Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

Andrew Adamatzky

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9788770220729
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000792485
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Art General

The slime mould 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 mould configures its protoplasmic network to optimize its geometry with relation to patterns of attractants and repellents.The slime mould's adaptability, polymorphism and aestheticism inspired artists and architects. The slime mould 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 mould. One moment the slime mould gives you a solution to a mathematical problem by a shape of its body, 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 the slime mould behaviour into forms and sounds, unconventional investigations and sensorial experiences and the slime mould 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 using the slime mould, understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life, it sparks new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts, architecture, science and engineering.

Table of contents

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