GMU:Life in an aquatic ecosystem/Intro

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Schedule

  • phosphorus - cyanobacteria (chlamidomonas or klebsormidium) and algae (euglena)
  • nitrogen - cyanobacteria (chlamidomonas or klebsormidium) and algae (euglena)

artistic projects (miga)

Under the Water by duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet (2019)

The work features a series of dye sublimation prints on aluminium showing images produced with a machine learning algorithm. Although this work explores machine-generated visuals from data sets of plastic in the ocean, it does neither question the danger of plastics nor data sets behind AI.

Aurelia 1+Hz / Proto Viva Generator by Robertina Šebjanič (2014)

The work features jellyfish trapped in an (animal unfriendly) simple robotic machine. By employing different sensor mechanisms and aesthetic outputs, the work addresses the possibilities of coexistence of humans, animals and machines. This work converts movements of jellyfish to sound, but does it for visual purposes only without allowing audiences to experience the actual coexistence nor does it listen to the animal.

Fish Architecture – A framework to create Interspecies Spaces by Anja Wegner (2021)

One of the outcomes, a video piece, features an aquatic ecosystem in contact with human-built objects. As some objects are ignored by fish communities, this work suggests that different species have special needs and preferences that are not necessarily easily foreseen by humans. The researcher explores the optimized environments for the aquatic communities but does it with a limited technical tool, a video camera.