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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. **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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 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:** 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. 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. 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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 Courtesy of the Artist 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. 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.

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. +//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.  
-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 #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> 
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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. 
 +<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.
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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. 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// 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. //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.
-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 #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**  **IGB Research** 
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 Courtesy of the Artist Courtesy of the Artist
  
-//Bacterial Mantarey// is a biofilm, constructed by bacteria 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.+//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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 Courtesy of the Artist in collaboration with laboratory of chemical engineering at VUB Brussels  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. All samples are collected in the Urban Bee Lab, AnneMarie Maes her apiary and rooftop garden laboratory in the centre of 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> 
  
  
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