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GMU:Patterns and techniques of a shared habitat

2021-11-30T10:13:37Z

Carolinagarcia: /* Syllabus */

[[File:shared habits 22.jpg|800px]]

[[:Category:Projektmodul|Projektmodul]] 
''Title (alt):'' Handlungsstrategien und Techniken für ein Shared Habitat 
''Lecturer:'' [[Ursula Damm]] 
''Credits/SWS:'' 18 [[SWS]] 
''Maximum Number of Participants:'' 15 
''Course Language:'' English 
''First meeting:'' 19.10.2021, 9.15 
''Date:'' Tuesday, 9:15 
''Venue:'' '''Seminarraum 214 in der Coudray 11 C''' 

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== Description (EN) ==
"Shared Habitats II" (as an extension and deepening of the Shared Habitats project) understands our habitat as one in which we are not alone: we share it with countless fellow beings near and far, with other living beings, things, machines, and artifacts. Our well-being is built on an atmosphere created over epic periods of time by the action of these beings, which is not divisible but shared destiny.

In the project we align artistic action and ideological reflection with possible new forms of coexistence between human and non-human actors. In experiments, actions, interventions, artifacts, designs will be tried out and evaluated.

In the module we want to produce construction kits, sample catalogs, istallations, manuals, recipes, action plans, apparatuses, game plans or other forms of proposals that help to make our civilization sustainable, thriving and peaceful.

=== Description (DE) ===
Handlungsstrategien und Techniken für ein Shared Habitat

“Shared Habitats II” (als Verlängerung und Vertiefung des Projektes Shared Habitats)versteht unseren Lebensraum als ein Habitat, in dem wir nicht alleine sind: wir teilen es mit unzähligen Wesensgenossen nah und fern, mit anderen Lebewesen, Dingen, Maschinen und Artefakten. Unser Wohlergehen baut auf eine Atmosphäre auf, die über epische Zeiträume durch das Wirken dieser Wesen entstanden ist, die nicht teilbar, sondern gemeinsames Schicksal ist.

Im Projekt orientieren wir künstlerisches Handeln und weltanschauliche Reflektion an möglichen neuen Formen des Zusammenlebens von menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Akteuren. In Experimenten, Aktionen, Eingriffen, Artefakten werden Entwürfe ausprobiert und evaluiert.

Im Modul wollen wir Baukästen, Musterkataloge, Installationen, Handbücher, Rezepte, Aktionspläne, Apparate, Spielpläne oder andere Formen von Vorschlägen produzieren, welche helfen, unsere Zivilisation nachhaltig, gedeihlich und friedvoll zu gestalten.

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== Readings ==
* Anna Tsing: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene ISBN 978-1517902360
* Ursula Damm, Mindaugas Gapsevicius: Shared Habitats ISBN 978-3-8376-5647-3
* Sacha Kagan: Art and Sustainability - Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity ISBN 978-3837618037
* TJ Demos, Ursula Biemann et al.: Along Ecological Lines: Contemporary Art and Climate Crisis ISBN 978-0993219252
* Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind ISBN 978-0226039053
* [https://times-of-waste.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/YVolkart_From-Trash_to_Waste-1.pdf Yvonne Volkart: From Trash to Waste]

== Online materials ==

* [https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/4_Medienkunst_Kybernetike.html Thomas Dreher, Cybernetics...]
* [https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/index.html Thomas Dreher, Intermedia Art]
* [https://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA_Indexe.html Thomas Dreher, History of Computer Art]
* [https://dreher.netzliteratur.net/4_Medienkunst_Text.html Thomas Dreher, Der Beobachter als Akteur in Happenings]
* [https://www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/HvF.htm Heinz von Förster Homepage]
* [http://www.ruderal.com/pdf/ruderalaesthetics.pdf On "Ruderal Aesthetics" by Sarah Cowles]
* [https://monoskop.org/images/3/31/Software_Information_Technology_Its_New_Meaning_for_Art_catalogue.pdf Catalogue of the first Software Art exhibition]
* [https://vimeo.com/453951097 Am Ecology of Mind - Portrait of Gregory Bateson]

