Smin Kim

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Human and Non Human Performances

Inspiration

  • Daphnia decomposition

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BioArt is an art practice where humans work with living organisms and life processes. On the other hand, in bioart we look organisum's death more often than everyday life. When i observed Daphnia,i saw one of dead dapnia under the microscope.I would like to know what happen to daphnia after death. Under the microscope, daphnia's body looks big like a building which made by glass. At the same time it was freaked out.
Whan a plant, animal, or insect dies, that plant, animal, or insect is broken into tiny pieces and those pieces become part of the soil. This is called decomposition.


Bacteria, fungi, and some worms are what break down dead plants, animals, and insects. The bacteria, fungi, and worms are called decomposers. Decomposers need to eat some of the dead things so they can live and grow.

The tiny pieces left over after decomposers eat become part of the soil. Living plants take what they need from these pieces so they can grow. The parts of these pieces that living plants take to grow are called nutrients. So, living plants make their own food, but they also need to get nutrients from the soil. Decomposers help provide these nutrients.

It is not just on a forest floor that decomposition is important. Death and decomposition are an essential part of all life cycles on earth. To enable successful birth and growth of young plants and animals, older specimens must die and decompose. This limits the competition for resources and provides a fresh source of essential nutrients for new generations of life.




Death, like birth, a secret of nature.

Idea

   

Bodies are, after all, merely forms of energy, trapped in lumps of matter waiting to be released into the wider universe

The struggle to survive becomes a harmonious story, each organism playing a role in its life and death, and each side sharing the hope of triumph, the ultimate defeat over the other and the utopia that lies just outside of its reach, once whatever great trial life sets before it has been overcome.



Prototype

Using processing i try to make a prototype of work. before that, first hacked xboxs kinetic camera (done) and also i have to be familiar with image processing. In the prototype, particle will be replace Bacteria, sort of worms and maggot.



reference

Which Bacteria Decompose Your Dead, Bloated Body?

A Little Death, Sam Taylor Wood


Interactive drawer

Inspiration

Salvador Dali, Figure with Drawers for a Four-part Screen, circa 1934
From flickr, Philip Cheng All Rights Reserved

Idea