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06 Apr, 2010

25SG garage bioart residency (9th-18th April)

Posted by: Brian In: art|ecology|research|seminar

I am doing a residency at 25sg, turning the garage gallery into a space for domestic biotechnology.

Aims: investigating the process of growing microorgansisms as a domestic performance.

Materials: glowing bacteria, fish, eggs, DNA, mushrooms, gelatin, agar, various fermented “live” drinks, vegetarian and milkbased bioplastics. Outputs: skinning models of domestic artifacts, such as chairs, teapots, straws.

Methodology: trying out things space,using open source recipes by others and i am still ruminating on the “live” ness.

Crossover: wordage on the application meshes with mine, as 25sg talks about being an incubator, and it will literally be that for the period I am there. Leave a comment if you want to come and talk and learn a bit of biologyness.

Tags: Bacteria, bioart, Bioplastic, Biotechnology, Fish

10 Responses to "25SG garage bioart residency (9th-18th April)"

1 | carole luby

April 9th, 2010 at 6:10 pm

great 1st day brian. Looking forward to the process and learning more from your input to the incubator

2 | carole luby

April 10th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

Brian’s research can be followed on the blog http://bioartforum.com or on the mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/bioartforum

3 | derrick welsh

April 11th, 2010 at 9:07 pm

I like the images of things on the other site do you have lots more nice images?

4 | Brian

April 12th, 2010 at 12:59 am

yes, I have lots of nice images, one of my functions is image maker.. what particularly do you like?

5 | Brian

April 12th, 2010 at 1:00 am

thanks, i am really enjoying it!

6 | alejandro

April 12th, 2010 at 11:47 pm

wonderfull, curious to know about the outputs

bye bye
alejandro

7 | Brian

April 17th, 2010 at 12:49 am

It is an incubator, trying out things and working out what I can do in future. Want a kit of parts that is portable and affordable. Bioplastic experiments are going well. Bioplastic moulds might be interesting, have some luminecent bacteria from squid, seeing if I can expand them. Interested in the interactivos and just missed hacteria

8 | carole luby

April 17th, 2010 at 12:09 pm

last day before the final showing of incubated materials.

Looking forward to seeing everybody. Hopefully we can use the garden space to eat as well!

9 | alejandro

April 17th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

brian, it would be great to have a proposal in this line for neighbourhood science

10 | brian

April 18th, 2010 at 1:15 am

Alejandro, working on it! Thanks for the heads up.

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Brian Degger is a technologist/artist, he writes, thinks and makes around themes of interactivity, biomimicracy, and collaboration

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PDF import and editing in openoffice
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miniFM

In the foreground is a Tetsuo Kogawa version (built during RadioCraftLab, during AVFest08) and in the back the remix by sonodrome (built last week at Sonodrome Central). Both assembled by me.

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Bioplastic
Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something else. Plastic is expensive to buy for these machines, but it is all around. SO be it bio-plastic or post waste plastic, ways of reusing these provide a compelling reason to throw away less waste. It is amazing that these materials are coming out of the factories, to be used in domestic situations. Together with polymorph and sugru, there are a variety of materials to play around for wearables, for prototypes and one offs. Bring on the future, with peer production.

Maker Faire Newcastle is March 13-14, 2010 (makezine.com)
Bioplastics – the quest for Open Source material production (jaycousins.wordpress.com)

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augmented foraging - cool use of layar -

augmented foraging Originally uploaded by _foam A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.

Amsterdam urban_ edibles is developing Augmented_Foraging, a mobile phone guide to wild-food sources using Layar. Much better use of this program than finding property in Amsterdam (unless you live there of course)!

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