http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/nature06293.html
A talk by CLAPPERTON CHAKANETSA MAVHUNGA Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is associate professor of science, technology, and society at MIT and visiting associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Mavhunga’s work engages the meanings of science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship from Africa in the long historical context, and their implications on how …
Off Book: Generative Art – Computers, Data and Humanity from PBS Digital Studios on Vimeo.
Unlike traditional microscopes that use optics to make small objects bigger, this new microscope uses a video camera and image processing to analyze and visualize the changes. It can magnify a variety of interesting and useful phenomena, from blood pulsing under our skin, to vibrations in pipes, engines, and throats, revealing a whole new world …
Michael Hansmeyer: Computational architecture (Worked with L-systems too) http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/#4 The living lab, David Benjamin http://www.arch.columbia.edu/labs/living-architecture-lab
“The synthetic leaf uses photosynthesis to produce oxygen, by absorbing light, water and carbon dioxide.” “The artificial leaves feature chloroplasts extracted from actual plant cells that are suspended in a material made from silk protein. So when given access to light and water they still produce oxygen, but they’re better suited to surviving off our …
Can complex, advanced civilizations really collapse? Excerpts from S. Motesharrei and E. Kalnay, “A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction,” 2012. modern civilization, armed with its greater technological capacity, scientific knowledge, and energy resources, will be able to survive and endure whatever crises historical societies succumbed to. In this paper we attempt to model …
from ESHEL BEN-JACOB’s BACTERIA ART GALLERY http://tamar.tau.ac.il/~eshel/html/Bacteria_art_gallery.html
Math + Meteorology = Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie ENM (http://www.enm.meteo.fr/) –the school I considered along with ENSIMAG + Biodefense –the stuffs I research = fascinating! (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/03/04/cbrne-external-meteorological-modeling-system/) because yeah… (illustrations from Dr. Zilinskas’ CBW course)
Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …