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“An immersive experience is an illusory environment that completely surrounds you such that you feel that you are inside it and part of it. The term is associated with technology environments that command the senses such as virtual reality and mixed reality.”

“Art:

Contemporary art that is designed to surround the visitor. Immersive experiences can be accomplished without technology as art can transform reality on its own. “

https://simplicable.com/new/immersive-experience

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Semiconductor: The Technological Sublime- Wellington City Gallery.

I visited the Semiconductor exhibition at the City Gallery. I was hugely inspired by the experience and immersion created by projection and sound. I was also particularly fascinated by the transformation of data/non-human data and how this information can be translated and transformed through an immersive, spatial experience.��

“Taking huge, non-human data and making it tangible and experimental. Transcribing this unfamiliarity into human experience in order to recontextualise our human experience and experience of our world around us” Davidson Emma, ‘Research Document’ Pg. 3. 2019. Print

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TEST PROJECT IDEA 2?

Finding myself drawn back this idea of installation design. Can still incorporate strands of a narrative/ speculative ideas within this. Started sketching a storyboard about the user journey and experience. At this stage the installation is a chance to get in touch with the strangers within us and to meet our microbiome through our bacterial fingerprint??? Not sure about the process of this YET but am wanting to explore this through bacterial growth processes and even incorporating the process of growing bacteria- how can I pinpoint moments in that process and test to apply to the journey and functionality of this experience in the installation?

#testproject #test #installation

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aparations = beings of a higher consciousness

you don't need a physical form if you're pure energy

we "understand" what things are because we have a very geometrical idea of everything-everything is shapes. so if we saw something that didn't fit within that contruct we would have to put it in those shapes to understand it.

Human consciousness is like a fluid. It has to be contained somewhere or else it evaporates. How can it be called human consciousness, if it is not existing in the human body? We are tripartite beings, we have to work in accord in all these states, be it physical, nonphysical or metaphysical.

The human consciousness cannot be separated from the human body. It is not existing if it is not staying somewhere. It is the body that ignites consciousness. The brain is the main base of our consciousness, and it is stimulated by actions and pains which we sometimes feel. These pains most often happen in other parts of the body. Imagine a situation, where a person is subjected to torture. To make them accept some brainwashing, a consciousness that will contradict what they previously held as ideology. This pains will quicken their mind to go through a new consciousness, which may be with them after they have been freed from the torture.

The body and the consciousness are inseparable. It is the basis of human consciousness. The body is the main

Consciousness exists independently of the physical body but a temporary body is useful for gaining a particular types of experience. Consciousness and body are frequently separated.

STRANGE- Not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien.

Encountering and inhabiting the strange, unfamiliar and ____ of the body through interior architecture and spatial experience. A posthumanist response to _________.

Encountering the strange affors

How will your spatial design research be informed by an understanding of micro-organisms to shape a posthuman spatial experience?

#notes #brainvomit

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TEST PROJECT BRAINSTORM

TEST PROJECT- Speculative narratives-

making the invisible, visible, BUT through a narrative, paralell universe, the genetic and microbiological code is different where whatever any living creature touches, you can see the bacterial trace instantly, things shift and change, combine together, can sometimes disintergrate- posthuman, acknowledging everything living thing, but not their prescence, but by their trace, and how different traces can interconnect, grow something new...

An micro outbreak, contamination of the city, spreading, air pollution like an agar sollution, causing bacteria to visibily grow everywhere. -dna code,

Show the spatial manifestation through zooming into parts of wellington city- urban, domestic, living spaces, rituals,

everything looks similar, or close to the same, but the bacterial growth is visible, grows and shifts through time with its certain encounters with other strange,

spatial manifestation of bacteria through a narrative environment that responds to ecological, environmental and political crisis, and posthuman philosophy.

VISUALISES MY RESEARCH CONTEXT

CREATING A NARRATIVE/SPECULATIVE RESPONSE TO MY RESEARCH AGENDA TO CONTEXTUALISE THE SPATIAL MANIFESTATION -waste -climate change- environmental

ANNIHILATION

RELATION BACK TO CLIMATE CHANGE, BACTERIAL RESISTANCE- ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE,

#testproject #brainstorm

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How Bacteria Rule Over Your Body – The Microbiome

#video #bacteria #microbiome

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BACTERIAL GROWTH

“ Since bacteria are easy to grow in the lab, their growth has been studied extensively. It has been determined that in a closed system or batch culture (no food added, no wastes removed) bacteria will grow in a predictable pattern, resulting in a growth curve composed of four distinct phases of growth: the lag phase, the exponential or log phase, the stationary phase, and the death or decline phase. Additionally, this growth curve can yield generation time for a particular organism – the amount of time it takes for the population to double. “

Bacterial Growth Curve. By Michał Komorniczak. 

