“Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0” presented by Dumitriu and Whitby

Symposium:

• ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Atmospheres and Ecologies

• Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0

• Anna Dumitriu
• Blay Whitby

Venue(s):

• Volkshochschule (VHS Dortmund), Dortmund, Germany

• Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0 is an interactive installation which makes explicit the sublime correlations between human digital communication and bacterial chemical communication. The project was a collaboration between a visual artist (Anna Dumitriu), a microbiologist (Dr Simon Park), a philosopher (Dr Blay Whitby), an interactive media artist (Tom Keene) and an artificial life programmer (Lorenzo Grespan) and was commissioned by The Science Gallery in Dublin as part of their exhibition “Infectious”.

  The artwork combines raw network traffic taking place live around the gallery (including web traffic, mobile technology and Bluetooth), a time-lapse film of bacterial communication occurring (involving two strains of genetically modified (GM) bacteria which will indicate, by changing colour or glowing, the communication taking place) and (generated from those sources) a new Cellular Automata artificial life form.

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