Drosophila Karaoke Bar [2018]
Ursula Damm
The installation invites visitors to establish a direct exchange with fruit flies through a technical interface. A software is transforming human speech into signal that can be perceived by flies. It allows auditory feedback between people and animals. For blending human and fly songs we will use a special signal processing vocoder provided by Berd Edler of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.
Euglena soccer
Riedel-Kruse Lab at stanford university
Players earn points by guiding the Euglena through the goal posts.
Blocksworld repopulated! (2016)
Dancing with Daphnia
Smin Kim
Performing Polyphony
Frederic Blais-Belanger
Performing Polyphony explores collaboration between species: While the dancer performs, her movements generate air streams into the water, triggering the glow of the algae. Their emission of light is then perceived by a photosensor and translated as sounds that will feed the performer's motion, thus creating a complete loop between the two organisms.