GMU:Design with Fungi / Frederic Schmidt / Dokumentation

Find 3 art projects /Products that use microorganisms and present the Why/What/How in a minute. (group work 2 people)

Think about a own Project/Product that you also present to the course.

1. https://www.grown.bio/de/produkt/konus-lampe/?v=3a52f3c22ed6

Why: You want to be sustainable while bringing cozy and modern light to your home.

What: Use a specially cultivated mycelium lamp shade that is produced with a very low use of energy and is also handmade within 4 - 10 days.

How: The lamp shade is produced with a very low use of energy and is also handmade within 4 - 10 days, it will grow into shape and is then assembled with the electronics. The shade can be removed easily and also changed to a different shape, it is compostable as well.

2. http://www.oliverk.org/art-projects/research/slime-mold-oracle

Why: You have trouble making decisions and usually use the help of an oracle to get along with this?

What: Use a slime mold to help you make your decisions.

How: Prepare a oat meal for the mold that he/she can reach with the same circumstances like distance and amount and so on. Label the two or more directions (oat meals) with the options you have and let the slime mold help with your decision. Believe in the decision the slime mold made for you.

Own project/idea:

Why: Need a new kind of interface that gives data, impulses, output that you can use as a source for different artistical aproaches in Music, Visual, Mecanical kinetic...

What: Interface between enviroment, Slime Mold and devices that use CV in shape of a box with electrical connections leading out to get the electrical impulses.

How: The box is transparent but can be covered to keep the light away and has the ability to open small chambers with things like water, food, critical materials, that have an effect on the slime mold...the reaction will be measures and can be used via the electrical output that can be hocked up to different devices.

CompoDry – Demontage durch Kompostierung

• The lifetime of small electrical devices is still short and the process of recycling the components is not worthwhile. Improving the recycling-process of electronic devices.
• Two principles were pursued here: Firstly, as many non-electrical components as possible should be compostable. Secondly, electrical parts and components made of different metals should be separated through a rotting process so that they can be reused or collected by type.
• This work explores the use of compostable materials in small electrical devices and tries to answer the question:
  what if, at the end of a biodegradation process, only components made of recyclable materials remained that could be reused or collected separately.
• Mycel is ideal for printed circuits boards because it is electrically insulating, heat-resistant up to 250°C.