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For the Gulbenkian exhibition, I would like to focus on <hi # | For the Gulbenkian exhibition, I would like to focus on <hi # | ||
- | A biofilm is an association of micro-organisms in which microbial cells adhere to each other on a living or non-living surface within a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substance. Biofilm formation is a cooperative group behaviour that involves bacterial populations living embedded in a self-produced extracellular matrix. The bacteria communicate via quorum sensing (a system of stimuli and response), a cell to cell communication mechanism that synchronizes gene expression in response to population cell density. | + | A biofilm is an association of micro-organisms in which microbial cells adhere to each other on a living or non-living surface within a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substance. |
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This long-term project has been an incredible source of inspiration for artistic research into issues of ecology, architecture and social sustainability of urban environments. The results are giving the public an artistic experience of this ongoing research, related to changing environments. | This long-term project has been an incredible source of inspiration for artistic research into issues of ecology, architecture and social sustainability of urban environments. The results are giving the public an artistic experience of this ongoing research, related to changing environments. | ||
- | **IGB additional installation: | + | **IGB additional installation: |
- | + | **The sensory dimension of materials** | |
- | + | Transmutation of the characteristics and properties of materials, due to -among other things- bacteria (biofilms). | |
- | __presentation:__ a space of 400cm wide by 300cm high and 400cm deep, at least 1 side a wall. Wall can be painted in specific color. | + | Material qualities = the qualities that influence the way we experience a material and collect sensory information from it, e.g. warm or cold, heavy or light, |
+ | The material communicates ideas and approaches, it forces us to think, feel and act in certain ways; it facilitates and improves functionality and use. (cfr. Domus 1027, Sept.2018 - p119) | ||
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+ | presentation:** a space of 400cm wide by 300cm high and 400cm deep, at least 1 side a wall. Wall can be painted in specific color. | ||
B/W Archival prints are existing. They need to be presented on a wooden structure (painted black) on the wall, fixed with velcro. There are 3 photographs: | B/W Archival prints are existing. They need to be presented on a wooden structure (painted black) on the wall, fixed with velcro. There are 3 photographs: | ||
Wooden structure had to be made and fixed to the wall. | Wooden structure had to be made and fixed to the wall. | ||
IGB and research items existing. All openstructures pedestals existing. Only thing to be made is glass plate 8mm x 75cm x 75cm. | IGB and research items existing. All openstructures pedestals existing. Only thing to be made is glass plate 8mm x 75cm x 75cm. | ||
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+ | **BEE AGENCY** | ||
+ | Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment | ||
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+ | **The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive** | ||
+ | 2016-ongoing | ||
+ | sculpture; bee colony, electronics, | ||
+ | Dimensions 175 x 50 x 50 | ||
+ | Courtesy of the Artist | ||
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+ | //The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive// (IGB) is a bio-art installation on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity, | ||
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+ | The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is a radically new beehive. At one hand it offers a safe refuge for city honeybees, and at the other hand is is a biosensor that interacts with the environment and that measures the pollution of the foraging fields around the beehive. | ||
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+ | Navigating between a blueprint and a proof of concept, the Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is an artifact for the future, a fragment of a world to come. | ||
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+ | **Variation Games** | ||
+ | 2017-2018 | ||
+ | video account of 1 year intensive bee monitoring inside the beehive, | ||
+ | Courtesy of the Artist | ||
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+ | //Variation Games// are games where the set of rules is constantly adapted by the players. The bees act as transmitters in an interconnected web of bio-intelligent agents. They construct a bioremedial beehive and create a symbiotic environment for exchange with specific bacteria. They are sentient, perceptive; they see, feel, navigate and communicate. They fabricate and dance, they collect and build, they perform and reproduce. The result of this collaboration is a biotechnological device: the Intelligent Guerilla Beehive. The video throws the viewer out of his comfort-bee-zone and shows the colony in action from an unusual point of view. The soundtrack is based upon recordings made in the beehive. | ||
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+ | **IGB Research** | ||
+ | 2016 - ongoing | ||
+ | Results of the Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive Research | ||
+ | Dimensions 100 x 60 x 60 | ||
+ | Courtesy of the Artist | ||
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+ | In collaborating with biologists and engineers AnneMarie Maes has been re-conceptualizing what a beehive is and what it can be. This has also been a starting point for exploring possible futures through artistic research on materials science and biotechnology, | ||
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+ | **Bacterial Mantarey** | ||
+ | Year 2018 | ||
+ | Bacterial biofilm, bioplastics, | ||
+ | (research for a bacterial pollution sensor) | ||
+ | Dimensions 120 x 65 x 65 | ||
+ | Courtesy of the Artist | ||
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+ | //Bacterial Mantarey// is a biofilm, constructed by an association of micro-organisms that adhere to each other on a living or non-living surface. On microscopic level, we discover a 3D space, a living skeletal architecture at bacterial scale built by the biofilms’ resident bacteria colony. The bacteria in the biofilm communicate via quorum sensing, a system of stimuli and response. As such, they react on changes in the environment. | ||
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+ | **Alien Intelligence** | ||
+ | 2016-ongoing | ||
+ | SEM photography (Scanning Electron Micrograph), | ||
+ | Various dimensions | ||
+ | Courtesy of the Artist in collaboration with laboratory of chemical engineering at VUB Brussels | ||
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+ | //Alien Intelligence// | ||
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