== Recommendations ==
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/en/architecture-and-urbanism/chairs/theorie-und-geschichte-der-modernen-architektur/atheo-l/winter-2122/in-search-of-a-pattern-that-connects/ Seminarangebot zu Bateson]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/qisserver/rds?state=verpublish&status=init&vmfile=no&publishid=51744&moduleCall=webInfo&publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung Seminarangebot zu Ökologie]

== Artists ==
* [http://www.hehe.org/projets HeHe]
* [http://www.centerforforcemajeure.org The Harrisons - project Force Majeure]
* [https://www.cohenvanbalen.com/ Revital Cohen Tuur van Balen]
* [https://theharrisonstudio.net/ The Harrisons]
* [https://www.schuylkillcenter.org/art/?page_id=281 Betty Beaumont]
* [https://www.hostprods.net/work Andy Gracie]
* [https://brandonballengee.com/eco-actions Brandon Ballengée's Eco-Actions]
* [https://kow-berlin.com/artists/alice-creischer Alice Creischer]
* [http://www.loisweinberger.net/ Lois Weinberger]
* [http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/ Agnes Denes ]
* [http://zhengbo.org/2015_SM1.html Zheng Bo]
* [http://smitesmits.com/ Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits]
* [http://www.publicamateur.org/?page_id=6 Claire Pentecost]
* [http://www.boehler-orendt.com/ Böhler Orendt]
* [https://martademenezes.com/ Martha de Menezes]
* [https://adelheidmers.org/ Adelheid Mers]
* [http://www.gansterer.org/ Nikolaus Gangsterer]
* [https://ellieirons.com/ Ellie Irons]
* [http://freyaxiaprobst.com/ Freya Probst]

== Institutions ==
* [https://www.multispecies-salon.org/artists/ Mulitspecies Salon]
* [http://www.clui.org/ Center for Landuse Interpretation]
* [https://suespaid.info/curatorial-work/contemporary-arts-center-oh-1999-2002-2012-/ecovention-current-art-to-transform-ecologies-2002-/view/3939623/1/3939631 Sue Spaid Curatorial Work]

== admission requirements / Voraussetzung zur Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ==
Belegung von Werk- und Fachmodulen der Professur, Bewerbung mit Portfolio -> ursula.damm@uni-weimar.de

=== Registration procedure / Anmeldung ===
Please send your application by email with the Subject ''{{PAGENAME}}'' to: ursula.damm (at) uni-weimar.de
* Name, Surname
* program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
* Valid email address @uni-weimar.de (no other mailing addresses will be accepted) [[SCC-Services#E-Mail|Why?]]
* portfolio of your prior works
Sollte es mehr als 15 Bewerber geben, entscheidet die Reihenfolge der Anmeldungen über die Aufnahme in den Kurs

== Evaluation / Geforderte Prüfungsleistung zur Erlangung eines Leistungsnachweises ==
Active participation, presentation, artistic work or videodocumentation of work, text, edits in the wiki.

== Eligible participants / Zielgruppe ==
Graduates enrolled in the Faculties of Media, Kunst & Gestaltung and in the Media Architecture program,
Undergraduates in Media Art & Design

== Syllabus ==
Termine des Semesters
# 19.10.2021: First Meeting, Presentation of Topic
# 26.10.2021: Presentation of Participants
# 02.11.2021: ...
# 07.12.: Presentation by N.N.
# 14.12.: Presentation by N.N.
# 04.01.22: Presentation by N.N.
# 11.01.22: on retreat
# 18.01.22: Presentation by N.N.
# 25.01.22: Presentation by Fabian, Carolina
# 01.02.22: Presentation by Isabella.
# 08.02.22: Presentation by N.N.
There is an excursion planned for 4 days (workshop at Schieferpark) in January (10.1.-14.1.)

