By David W. Halsell
The Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela endeavored to accurately define life when they first formulated a theory for distinctions of living systems in the early 1970s. This work was influenced by the “systems” approach to theoretical biology,1 and developed out of Maturana’s study of the nervous systems in animals. The […]
Observation, Interference and Evolutionary Relationships, (An overview of the Phumos project) ¿Phumox? ¿What’s that ?
Andy Gracie
(spanish)
The Phumox project (established February 2005 by Andy Gracie (hostprods) and Brian Lee Yung Rowe (muxspace) has as its aim the exploration of collective intelligence, organic development and interplay with the dual concepts of symbiosis and parasitism. Phumox examines the […]
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau
(spanish)
We are considered pioneering media artists-researchers creating interactive media art installations since the early 90s [1]. Over the past 14 years we have developed various interface technologies for media art applications that are somewhere between an artistic/technical invention and a prototype for novel human-machine interaction. Here we briefly describe some of […]
Marta de Menezes
(spanish)
Recent advances in developmental biology allow interference with normal developmental programs, thus making possible the creation of novel live organisms. It is common in scientific laboratories to generate animals with characteristics that were never seen before in Nature. My work explores this potential in order to create adult live butterflies with wing patterns […]
Eduardo Kac
(spanish)
“Move 36” makes reference to the dramatic move made by the computer called Deep Blue against Chess world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. This competition can be characterized as a match between the greatest chess player who ever lived against the greatest chess player who never lived. The installation sheds light on the […]
To heaven But Not with Them
George Gessert
(spanish)
The most interesting question that plant breeding raises for me is: why are some hybrids esthetically more appealing than others?
This question has received remarkably little attention, considering how popular flowers are, and how long plant breeding has been practiced. Most garden writers ignore the question, or pass over […]
Nell Tenhaaf
(spanish)
I started to integrate scientific and technological issues together into my work beginning in the mid 1980s. My interest in biology grew out of an already established interest in new technologies, which grew out of an earlier interest in how a machine could intervene in the artmaking process. I did “xerox art” in the […]
(spanish)
Ecce Homology is the result of a creative collaboration amongst artists and scientists. Contributor’s areas of expertise include, bioinformatics, computer science, biology, performance, engineering, proteomics, and new media arts.
Ecce Homology is an interactive installation that bridges art and science through the use of dynamic media, computer vision and computer graphics. Named after […]
