A breadcrumb trail of project notes
I moved back to San Francisco (though currently in Vancouver en route to Alaska… see the next post). Had the chance to take Strange Attractor to a meadow full of wildflowers in Northern California. The meadow was filled with several species of butterflies. There were white butterflies (positive ident forthcoming) feeding on [...]
Read More..>>Natalie Jeremijenko and I released two dozen butterflies in the OOZ garden. We helped them feed from some watermelon in the Strange Attractor artificial flowers then observed their behaviour. The Monarchs stayed at Strange Attractor longer and were more likely to leave, fly around the garden a bit and return to the [...]
Read More..>>I took some pictures at the Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One? conference presented by the New York Academy of Science.
I hadn’t realized that Theo Jasen had used a genetic algorithm to get the lengths for his beach animals. There are 11 sections in each leg that contribute of the shape of the [...]
Interesting conference coming up in NYC on Biology and Art. Opening talk by Wim Delvoye, creator of Cloaca. The rest of the talks pair an artist with a scientist in a related field. Theo Jansen will be there!
Biology and Art: Two Worlds or One?
Sponsored by: The New York Academy of Sciences
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Read More..>>The brilliant (and twisted) Real Ben Brown sent me this fantastic video of a dance interpretation of protein synthesis carried out with hundreds of students on a football field in 1971. It’s narrated by Nobel laureate Paul Berg and check out that sound track! All kinds of awesome.
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