, John Park, Paul Simon, Anna Domitriu, Communicating Bacteria, Communicating_Bacteria_Anna_Domitriu.jpg

"Com- municating Bacteria" is an installation inspired by biological research on the flow of communication between bacteria. It is the result of a collaboration between the artist Anna Domitriu, (for a long time engaged in research on microbiology and collaborative practices) the microbiologists Paul Simon and John Park, and the video artist Alex May. The communication within the bacterial colonies is critical for ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:12 PM - Mar 21/2012
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Mechanical Tumor, how to feel the CPU stress

Mechanical Tumor, Mio I-zawa, mechanical_tumors.jpg

All people who have a digitally related job tend to develop a unique relationship with their computer. The machine is often humanized and referred to as a living creature. Depending on the day it could be a "good girl" who is in perfect shape and behaving properly, or a bad boy who doesn't want to work. The computer suffers imaginary illnesses as well. In the world of interactive media artist Mio I-zawa ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:57 PM - Feb 9/2011
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art . biotech . preservation

Modern Fossil - Fossilization now

Modern Fossil, Chistopher Locke, modern_fossil.jpg

Sometimes they have evolved. Sometimes they have only appeared briefly and then mysteriously lost all their functionality and appeal. Obsolete technological objects, once cutting-edge, turn into modern fossils in the hands of Chistopher Locke. With a special technique, a mold made of a concrete-like mixture similar to real fossil stone, the phone becomes a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - Jul 16/2010
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art . biotech . robot . science

Propagations, light robots as cellular automata

Propagations, Leo Nunez, leo_nunez_propagations.jpg

The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of "intelligence". So "organic" qualities are not yet generally associated with digital machines. Cellular automata (a grid of cells ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:32 PM - Feb 15/2010
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Tardigotchi, augmented virtuality

S.W.A.M.P., Tardigotchi, tardigotchi.jpg

Affection for living creatures has been widely exploited in video games. From the early abstract cellular automata, through to the seminal "Little Computer People" video game (1985), the mass popularity of Tamagotchi in the nineties, and the latest wave of the Nintendo DS "Pets" series, our protective instincts ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:16 PM - Oct 6/2009
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Common Flowers, treating the genetic manipulation as common

Common Flowers, Shiho Fukuhara, Georg Tremmel, common_flowers.jpg

If more and more of the flowers we buy at florist are cloned and if food is less and less spottable as genetically manipulated, we are facing times when the intervention with the dna of different living organisms will be considered as pop culture. Common Flowers by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel is a peculiar art project using genetic engineering ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:47 AM - Jun 26/2009
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Digestive Table, eating your leftovers so you don't have to

Amy Youngs, Digestive Table, digestive_table.jpg

Have you ever wondered what to do with your leftover food scraps from dinner? You usually have two options: 1) Throw them in the garbage or 2) Find somewhere to compost. Examining this dilemma from a conceptual art perspective, Ohio-based artist, Amy Youngs has created the "Digestive Table". The project attempts to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:23 PM - Jan 28/2009
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biotech . book . science

edited by Beatriz da Costa, Kavita Philip - Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience

Beatriz da Costa, Kavita Philip, Tactical Biopolitics Art, Activism, and Technoscience, The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262042499, tactical_biopolitics.jpg

The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262042499, U.S.A., 2008, English
As the essays in Tactical Biopolitics discuss at length, techno-scientific innovations have increasingly become subject to ongoing controversies through entanglements with corporate capital, ecologies, population health, identity politics and food production. Originally developed from a conference called ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:40 PM - Jan 22/2009
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art . biotech . interactive . media . science . visual

Amalgus Cycle Process1, digital genesis

Laura Zajac, Amalgus Cycle, amalgus_cycle_process1.jpg

Amalgus Cycle by Laura Zajac is an environment made up of parasitic processes triggered by organic inputs, which permeate and interconnect with organics and non-organics entities, through digital encoding, in a self-sufficient and finite mode. Process1 is actually the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:25 PM - Apr 1/2008
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art . biotech . music . science . sound

Akousmaflore, music reactive plants

Akousmaflore, Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre, Anais met den Ancxt, akousmaflore.jpg

The image of a fairy-tale landscape where plants welcome visitors with sounds and songs is a recurring element in literature, particularly in poetry. It's a fascination that has seduced the art world, too, where, melting with technologies, has encouraged the birth of a new genre: nature-themed interactive ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Jan 7/2008
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art . biotech . interactive . media . science . tv