== Prior Modules relevant here ==
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Shared_Habitats last semesters module]
* [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Bioart_Linkliste bioart linklist]

== Links ==
* Up to date information in the course's page on the MediaWiki

== People ==
* [[Your name here]]
* [[ Xinyue Yu]]
* [[Timo Bechert]]
* [[Carolina Garcia]]
* [[Nicolas Krewer]]
*[[Mint-Chanitnanth Phadungnanonth]]
*[[Fah - Passion Asasu]]
* [[Isabella Lee Arturo]]
* [[Belcim Yavuz / Wise 21]]
* [[Andrea Geyer]]
* [[Fei ]]
* [[Fabian]]
* [[Betul Peker]]
* [[Martin Müller]]
* [[Juan Rubiano]]

[[Category:WS21]]
[[Category:Projektmodul]]
[[Category:Ursula Damm]]

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-29T11:19:28Z

Carolinagarcia:

'''Symbiosis: a mother diary'''

[[File:vina.png|900px]]

. with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane]

. the project can be visualized in this [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eNFpqSji-8KtDh7gUdgLfYGUsjSz5xGa/view?usp=sharing file]

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|600px]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|600px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

//

'''biolab winter 21/22''' (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-29T11:18:34Z

Carolinagarcia:

'''Symbiosis: a mother diary'''

[[File:vina.png|800px]]

. with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane]

. the project can be visualized in this [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eNFpqSji-8KtDh7gUdgLfYGUsjSz5xGa/view?usp=sharing file]

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|600px]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|600px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

//

'''biolab winter 21/22''' (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-29T11:18:12Z

Carolinagarcia:

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-29T11:16:55Z

Carolinagarcia:

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-29T11:13:28Z

Carolinagarcia:

'''Symbiosis: a mother diary'''

[[File:vina.png|800px]]

with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane] :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|600px]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|600px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

//

'''biolab winter 21/22''' (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

File:Vina.png

2021-11-29T11:12:25Z

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GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T13:03:30Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane] :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|600px]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|600px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T13:03:06Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane] :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|400px]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|400px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T13:02:51Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane] :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[:File:gif vina.gif]]
[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|400px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

File:Gif vina.gif

2021-11-27T13:02:40Z

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GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T13:02:04Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer viviane] :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|400px]]

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|400px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T13:00:21Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

[[File:biolab__.001_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.002_.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.003.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.004.jpeg|700px]]
[[File:biolab__.005.jpeg|700px]]

microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

== '''project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|400px]]

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|400px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-27T12:59:49Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still around us)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

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'''''experiment letter a'''
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.

'''_description
'''

during the first class i felt a bit overwhelmed with so many new informations, and since the beginning i was obsessed with the complexity system and pleasant aesthetics of the slime modes. while the other students were learning about euglena, i was trying to add colors on my experiments and playing with different food configurations.

sometimes my learning process is slow, and i'm trying to respect that. so in this first month i decided to observe the behavior of my 5 experiments (with no intervention) and read + watch videos about it.

'''_experiments
'''

before vs after

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microscope

[[File:bio1.jpg|700px]]
[[File:bio2_.jpg|700px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

0.5 pen

notebook

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

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'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

== '''Project description''' ==

_concept

Symbiosis: a mother diary documents the experience and thoughts of two young women and their slime mold child. The diary will document the growing of Vina Garcia Morais, the slime mold we reproduced, and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). We sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

Being regularly questioned by our families about our plans to have children, specially because our ovules are in their "healthiest phase" at this age we're in, we never know if our ability to take care is something natural of our personalities or if it was imposed on us so we could be better mothers. Considering the diary as a literature genre that gives place to a regular input of honest confessions, we see this medium as an appropriate way to share our thoughts letting it clear that every statement there is profoundly personal and "unfinished".

_relevance

Maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. With this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

_technical aspects:

During the phase of getting to know Vina (our child) we'll try to understand their preferences such as food, music and space preferences. For example, we already know that Vina loves kinder bueno but is not that into broccoli. With these "experiments" we shall observe our own feelings on the process and the discoveries to share them in the diary.

*Slime mode
*Medium plastic dish

*Normal oats
*Gluten-free oats
*Kinder bueno

*1 week
*dark spaces

As we didn't have our previous slime molds, we asked [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Being_a_Unicellular_Organism/Nicolas_Krewer Nicolas] to be our baby's grandfather and give us a bit of his slime mold. Being always so kind, he provided us not only a whole new petri dish full of a living blob but also a dry one that we could bring back to life with water if necessary.

_aesthetic approach:

[[File:biolab_vina_dois.jpg|400px]]

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-11-27 um 09.45.24.png|400px]]

The diary will contain a mixture of Viviane's photographs and Carolina's drawings, both being our point of view about our baby's growth. The journaling experience is going to take place in a period of one week, being this week what we could call the childhood of the slime mold and the moment where we're having our first steps as mothers. During this time we share our duties so each day one of us is responsible for feeding, observing from time to time, documenting and giving attention in general to our blob.

