BioMedia

Collectively, Timothy Rubio, Stella Brown, Catie Bryant, and I authored a media narrative of biological encounters that can be interpreted as proof equivalence to one of the NASA Life Detection paradigms for exoplanets from The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems NASA’s Definition of Life Our Central Question Design Feasibility We decided to use Creative Commons Media due to its accessibility and its usage laws. We were really interested in remixing what already exis

Challenge: Speculatively visualize a chronobiology comparison between a non-human organism/ecology and humans. This may be based on speculative time perception arrived at with media (sound or motion graphics) processed thru a simulated/biomimetic (software) clock & rate/speed adjusted via comparative data. For our Chronobiology project, Timothy Rubio, Stella Brown, Catie Bryant, and I decided to focus on the comparison between the speculative time perception of ruby-throated

Prior to even reading this article from the New York Times, I’m put into a flashback of a tangent from freshman year of high school in health class: The Great Mamut. We were discussing the resurgence of these creatures from the Ice Age, but my teacher was a bit silly in remembering the details of it making that a pretty big inside jokes between my friends and me (nerdy, yes). Looking at the year The Mammoth Cometh was written (2014), I wouldn’t be surprised if this was exact

Emulation & Propagation in Post-Traditional Ecologies As primarily a critical thinker and artist, I find lengthy scientific texts incredibly scary. This essay written by Timothy Weaver collected in Second Nature: Origins and Originality in Art, Science and New Media introduces readers at a great pace. Immediately, Biomimetics is explained to the reader as “design innovation inspired by nature” which I personally think is a perfectly clear cut definition.

The Challenge: Design a speculative indicator/sentry organism as an exercise into meta-scale biodesign for the future. Conceptual Design Design Feasibility Biodesign Scale Representation Biocultural Impact

As someone who finds bugs incredibly disgusting and scary, I am really interested in how large the scale of their uses is. I have always thought insects were just the bottom of the food chain and helped out here and there with decomposing or whatever, but after reading Jussi Parikka’s Nineteenth-Century Insect Technics my mind was opened to all of the possibilities that humans have based on what we have and will discover from our insect friends. I find the study of movement

After being introduced to the topic of BioMedia, we were challenged to notice some of the ways it has effects on our daily lives. Interaction One One of the more obvious ways that I see BioMedia in my everyday life now is with my dental implants. Originally, I didn’t quite understand how this wasn’t just a mechanical experience. It took me going into the oral surgeons office and having them work with the actual implants to realize how fused to my body and a part of me they we

I find that the overall concept and theory of BioMedia can be encompassed in the ways that life can be recorded as information. It always comes back to what a body can do . In the reading, Eugene Thacker tells us about the two ways that we can use on DNA by two separate fields. The first is done by computer scientists and involves jumping between computers and databases to predict protein combinations in a DNA sequence. The second is much more complicated for me to understand