'Feed: interactive installation to show how life is fed by media

According to Pier Luigi Capucci, nowadays the relationship between arts and life follows two different paths. The first and more ancient is deep-rooted in the organic matter and is inspired by scientific disciplines: biology, biotechnology and genetic. The second path, more recent, comes from different ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:11 PM - Nov 27/2007
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EarthSpeaker, nocturnal audio sculptures

Jeff Feddersen, EarthSpeaker, earth_speaker.jpg

Jeff Feddersen, author of EarthSpeaker, is an artist with a well rounded background, mainly specialised on the dynamics (nowadays pretty blended) between music and informatics. His favourite subjects of research are nature and the technologies ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:57 PM - Aug 24/2007
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Deaf 2007, Interact or Die! report

Deaf, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, 2007, deaf07_report.jpg

Check the DEAF photo set here
Deaf (Dutch Electronic Art Festival) has always been different from the other festivals, with a long time experience (The organizing institution V2_ celebrated 25 years of activity) investigating hot topics in a festival form. Being held in a condensed space, the 2007 edition has been characterized by a huge ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:37 PM - May 16/2007
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art . biotech . mobile . net . robot

Independent Robotic Community, social network for robots and humans

Ricardo Iglesias, Gerald Kogler, Independent Robotic Community, independent_robotic_community.jpg

In a special edition of El Pais Digital reporting the Arco festival in 2001, the Spanish artist Ricardo Iglesias, one of the net art pioneers in his country, said that nothing or almost nothing ("only cliché") can be said about net art in five or six lines. However he mentioned a series of isolated topics that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Mar 7/2007
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art . biotech . code . hacktivism

Dna, exposing your inner code

The goal of DNA by Marco VIllani is a reflection on the concept of identity, meant as a synthesis of a relationship in which symbolic, biological and existential systems converge. His privacy idea equals to total transparency. Through the analysis of his own chromosome profile, the artist highlights the lack of a general definition of the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:29 AM - Oct 31/2006
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BrainWaves, neural sounds

BrainWaves, Georgia Tech University, brainwaves.jpg

BrainWaves is a project of complex systems' data representation, like the human brain, developed at the Georgia Tech University by the students of neural engineering (prof. Steve Potter). The experiment is based upon the application of some pattern recognition techniques (through these techniques data - or patterns - are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:43 PM - Sep 21/2006
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Naturalis Electronica, Interferenze festival report

Naturalis Electronica, Interferenze festival 2006,interferenze_2006_report.jpg

Digital and organic are never antonyms at Interferenze, the annual festival of new arts taking place in San Martino Valle Caudina (Italy). In the middle of a beautiful chestnut trees forest the 2006 edition lead the young local enthusiastic curator crew to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:42 AM - Aug 29/2006
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art . biotech . media . software

Cardiomorphologies, the body as an instrument

cardiomorphologies, George Khut, cardiomorphologies.jpg

George Khut is an artist working in the area of immersive and interactive installation environments. His research focuses on the development of interactive sound and video environments where users experience and learn to influencial aspects of their own psycho-physiological processes by reckoning ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:15 PM - Aug 16/2006
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Interferenze 2006, Naturalis Electronica

How rooted in their own territory are usually new media arts festival? The italian Interferenze is year after year pushing on their unique location (in the middle of the mountains of Partenio) to seamlessy integrate digital culture with its own natural ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:42 PM - Aug 4/2006
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Autoinducer_Ph (Cross Cultural Chemistry)

The idea of making art with living system is not new - you might ever consider a garden to be biological art. What is new is the degree of control over the biological systems and materials that contemporary art offers us. The aim of some net.art projects, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:07 PM - May 3/2006
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art . biotech . book

(edited and curated by) Dmitry Bulatov - Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture

Dmitry Bulatov, Biomediale Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture, Yantarny Skaz, ISBN 5740608537, biomediale.jpg

book - The National Publishing House "Yantarny Skaz" - ISBN 5740608537
In order to find its autonomy, Bio Art (a term described by Jens Hauser, curator of the "L'Art Biotech" exhibition, as an "etymological disgrace") is passing through the necessary evolutionary phases towards a complete definition, conquering a conceptual autonomy ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Dec 28/2005
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edited by Marquard Smith - Stelarc : The Monograph

book - The MIT Press - ISBN 0262195186
The body's evolution, from an outer world's atavistic interface to an over-stimulated multisensorial apparatus, has been a huge research field from the early nineties. The body's mutation, in fact, is central in our imaginary, and it conceptually comes from the unstoppable ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Nov 30/2005
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