Within the imagetic documentation, we will write down our thoughts and feelings while taking care of Vina.

_references

[https://aihasegawa.info/i-wanna-deliver-a-shark I WANNA DELIVER A SHARK… - Ai Hasegawa]

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2021-11-26T02:19:19Z

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2021-11-26T01:01:49Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation - three weeks experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish

normal oats

gluten-free oats

kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings

(drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T01:00:39Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation of different phases/weeks of the experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish

normal oats

gluten-free oats

kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings

(drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T01:00:10Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

hand-made drawings through observation

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns two - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation of three different phases/weeks of the experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish

normal oats

gluten-free oats

kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings

(drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T00:57:21Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns 2 - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation 3 phases/weeks of a experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish

normal oats

gluten-free oats

kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings

(drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T00:56:41Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns 2 - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation 3 phases/weeks of a experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish

normal oats

gluten-free oats

kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings

(drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T00:55:21Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter a'''
''//////////

.

'''_description
'''

'''_experiments
'''

configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_carolina3.jpg|400px]]

patterns 2 - observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_7.jpg|400px]]

observation on microscope
[[File:biolab_5.jpg|400px]]

observation 3 phases/weeks of a experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

'''_technical description
'''

05 slime mode medium plastic dish

03 food color pigments

normal oats

microscope

'''_aesthetics
'''

.

//////////
'''''experiment letter b'''
''//////////

.

with viviane :::

'''_the question
'''

could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
'''

through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
'''

slime mode medium plastic dish
normal oats
gluten-free oats
kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
'''

the way we express our feelings (drawings + photographs + texts)

GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Carolina Fernandes Garcia Pinto

2021-11-26T00:54:52Z

Carolinagarcia:

biolab winter 21/22 (covid still here)

some thoughts and slow ideas

.

'''start ::: why i'm here
'''

biology was my little big "trauma" on high school. it was the class that i needed to memorize a lot of names - and my memory is quite bad. this weird educational dynamic made me have super bad grades, and because of that i was always afraid of failing the year. for 3 years i was waiting "the call" in december about the professors decision: "ok you didn't have grade enough in biology, but you are a good student. you can continue your studies and don't need to repeat this year ".

my mom is pedagogue, my father is a chemical engineer really into bacterias, and the school was one of the most expensive schools in my city (probably in brazil too). huge privilege. it was a lot of emotional pressure and somehow this insecurity follows me until nowadays. the fear of not being enough, the fear of failing.

but the biology book was my favorite one. it wasn't in a4 format, good quality paper, unique smell, heavy and with a lot of beautiful images.

i decided to take this class to explore what i was always curious in biology: the experimentation, the aesthetics, the connection of thoughts. it's not just a random class, it's personal.

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'''''experiment letter a'''
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'''_description
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'''_experiments
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configuration/net of first experiments
[[File:biolab_carolina_4.jpg|400px]]

patterns one - observation on microscope
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patterns 2 - observation on microscope
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observation on microscope
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observation 3 phases/weeks of a experiment
[[File:biolab_carolina1.jpg|400px]]

'''_technical description
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05 slime mode medium plastic dish
03 food color pigments
normal oats
microscope

'''_aesthetics
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'''''experiment letter b'''
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with viviane :::

'''_the question
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could the maternal bond be fabricated?

maternal bond, biological clock, unconditional love are terms inherently attached to parenthood, especially when talking about the mother-child relationship. with this project we question how much the weight of its terms' meanings is on real feelings - and this almost magical environment created around the idea of motherhood - and how much it is actually related to society laws and social pressure.

'''_description
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through this project we want to document the growing of ''vina garcia morais'', and reflect about this “caring system” that is always expected on us (women). we sign the "family contract" to care, feed, protect and love, putting our efforts to keep them alive and support them in their own journeys.

'''_technical aspects
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slime mode medium plastic dish
normal oats
gluten-free oats
kinder bueno

'''_aesthetic approach
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the way we express our feelings (drawings + photographs + texts)