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This Semester I have been exploring with Physarum Ploycephalum and wanted to find a sophisticated project through this. After struggeling for some time I have decided to make my project about Living and Coexisting with the Slime Mold.

I have expeimented with growing it over different objects, up to the point where it is taking part in my life and in my room. I am sharing my personal space, privacy and personal items with Physarum Polycepalum.

What is Physarum Polycephalum

https://www.biologie-seite.de/Biologie/Physarum_polycephalum

EXPERIMENTING

Mirror and Physarum Polycephalum

Building a Petridish with a mirror as the base

26.06.2022 building the top

28.06.2022 trying to cover the mirror with agar (failure)

Clothing and Physarum Polycephalum

04.06.2022 Observing the growth in Petridish

05.06.2022

(A)Carefully placing the Organism on the T-shirt with a cardboard beneath. Then wetting and feeding with oats just around the aga cover. In order to control grow a cover is put over. Fabric: Cotton

(B) Placing the Organism in the Center of the Tshirt. It is not wet or feed with additional food or water. The Agar moisture spreads out on the fabric. I hope this will create a differet sturcture in growth than from A. Fabric: Satin

06.06.2022 Growth of A and B

08.06.2022 Final day

B I really like the result of this one.

A As seen, for the moment to take the pictures, a part of the organism has already started going black. And the thickness of the rest has been reduced. It started dying.

Scoby

For this Experiment I was following this guide. After prepearing and mixing I took it home to observe the bacterias growth.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Home_Made_Bioelectronics/Other_resources

The 1 and 2 show the same behaviour. Small dots grow all over the petri dish just mass/coverage is decreased. In the dished 3 , 4 and 5 a different growth structure is visible. In these a serried growth from the edge to the middle is visible. Additionally small dots appear in 3 there are few dots than in 1:1000 and no rhytms in the growth from the side. Comparing 4 and 5 to the rest: Both show structure and rhythm in the growth from the side, the rest doesn´t. This might occur due to the mold growing inside which grew on accident. Comparing 4 and 5 to another the difference in the thickness and mass of the dots and patterns, rhythmsis visible. 4 has more dots than 3 and 5 which goes againt the "theory" the dots decreasing. Also in the reference dish 6 a small space is covered in bacteria which should not have happend.

I can not explain why the behaviour, patterns changes nor why the intesity changes from 4 and 5.

