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=== Summaery 2019 === | |||
===Physarum & I=== | |||
A project from [[GMU:I,_Organism,_and_Feedback_Loops/Antje_Danz|Antje Danz]] & [[GMU:I,_Organism,_and_Feedback_Loops/Fernanda_Caicedo|Fernanda Caicedo]] | |||
The Goal of our work is to make people curious about nature and the meanings of intelligence and creativity in a playful way. | |||
We strongly believe in the importance of didactic learning. We want to give people the possibility to experience in a close and fun relationship Bioart and the interaction with organisms. They will be able to recognize and appreciate the capabilities of micro organisms, in our case represented by the Slime Mould "Physarum Polycephalum" and change their points of view about nature and life itself by exploring the collaborations between organisms of different species (Human/Protist). | |||
===Workshop=== | |||
Visitors of the installation are invited to collaborate with the single celled social organism Physarum Polycephalum. In a small workshop set up they learn how to cultivate it, how to feed it, how to get creatively in contact and interaction with it and what they can learn from it. | |||
Part of the single celled organism is shared with the audience as well as some easy to use Experimental Kits to collect information about the new habitat of the organism outside of the lab and its interaction especially with kids and people from a non scientific or artistic context as well as any other interested. | |||
In the end Physarum it is fused back together into one big organism to see how it shares the outside of the lab experience among the parts. | |||
Visitors will obtain instructions on how to document the interaction with their cell phone by using Applications such as FrameLapse or by using their camera software. They will also have the task of uploading their videos or screenshots on social networks using hashtags such as: | |||
.#PhysarumAndMe #PhysarumIsAWriter #SummaeryBiolabExperiment | |||
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===Maze Experiment - First try=== | |||
We thought of how to do the experiment as easy as possible. First we prepared a normal agar plate with a 2 % agar solution and then In then an agar salt solution: | |||
*100 ml water | |||
*1 g agar | |||
*350 g sodium | |||
Heated up everything till it boiled and then we "painted" the maze with the salt solution on the normal agar plate. We placed the oat flakes at the start of the maze and at the finish and set up a time lapse to see what happened. We took a picture every 8 minutes and checked after 5 days. As it has been quite hot after 3 days the plate dried out and Physarum as well. The salt speeded up the process. See the result in the video below. | |||
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===Maze Experiment - second try=== | |||
We want to improve the maze experiment so we started a second try. Normal agar plate was prepared again and also one full plate with the agar salt recipe. This time we printed a maze and cut out a stencil with coloured card board and put it in the liquid agar salt solution and let it sit till it cooled. We cut the maze out again and placed it in the petri dish with the 2 % water agar. We also painted a bit of the salty agar in areas we we don't want the organism to go. We placed oats at the end of the maze and the organism at the start. Time lapse is set. | |||
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