biology
We the Bacteria – Notes Toward Biotic Architecture
Rethinking architecture through the lens of microbes, arguing bacteria are the true builders. This book traces 10,000 years of human-microbe entanglements to challenge the sterile, antibiotic philosophy of modern design.
SlimeMoldCrypt – Security as a biological process
A speculative device that reimagines security as a biological process using a single-celled slime mold, as an unpredictable and dynamic encryption engine.
Ipseria – Cave of intelligent slime
Ipseria is a series of works that explore blending of realities and deconstruction and rewriting of narratives. By deploying meta-surgical method, her work serves as a scalpel to dissect anthropocentrism where the the binary of human relationships...
Brain Processing Unit – Artificial brain tissue APIs
Brain Processing Unit explores the adaptation of artificial brain tissues alongside custom electronics to stimulate, analyze data, and develop the necessary APIs, networks, and other interface technologies required for these operations.
Non-Fungible Plants – NFP.garden
'Grown’ by Cyrus Clarke, Non-Fungible Plants (NFPs) are living plants with data encoded within their DNA. Sitting at the junction of art, technology and nature, Non-Fungible Plants utilise cutting edge synthetic biology techniques to encode digita...
Heavens – A myth, survivalist dream, and the end of (this) history
Heavens is a moving-image work and installation created using planetarium projection methods to overlay planetary footage with deep sea imagery, looking at deep space to see deep into the ocean.
CMD: Experiment in bio-algorithmic politics
Created by Michael Sedbon, 'CMD' is an apparatus designed to explore how our technologies and ecosystems interact and what narratives and politics do they serve. The project questions what sort of ecological and social logic should be implemented ...
Prélude in ACGT – Sonification of personal (DNA) data
Created by Pierry Jaquillard at ECAL (Media and Interaction Design Unit), Prélude in ACGT is collection of tools that explore the relationship between music and biology. The project uses Pierry's own DNA (chromosome 1 to 22) and converts it into m...
Genesis of a Microbial Skin – Beehives designed for urban environments
Created by AnneMarie Maes, Genesis of a Microbial Skin is a mixed media installations and a research project exploring the idea of Intelligent Beehives with a focus on smart materials, in particular microbial skin. The project is about predominant...
Microbial Design Studio – Machine to design, culture, and test genetically modified organisms
Created by Mike Hogan, Karen Hogan and Orkan Telhan, 'Microbial Design Studio' is a countertop biofabrication machine that brings together the capabilities of a biology wetlab into a single inexpensive piece of hardware to design, culture, and tes...
Do Not Try This at Home – Josiah Zayner hacks his stomach
One of the most recognized faces in biohacking, Josiah Zayner is the focus of the most recent edition of the New York Times’ Op-Docs series. “Gut Hack” chronicles his quest to alleviate his lifelong abdominal problems by killing the bacteria in hi...
Gutfather – Capsule to transfer “Abdominal Feeling”
Created by Stefan Schwabe in collaboration with Fraunhofer CeRRI and Sebastian Kletzander, Gutfather is a speculative design project comprising a capsule that traverses the human organism and changes its shape through the influence of microbes unt...
Hybrid Forms: New Growth / Exploration of morphogenesis by Andy Lomas
Following from the Morphogenetic Creations we covered on CAN some months ago , Hybrid Forms: New Growth is the latest in the series of "Cellular Forms: an Artistic Exploration of Morphogenesis" research work by Andy Lomas.
bioLogic – Living nanoactuators yield interfaces that are grown, not manufactured
Created by the MIT Media Lab' Tangible Media Group, bioLogic project explores opportunities around developing new forms of interface using biology.
Living Mushtari – 3d-printed and generatively grown microbial factory
Developed at the MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter group, Living Mushtari is a 3D printed wearable with 58 meters of internal fluid channels designed to function as a wearable microbial factory that uses synthetic microorganisms to convert sunlight ...
Morphogenetic Creations by Andy Lomas
Morphogenetic Creations is a collection of works that explore the nature of complex forms that can be produced by digital simulation of growth systems.
The Kernels of Chimaera – Living Artefacts
A chamber that maintains the growth of a living material and performs an automated production of these into hybrid living artefacts.
Mycelium – Fungal hyphae growth simulation
Mycelium is a simulation of fungal hyphae growth using images as food, created by Ryan Alexander.
