Finally! The video documentation from my laboratory growth experiments and analysis of physarum slime mould under differing conditions of temperature, light, humidity and, food path and location. Most riveting of the documentation is the change in cellular rhythm over the duration of the video documentation as the system adapts to the environment of the laboratory, light of the microscope and location of the food I tease it with from the regulated conditions of its regularly kept containment cooler (at 20C). The ebb and flow of the cellular rhythm within the biological system has recently been heavily studied by micro-biologists and computer scientist abroad. However, it is the brilliant Unconventional Computing team at the University of West England at Bristol where the first slime-bot was assembled utilizing the cellular rhythm of the slime mould linked with a micro-fluidic chip.
http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/UWENews/article.asp?item=1553&year=2009
In an architectural context, I am interested in this living technology for its alchemical relationship with gold, more aptly with its surreal installation under guilded gold as a material internet capable of storing and releasing secret codes of information through the users environmental engagement with it in built space.
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August 16, 2010 at 2:10 pm
3 Degrees
Will Re-Edit another video after next week with additional footage of the more active parts of the system as the above one jumps around to the 3 main life-cycle parts, sorry.