Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture
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Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

  1. 358 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

About this book

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum was a source of explosive growth of bioengineered hybrid sensing and computing devices in the past decade. Being in its vegetative state--the plasmodium--the slime mold configures its protoplasmic network to optimize its geometry with relation to patterns of attractants and repellents.The slime mold's adaptability, polymorphism and aestheticism inspired artists and architects. It has been seen as a self-conscious liquid form continuously changing its shape in response to external stimulation and due to interactions of thousands of micro-oscillators in its body. Elusiveness is a magic feature of the slime mold. One moment it mould gives you a solution to a mathematical problem by a shape of its body, the next moment it changes its shape and the solution disappears. Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture presents a set of unique chapters written by leading artists, architects and scientists, which resulted from creative translations of slime mold behavior into forms and sounds, unconventional investigations and sensorial experiences and the slime mold ability to remove boundaries between living and artificial, solid and fluid, science and arts. The book gives readers unique tools for: designing architectural forms and creative works; understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life; and sparking new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts, architecture, science and engineering.

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Information

Publisher
River Publishers
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9788770220729
eBook ISBN
9788770220712
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. RIVER PUBLISHERS SERIES IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. List of Contributors
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Chapter 1 - Myxomycetes and Art
  12. Chapter 2 - Introduction to the Myxomycetes
  13. Chapter 3 - Many-Headed: Co-creating with the Collective
  14. Chapter 4 - A Nonlinear Approach to Generate Creative Data Using Physarum polycephalum-based Memristors
  15. Chapter 5 - The Plasmodium Consortium: When Art, Science and Philosophy Form a Policy Think Tank
  16. Chapter 6 - Polycephalum Wetware: Reasoning across Architecture, Biology and Computation
  17. Chapter 7 - Living Screens: The Foraging of Atmospheric Patterns
  18. Chapter 8 - Slimedia: Physarum as Medium and Cultural Mediator*
  19. Chapter 9 - Explorative Growth for Art and Architecture
  20. Chapter 10 - Interspecies Urban Planning, Reimagining City Infrastructures with Slime Mould
  21. Chapter 11 - BioLogic – Living Structures and Swarm Bodies
  22. Chapter 12 - Slime Intelligence
  23. Chapter 13 - Pulse, Flow – Artistic Exploration ofPhysarum polycephalum
  24. Chapter 14 - Disruptive Material Intelligence of Physarum: Liquid Architecture of a Biological Geometry Computer
  25. Chapter 15 - Protoplasmic Routes: A Post-human Vision of Livability and Co-existence
  26. Chapter 16 - The Chemical Machine
  27. Chapter 17 - Cell Memories
  28. Chapter 18 - Ctrl: Quantify, Compare, Optimize, Repeat
  29. Index
  30. About the Editor
  31. Back Cover

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