“The researchers decided to task the slime mold with a problem human designers had already tackled. They placed oat flakes (a slime mold favorite) on agar plates in a pattern that mimicked the locations of cities around Tokyo and impregnated the plates with P. polycephalum at the point representing Tokyo itself. They then watched the slime mold grow for 26 hours, creating tendrils that interconnected the food supplies. Different plates exhibited a range of solutions, but the visual similarity to the Tokyo rail system was striking in many of them”
I saw a couple of Roman Signer’s installation/pieces in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin on Thursday and have been looking at some videos of his work on youtube. Some of my favourites are below:
There’s an article in today’s Irish Times about Katie Holten’s Tree Museum and her upcoming show at the Hugh Lane as a part of the Golden Bough series. The Tree Museum was a public artwork that examined people’s relationships to trees in the Bronx area of New York through an audio guide featuring recordings of local people. Below is a short video about the Tree Museum and the audio recordings are available through her website.
A BBC Imagine programme about Anish Kapoor to coincide with his exhibition at the Royal Academy. It’s a great chance to see his studio and works in production including his computer made concrete pieces which I previously poasted about. Embedding has been disabled on the videos but here is a link to the documentary on youtube