References

Artists

Old Concept/Experiment with Martin Howse sensor

/OLD CONCEPT

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-'''FUCK OFF'''
+[[File:HEaderAmelia.jpg|1000px]]
+This Semester I have been exploring with Physarum Ploycephalum and wanted to find a sophisticated project through this. After struggeling for some time I have decided to make my project about '''Living and Coexisting''' with the Slime Mold.
-''Concept''
+I have expeimented with growing it over different objects, up to the point where it is taking part in my life and in my room. I am sharing my personal space, privacy and personal items with Physarum Polycepalum.
-Extended intelligence in connection to humans is a popular discussion. Giving another organism the power to communicate and extend it self’s intelligence is rather 'underground'. After all physical harm humans have done to plants, if they could talk, plants would probably tell humans to “Fuck off”.
-In this interactive installation I am giving a plant the power to communicate with humans. For this the natural impulses that go through a plant are being captured. Therefore, making the plant the sensor and appropriating its natural sensory. The closer (physical) a human comes to a plant it is going to react. These impulses that it is giving to itself will be different, and these will determine different sentences and insults in English and German.
-[[File:FOFCS.jpeg|400px]]
+'''What is Physarum Polycephalum'''
+*https://www.biologie-seite.de/Biologie/Physarum_polycephalum
-''Technical''
-To collect the electric signals the shown circut (Guided by Martin Howse) in connection to an Ardunio is used.
+'''EXPERIMENTING'''
+'''Mirror and Physarum Polycephalum'''
-*Arduino Code
+Building a Petridish with a mirror as the base
- const int ledPin = 9;      // the pin that the LED is attached to
+''26.06.2022'' building the top
+<gallery>
+File:hpd.jpeg
+File:hpdd.jpeg
+File:hpddd.jpeg
+</gallery>
-  // the setup routine runs once when you press reset:
+''28.06.2022'' trying to cover the mirror with agar (failure)
-  void setup() {
-  // initialize serial communication at 9600 bits per second:
-  Serial.begin(9600);
-  // initialize the ledPin as an output:
-  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
-  }
-  // the loop routine runs over and over again forever:
+<gallery>
-  void loop() {
+File:underthe.jpeg
-  byte brightness;
+File:ufailure.jpeg
+File:beautifulfailure.jpeg
+</gallery>
-  // check if data has been sent from the computer:
+'''Clothing and Physarum Polycephalum'''
-  if (Serial.available()) {
-    // read the most recent byte (which will be from 0 to 255):
-    brightness = Serial.read();
-    // set the brightness of the LED:
-    analogWrite(ledPin, brightness);
-  }
-  // read the input on analog pin 0:
+''04.06.2022'' Observing the growth in Petridish
-  int sensorValue = analogRead(A0);
+<gallery>
-  // print out the value you read:
+File:ppinpetri.jpeg
-  Serial.println(sensorValue);
+</gallery>
-  delay(1000);        // delay in between reads for stability
-  }
-*Circut Board and Plant
+''05.06.2022''
-[[File:circutboarss.jpeg|400px]]  [[File:referenceecables.jpeg|400px]]
+'''(A)'''Carefully placing the Organism on the T-shirt with a cardboard beneath. Then wetting and feeding with oats just around the aga cover. In order to control grow a cover is put over. Fabric: Cotton
-*Values
+<gallery>
+File:placeee.jpeg
+File:feeeed.jpeg
+File:coverr.jpeg
+</gallery>
-[[File:Values Plant.png|400px]]
+'''(B)''' Placing the Organism in the Center of the Tshirt. It is not wet or feed with additional food or water. The Agar moisture spreads out on the fabric. I hope this will create a differet sturcture in growth than from '''A'''. Fabric: Satin
+<gallery>
+File:Tshiört.jpeg
+File:Tisirt.jpeg
+File:Tshiiiii.jpeg
+</gallery>
+''06.06.2022'' Growth of '''A''' and '''B'''
-''Terms ''
+<gallery>
+File:666b222.jpeg
+File:6662222.jpeg
+</gallery>
+''08.06.2022'' Final day
-The insults are collected in advance. For this, people are asked which insult they use frequently, find "most efficient", funny or perhaps even endearing. Via Instagram, a pin board, family gatherings.... different generations and social niches will come together.
+'''B'''
+I really like the result of this one.
+<gallery>
+File:likki.jpeg
+File:pplieky.jpeg
+File:ppthstlke.jpeg
+</gallery>
-''Behaviour of the interactive Person''
+'''A'''
+As seen, for the moment to take the pictures, a part of the organism has already started going black. And the thickness of the rest has been reduced. It started dying.
+<gallery>
+File:deadppp.jpeg
+File:deadppp.jpeg
+File:deadpp.jpeg
+</gallery>
-''References & Thoughts''
+'''Scoby'''
-*I am in power over what the plant will be saying and interpreting the behavior, but I do not know .  Maybe this plant is masochistic, and loves being treated bad. I am giving it a linguistic pattern that is determined and limited (Noam Chomsky). Therefore, I am controlling the plants will, which is the opposite of giving the plant the power.
+For this Experiment I was following this guide. After prepearing and mixing I took it home to observe the bacterias growth.
-https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-chomsky/mind-language-and-the-limits-of-inquiry/B2FAB55FEAAD93B19EA5BCB888607879
+https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Home_Made_Bioelectronics/Other_resources
-*By generating the terms, the plant will probably turn out sexist. I doubt that people will give me gender neutral insults.
+<gallery>
+File:Bacteriaa.jpeg
+</gallery>
+The 1 and 2 show the same behaviour. Small dots grow all over the petri dish just mass/coverage is decreased. In the dished 3 , 4 and 5 a different growth structure is visible. In these a
+serried growth from the edge to the middle is visible. Additionally small dots appear in 3 there are few dots than in 1:1000 and no rhytms in the growth from the side.  Comparing 4 and 5 to the rest: Both show structure and rhythm in the growth from the side, the rest doesn´t. This might occur due to the mold growing inside which grew on accident. Comparing 4 and 5 to another the difference in the thickness and mass of the dots and patterns, rhythmsis visible. 4 has more dots than 3 and 5 which goes againt the "theory" the dots decreasing.
+Also in the reference dish 6 a small space is covered in bacteria which should not have happend.
+I can not explain why the behaviour, patterns changes nor why the intesity changes from 4 and 5.
-''Problems''
-If capturing the impulses won’t be possible one ore more distance sensor will be used.
+'''References'''
+*https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/loes.bogers/files/recipes/bacterialdye/
+*https://www.lampoonmagazine.com/article/2021/08/06/vienna-textile-lab-bacterial-dyes-karin-fleck/
+*https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-environments-new-clothes-biodegradable-textiles-grown-from-live-organisms/
+*https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Different_Worlds/Anna_Wissmueller
+'''Artists'''
+* https://annadumitriu.co.uk/
+* https://www.realitydisfunction.org/?page_id=182
+*https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_deDE984DE984&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=decalcomanie+max+ernst&fir=JEWjxFlDBH3bvM%252ClXvJO1Yxdkt9OM%252C_%253B4l-9SSiGcDMGoM%252CTrYvdNcSjDY75M%252C_&usg=AI4_-kQer15CgRlQzDt5OwKB9GQyfMWeew&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjuw9qXsZb4AhXgSvEDHZC2ASsQ7Al6BAgaEAI&biw=1368&bih=761&dpr=2
+'''Old Concept/Experiment with Martin Howse sensor'''
+[[/OLD CONCEPT]]