GMU:Different Worlds/Introduction

Related student projects

Physarum Polycephalum

• Hybrid Habitat - living sculpture by Kristin Jakubek
• Writing system for Non-Human species by Fernanda Caicedo
• Farewell PP by Antje Danz

Euglena Gracilis

• Reaching for sunlight by Sarah Horn
• Euglena clock by Leoni Fischer
• Bio boardgame with Euglena by Nastaran Sahraei

Other references

Physarum polycephalum

• The Blob, documentary (in French), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKnnK71Cc24
• The slime mold collective, http://slimoco.ning.com/

Euglena gracilis

• Ingmar Riedel-Kruse lab at stanford university. human-biology interaction (HBI). Euglena, physarum and other organisms in collaboration with humans. Trap it! Museum visitors could use blue, green or red light to draw patterns on the screen and observe how the Euglena reacted. The microorganisms avoided blue light, so drawing a circle around one of the microbes would trap it, which became the name for one of the scientific mini-games, http://web.stanford.edu/group/riedel-kruse/publications/CHI517-lee.pdf
• Ingmar Riedel-Kruse lab. Euglena soccer. biotic-games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwU9deF8rw start at 27:05