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An ecosystem of worms, sowbugs, plants and bacteria live and eat at this table. They are a part of the digestive system that starts with a person discarding food leftovers and shredded paper into the portal at the top. The bacteria and sowbugs begin breaking down the waste and the worms soon join in to further digest it into a rich compost that sprinkles out of the bottom of the fabric bag that hangs beneath the table. This compost is used as a fertilizer…
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Series of segments from biological art, bioart. Eduardo Kac, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, c-lab, Adam Zaretsky Martha De Menezes, George Gessert, Joe Davis and Eduard Steichen
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"I installed an ant colony inside my scanner five years ago. I scanned the nest each week..." >This short film is an exploration of the aesthetic of life and degradation. Five years ago, I installed an ant colony inside my old scanner that allowed me to scan in high definition this ever evolving microcosm (animal, vegetable and mineral). The resulting clip is a close-up examination of how these tiny beings live in this unique ant farm. I observed…
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This interactive installation offers human participants an opportunity to tune into - and bodily experience - the vibrations made by tiny, soil-dwelling beings. Humans continue to be interested in detecting signals of extra-terrestrial life in outer space, but have overlooked the intra-terrestrial signals of life – the worms and insects that sustain our own terrestrial existence. This highly amplified environment allows humans a chance to appreciate…
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Truce is an interactive sound installation created by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni at the Spark Festival 2009, Minneapolis USA. In their seminal paper "Flying in Tune: Sexual recognition in mosquitoes", Gabrielle Gibson and and Ian Russel from the University of Greenwich discovered an inspiring phenomenon: male mosquitoes change their buzzing frequency to match that of a female mosquito. This synchronization brings their wing beats to within a millisecond…
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