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 Performance and presentation of "Biological Narrative #7: Danaus" was part of this year's 11th Subtle Technologies Festival 2008: LIGHT, held in and around Innis Town Hall and UT in Toronto from 29 May to 1 June, 2008. The festival was the 11th international gathering of artists, scientists, theorists and audience, whose mission is "dedicated to catalyzing the development of new emergent practices in new media art by investigating the artistic relationships and collaborations between artists and scientists within the realms of art, science and technology. Bringing together creative practitioners from diverse fields in a week long festival with symposia, workshops, exhibitions, screenings and performances under a topical theme, Subtle Technologies provides a forum to pose and explore questions, exhibit, screen and inspire work that is relevant to the implications of new artistic developments at the intersection of Art, Science and Technology."
Extending the performance of the live cinema work - "Biological Narrative #7: Danaus" was a symposium discussion of the biological narrative that emerges from the enchainment of visual protein sequences to photoreceptor reactions to pattern recognition to locative/migratory expression and on to the broader roots and recognitions that compose and evolve ecological memory from light.
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Written by biotica
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Monday, 28 May 2007 18:00 |
 Pre-print of “Biomimetics: Emulation and Propagation in Post-traditional Ecologies", in “Second Nature: Reproduction and the Artificial in Art, Science and New Media”, Rolf Hughes & Jenny Sunden, Editors, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden is available for download as PDF HERE.
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 The strategy of applied biomimetics has been heralded as design innovation inspired by nature. The inclusive process takes in phases of bioprospecting, biophilia, and emulated biosemiotics to arrive at an implementation of engineered design that ideally might carry implicit biological/environmental sensibilities. Applied elements from this strategy can be found in cybernetics, therapeutics/medicine, structural engineering, militarized intelligence and now in the propagation of new media art practices. While the idealized practice emulates a platform of honoring/sustaining the original thru the preservation of context, the extended practice in post-traditional ecologies frequently crosses the lines of biopiracy and sustains a distancing spiral of simulacra thru a re-wiring of ecological consciousness.
This essay will examine the intent and impact of applied biomimetics across a spectrum of creative and technological-mediated processes through three comparative lenses: as the scientific characterization of natural biological systems; as historically-rooted sociocultural performances/practices and as contemporary engineered-design and creative media-based expression. The objective of comparison through these three perspectives on the biomimetic approach to the appropriation and emulation of natural systems is to align the phenomena and practice within the contextual realms of traditional and post-traditional ecologies as a means of characterizing the distance between origin and derivative in this creative biocultural practice.
Biomimetic design practice is enabled and delineated by the collective lexical observations of biomaterials/composition, biological time, space, and the enchained interactive patterns of bio-, zoo- and ecosemiotics. In this transference between wild-type ecological contexts and anthropogenic constructs, the thread of intent, distance from origin and resulting impact of application vary according to underwriter, author and user/audience. The outlined comparisons will highlight these subjectivities in practice and realization while attempting to connect biomimetics as a practical cultural phenomena that emulates, appropriates and propagates across traditional and post-traditional ecological contexts. |
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Saturday, 05 May 2007 18:00 |
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 "An endangered phenomenon is a spectacular aspect of the life history of an animal or plant species involving a large number of individuals that is threatened with impoverishment or demise; the species per se need not be in peril, rather, the phenomenon it exhibits is at stake.The vision of the near future is darkened with increasing numbers of species reduced in range and so constrained in numbers that they can no longer exhibit these characteristic spectacles."
This year's return of Danaus plexipus to North America continues on a recovery cycle from the 2004 hard winter freeze in the Sierra of Michoacan. Last spring's visit before the return was impressionable, but the reality is that the continued decline of the Oyamel fir forest in the biosphere reserves above Angangueo will be the last stand for this endangered migration in the not too distant years. The phenomenology that is etched into the memory of North American Grade Schoolers, when they capture their first monarch caterpillar and the magic of metamorphosis is witnessed, may soon become one more mythical legend - a whisper of how a seemingly simple lifeform could make a 3500km journey, in the form of a flutter of colored paper riding the winds across an entire continent. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 June 2008 15:13 )
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Written by biotica
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Monday, 28 May 2007 18:00 |
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 “Biological Narrative #7: Danaus” is a digital video and biological/genetic music hybrid whose platform is built upon electronic translations derived from the locative protein complex of the migratory North American Monarch Butterfly. The work is based in the genotypic origins of this navigation in combination with the phenotypic expression that is exerted to fulfill this annual journey across the North American continent from Canada to Mexico and back. This protein-based sun compass translates the lifeform’s relationship to color wavelength, as well as terrestrial and biological time. The work builds on the sonic equivalents of these locative proteins, developing a multi-layered audio score derived from genetic sequences of the blue, ultraviolet, and long wavelength opsin proteins found in the vision system of Danaus plexipus.
This sonic work is joined with the visual characterizations of this migration consisting of video field recordings, time-lapse documentation of the organism’s migratory path, and virtual reality of the butterfly’s microscopic anatomy. The resulting work bends the sensibilities of the Danaus specie across multiple data scales to re-mediate the essential ties that all organisms have to journey, vulnerability and survival.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 July 2008 11:59 )
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Tuesday, 20 March 2007 18:00 |
 biotica studio | laboratory is a collaboratorium for emerging forms of expression which cross propagate biological narrativity into the expanding multimedia lexicon.
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