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 For the Gulbenkian exhibition, I would like to focus on <hi #ffaec9>the biofilm as a city and the city as a biofilm</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.  Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do.
+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. <hi #ffaec9>Biofilm formation is a cooperative group behaviour</hi> 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.  Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do.
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 **Bacterial Mantarey:** sculpture in glassbox; biofilm, bioplastics, hemp. Pedestal in metal - openstructures - 65 x 65 x 90cmH.
 __description:__ a fungal biofilm (sculpture material is bioplastic with ground coffee and reinforced with hemp threads. The piece is ondulated and measures ± 65cm x 65cm. I will present it in a glassbox on a metal pedestal (H  90cm).It looks like the topographical representation of a green city.
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 **Alien Intelligence:** Proboscis, Mentha, Scopae - B/W Archival prints, total 215H x 245W, presented on a wooden structure of 4cm x4cm fixed to the wall.
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 **Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive (large model):** sculpture, electronics, solar panel; presented in glass box of 50 x 50 x 50 on a metal openstructures pedestal (total H 175cm H x 50W x 50D).
-The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive is a bio-art installation on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity. Bees are bio-indicators. They reflect the health of their surrounding ecosystem (in our case the city) as well as the cumulative effects of different pollutants. In many industrialized nations bee colonies are threatened. Pesticides and parasites are among the main factors, but equally worrisome is air pollution and the compromised state of the bees’ foraging fields.
+The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive is a research project on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity related to urban environments.
-//The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive// is a radically new beehive designed for urban environments, offering a shelter to the threatened swarming bee colonies. The IGB aims to support the bees in their pollinating tasks and as such protect the biodiversity of the bees' foraging fields. The IGB has also been a starting point for exploring possible futures through artistic research on materials science and biotechnology.
+Honeybees are bio-indicators. They reflect the health of their surrounding ecosystem as well as the cumulative effects of different pollutants. They are the canaries in the coalmine.
-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. It tackles a new challenging application domain where a collaboration between human and non-human actors is necessary to maintain the resilience of the system.
+To support the disappearing bee colonies, I developed the Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive, a metabolic sculpture with a double goal: at one hand it offers a safe and natural refuge for city honeybees, and at the other hand it reflects the pollution of the environment round the beehive. The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive project is an ongoing experiment with smart materials and green technology. Honeybees become particle transmitters and bacteria become bioluminiscent sensors. These organisms become interfaces to inform us about the health status of our environment. They become living monitoring technology.
+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:** small square table (75 x 75 x 75, glass top) with results of the Intelligent Guerilla Beehive research (3D printed skeleton, small 3D hive with bacteria, other 3D prints, e.g. for skin (turtle)
+**IGB additional installation:** small square table (75 x 75 x 75, glass top) with results of the Intelligent Guerilla Beehive research (3D printed skeleton, small 3D hive with bacteria, other 3D prints, e.g. for skin (turtle), square petri's (Modulor) with samples cellulose+chitin, skins, plastics, duratrans ...
+**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,  and visual qualities as transparancy, translucense, shininess... The expressive-sensory dimension can be inherent to a material, or can be designed into the material.
+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: 1 is 162W x 215H and the 2 others are 80W x 80H.
 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.
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+=====zaalteksten MAAT=====
+**BEE AGENCY**
+Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment
+**The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive**
+-ongoing
+sculpture; bee colony, electronics, solar panel, smart materials, bacteria
+Dimensions 175 x 50 x 50
+Courtesy of the Artist
+//The Intelligent Guerilla Beehive// (IGB) is a bio-art installation on the edge of art and science. It evokes issues of sustainability and biodiversity, giving viewers an artistic experience of AnneMarie Maes her ongoing research related to the disappearance of the honeybees.
+<hi #efe4B0>[extra material: Bees are bio-indicators. They reflect the health of their surrounding ecosystem as well as the cumulative effects of different pollutants. In many industrialized nations bee colonies are threatened. Pesticides and parasites are among the main factors, but equally worrisome is air pollution and the compromised state of the bees’ foraging fields.]</hi>
+  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.
+<hi #efe4B0>[extra material: The IGB aims to support the bees in their pollinating tasks and as such protect the biodiversity of the bees' foraging fields. It tackles a new challenging application domain where a collaboration between human and non-human actors is necessary to maintain the resilience of the system. ]</hi>
+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.
+**Variation Games**
+-2018
+video account of 1 year intensive bee monitoring inside the beehive,  21’50”
+Courtesy of the Artist
+//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.
+<hi #efe4B0>[extra material: The video is a condensed edit of a year-long audiovisual observation of the behaviour of a honeybee colony in the private environment of their refuge. The recordings are made with an infrared camera and contact microphones inside the beehive. The content of this video focuses on the first 6 weeks of the observation, when the bees start the building of their nest. The images show how they first scan the empty space and detect all foreign objects (in this case paper pasted on the back of the hive), which they propolize and eventually tear down, thus appropriating their territory. They start organizing their activities to design the locus as their home. The images demonstrate and reveal decision-making, networking, collaboration and collective intelligence.]</hi>
+**IGB Research**
+- ongoing
+Results of the Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive Research
+Dimensions 100 x 60 x 60
+Courtesy of the Artist
+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, and it has lead to the speculative bio-art project The Intelligent Guerrilla Beehive.  The goal is to provide a biological skin for a beehive, a skin that functions as an interface to compute and communicate the outer environmental data and the internal beehive signals. A bacterial biofilm grows as a pollution sensor on the outer shell of the beehive, at the inside of the nest symbiotic bacteria strenghten the bees’ microbiome and support them in their fight against the Varroa mite.
+**Bacterial Mantarey**
+Year 2018
+Bacterial biofilm, bioplastics, ground coffee, hemp
+(research for a bacterial pollution sensor)
+Dimensions 120 x 65 x 65
+Courtesy of the Artist
+//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.
+**Alien Intelligence**
+-ongoing
+SEM photography (Scanning Electron Micrograph), organic samples of honeybees and pollen
+Various dimensions
+Courtesy of the Artist in collaboration with laboratory of chemical engineering at VUB Brussels
+//Alien Intelligence// is a series of Scanning Electron Micrographs in which honeybees are studied as technological instruments. In the photos, the sensorial bodyparts (e.g. the bodyhairs) are extremely magnified and are compared to the functionalities of electrical sensors. The attraction between the electromagnetic loaded fur of the insect and the tiny pollen grains of the flowers functions as a magnet. The photographs are extremely detailed and show us the interaction in a formal and aesthetical approach. <hi #efe4B0>[extra: All samples are collected in the Urban Bee Lab, AnneMarie Maes her apiary and rooftop garden laboratory in the centre of Brussels.]</hi>