GMU:DIY Bio: doing things with biology/Frederic Blais-Belanger: Difference between revisions

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Project presentation

As part of my Projektmodul Art and Biomedia: agencies of being, I am working on creating a platform where the viewer can perform a social interaction with a different specie by the forms of sound and dance.

Within this class, I want to research about Pyrocystis Fusiformis in two specific areas. The first one will be on how to grow them and to take care of them in the best way possible in order to give them the best conditions and keep them alive. The second field of interest is in the way they glow. I want to try different ways to make them illuminate so I can find the best interaction for this piece. I also want to know their limits: How long can they glow? How many times? etc. These informations will be helpful for exhibiting the artwork.

Link to full project: GMU:Art and Biomedia/Frederic Blais-Belanger

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 As part of my Projektmodul ''Art and Biomedia: agencies of being'', I am working on creating a platform where the viewer can perform a social interaction with a different specie by the forms of sound and dance.
-Dance is a powerful communication tool as it breaks the language barrier. It demands a mutual respect from both parties, but moreover a constant attention to the partner in order to adjust to its movements. It is a form of conversation where both partners have to answer to each other in a symbiotic way. It is for these reasons that I see dance as a metaphor for interspecies communication, for closing the gap between different organisms and bringing an alternative to the human solipsistic supremacy point of view.
+Within this class, I want to research about ''Pyrocystis Fusiformis'' in two specific areas. The first one will be on how to grow them and to take care of them in the best way possible in order to give them the best conditions and keep them alive. The second field of interest is in the way they glow. I want to try different ways to make them illuminate so I can find the best interaction for this piece. I also want to know their limits: How long can they glow? How many times? etc. These informations will be helpful for exhibiting the artwork.
-Within this class, I want to research about Photobacteria and Bioluminescent algeae in three specific areas. The first one will be on how to grow them and to take care of them in the best way possible in order to  give them the best conditions and keep them alive. The second field of interest is in the way they glow. How do they glow and why? I want to use this knowledge for finding an ethical way of making them collaborate. Finally, I want to research about their structure, their use in nature and the way they interact with their environments in order to make new connections possible.
 Link to full project: [[GMU:Art and Biomedia/Frederic Blais-Belanger]]