“ the details associated with each growth curve (number of cells, length of each phase, rapidness of growth or death, overall amount of time) will vary from organism to organism or even with different conditions for the same organism.  But the pattern of four distinct phases of growth will typically remain. “

#bacterialgrowth #bacteria #growth #science #research #practial

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DIY biolab | FABLAB

Agar recipe process. Here lies the recipe and process guidelines I took for my test of growing bacteria. The test completed with the amazing assistance and help of Wendy.

“DIY Bio Potato Dextrose Agar

Ingredients for 250mL:

2.5g dehydrated potato flakes (I used Homebrand)

5g dextrose

10g agar, I used the Thai fish brand from the Chinese food store

250mL tap water

Equipment:

tinfoil

pyrex jug

microwave

autoclave tape

Method:

Weigh out dry ingredients into microwaveable pyrex jug, add tap water to 250mL.

Microwave on high for 2-5min, until mixture boils and agar is dissolved.

Pour into glass petri dishes immediately, filling the dishes about half full and put lids back on dishes.

Wrap petri dishes containing agar in tin foil, mark with autoclave tape.

Sterilise using the pressure cooker method.

Store wrapped at 4 degrees celsius for up to a week.”

https://fablabwgtn.github.io/DIY-biolab/media/Potato-dextrose.html

#test #growing bactera #bacteria #growth #biolab #diy

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Marilyn Minter, GREEN PINK CAVIAR. 2009

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SYMBIOSIS

“In between co-operation and merger”

Symbiosis is when two organisms from different species live together for an extended length of time. At least one of them must find the situation advantageous or even necessary.

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‘Bacteria are living beings. This means that, among other things, they move, eat, grow, reproduce and discharge waste matter. They belong to the prokaryotes (from the Greek ‘pro’ meaning ‘before’ and ‘karyon’, ‘kernel’). This means that they have no cell nuclei. They do have cell walls. Humans belong to the eukaryotes (from the Greek ‘eu’ meaning ‘true’). Our cells do have cell nuclei but no cell walls. “

Micropia- 2014

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MICROPIA

g“Micropia is a museum in Amsterdam based on the idea of distributing information about microbes, which are often associated with illness and disease despite their essential function in the daily functioning of human life. The museum opened on 30 September 2014. It claims to be the first of its kind”

Holy heck- an amazing precedent. Mircopia is a museum based in Amsterdam and is the only museum is its kind- exploring and enhancing microbial life and placing microbes at the forefront for the general public.

“It adds an important new chapter to our tradition of collecting, displaying and experiencing the natural world. It is impossible to fully understand the interconnectivity of the natural world without knowledge of the most powerful, most successful and, at the same time, the smallest organisms. Microbiology can help solve global problems, from water purification to developing new ways to cure infectious diseases. It can produce energy, food and bio-plastics. There is no end to its uses.”

https://www.micropia.nl/en/

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You can’t see them, but they’re here. They are on you. In you. And you’ve got more than a hundred thousand billion of them. They’re with you when you eat, when you breathe, when you kiss. They are everywhere. On your hands. And in your belly. And they meddle in everything. They shape your world: what you smell, and what you taste; whether you get sick, or get better. They can save us or destroy us. Microbes: the smallest and most powerful organisms on our planet. We know very little about them, but can learn so much from them. About our health, alternative energy sources, and much more. When you look  from really close, a new world is revealed to you. More beautiful and spectacular than you could ever have imagined. Welcome to Micropia.

-Extract from Micropia exhibition.

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Week 7 Crit feedback/ reflection

JP- what are the projected images? - cancer cell is an interesting gesture and relationship between body and image is important. how can i take this further?

- travelling exhibition- how to bring this to public awareness, swabs

JN- political dimensions, bacterial agency, bacteria as the new labour force, human exploitation of microbes, bacterial fingerprint.

REFLECTION:

Going into the presentation feeling quite anxious and nervous, I think it overall went really well. My intentions and developing research proposal was received well from both the class and Julianna and Jacquie- the above notes were taken from Oscar during the feedback segment of the presentation. Moving forward I want to work on spatial contextualization of my project and manifesting my research on theory and bacterial theory and research into a spatial output.

#reflection #week7 #crit

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bacterial agency