The BI is represent by an Argentinian wood-roach colony. The project intends to visualize the dependancy of a living organism upon technology, and technology upon a living organism. (cybersymbiosis)
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is a interactive habitat for a Biological Intelligence (BI). The BI is represent by an Argentinian wood-roach colony. The project intends to visualize the dependancy of a living organism upon technology, and technology upon a living organism. (cybersymbiosis) |
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Simulation of the original Bio-Network interface. turtle engines triggered by the movement of a cockroach colony and network traffic. |
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since technology made this fancy golden cage around our life, the question of "how dependend are we really?" pops up more often. this project is about visualisation of technological interaction processes and the direct dependency on using our own technology a cockroach colony lives within a case-modded computer. the heat generated by the operation of the computer is good enough to garantuee optimum breeding temperature for this kind of roach spezies. there is a direct dependency, that the computer needs to keep running. several movement sensores (IR) are spread all over the habitat to track the roaches activity. the triggering of the sensores keeps the machine alive, because if it does not receive any movement signals for a certain time, it shuts itself down. therefore, the roach colony depends on temperature generated by the machine. the uptime of the machine depends on the roaches. if one instance fails, the system symbiosis will die.
tom
enzi, 2003. |
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