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Book: 1 1 1995
Refiguring Life
Metaphors of Twentieth Century Biology
The focus of these three essays is the role of language and technology in the progress of genetic science. Drawing on a broad…
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Book: 14 4 1995
Out of Control
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.
An accessible and entertaining explanation of why the coming years will probably be the Age of Biology -- particularly evolution and…
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1995
Homes: Meshwork or Hierarchy?
How do homes happen? Are they planned, as we have intuitively tended to believe, or is the process a more messy one? Drawing on…
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ArjenDon't answer too quickly
With reference to John Lilly's Simulations of God
Theory only flourishes when a central concept is found into which everything ultimately seems to fit. To cite just a few examples:…
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MaurizioThe Ephemeral Icon
Infusing life to trigger a process of final dissolution
A design-research project looking at the study and the application of a fungus, Phanerochaete chrysosporium, to synthetic, toxic…
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SanderGraduation Bouquet
annex Publicity Plant
On July 1st 2009 Sander Veenhof (1973) is graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld art academy in Amsterdam. To color up that occasion…
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PilarThe Bio Data Visualisation Workshop Experience
And the amazing uses of slime-mold
Mold, slime, intelligent design, art... could these concepts ever be linked together? The Bio Data Visualisation Workshop held by…
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Book:
Moorehead,Darwin en de Beagle
een scheepsreis naar de oertijd
De reis van Charles Darwin en zijn onderzoek die uiteindelijk leidde tot zijn theorie over natuurlijke selectie.
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1 1 1998
Tierra
Artificial Evolution in an Artificial World
Until recently, one of the most frustrating problems for evolutional biologists was the fact that the process of evolution could not…
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lieselot,nana,anita
*lab updated
A working space and open learning environment where different crafts and skills can be shared and developed
This proposal did not evolve into a project
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Book: 1 3 1998
Imagenation
Popular Images of Genetics
Historian of science Jose Van Dijck examines the role of images and imagination in popular representations of the new genetics since…
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TanjaTrans links
Some links for, about and related to transgenderism
In connection to Mediamatic's exhibition Kiki! On Steroids, an exhibition about gender, identity, the internet, play,…
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LeandraDe wereld redden op klaslokaalschaal
Miniponics: het ultieme wapen voor een lokale klimaatridder
Altijd al een aquarium en een moestuin in je klaslokaal willen hebben? Of iets goeds willen doen voor het klimaat? Mediamatic biedt…
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Clean Room
Laboratory Installation
In this controlled sterile environment we inoculate substrate with mushroom spores and experiment with all things fungal.
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Book: 1 7 1998
Memory Trade
A Prehistory of Cyberculture
The notion of "culture" is changing at the speed of information itself. Computer technology is creating a new kind of…
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1: 1992
Virtual Voices (1)
Mimesis
The new digital media technologies, which are now being developed, are often imitative technologies. Future generations may end up…
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Inflatable Clean Lab
Portable mycelium research area
The Inflatable Clean Lab is a portable structure consisting of HEPA filters, a blower, and plastic material. When the Clean Lab…
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Mediamatic Magazine vol.7#1: 1992
Virtual Voices (2)
Mimesis
Soft Machines
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Eindhoven, Schellens Fabriek
BIOTRICITY and BACTERIA BATTERY No. 5
31 May 2013 – 7 Jun 2013
As part of Techno Ecologies, Baltan Laboratories presents the workshop “BIOTRICITY” and the installation “BACTERIA BATTERY…
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margaritaSlime Mold Computing
Gathering intelligence from brain-less organisms
Physarum polycephalum, better known as slime mold, is a simple organism that can solve some very complex problems. Slime molds are…
