Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres
Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres by Planetary Times fellow and Media Artist Connor Cook will be held from May 28-29 at Kunsthalle Giessen (our collaborative partner). The two-day workshop by Cook and Synthetic Biologist Darren Zhu comprises of a roundtable discussion on the theory of an “Informatic Evolution of the Planet”, a film screening & discussion, creating immersive audiovisual worlds using a Raspberry Pi enabled bioreactor (Pioreactor) as well as an audiovisual performance by the artist.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/planetarythinking/mediacollection/collection/summerworkshop2024
- Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres
- 2024-05-28T15:00:00+02:00
- 2024-05-29T19:00:00+02:00
- Planetary Times Summer Workshop 2024: Bioreactors and Biospheres by Planetary Times fellow and Media Artist Connor Cook will be held from May 28-29 at Kunsthalle Giessen (our collaborative partner). The two-day workshop by Cook and Synthetic Biologist Darren Zhu comprises of a roundtable discussion on the theory of an “Informatic Evolution of the Planet”, a film screening & discussion, creating immersive audiovisual worlds using a Raspberry Pi enabled bioreactor (Pioreactor) as well as an audiovisual performance by the artist.
May 28, 2024 03:00 to May 29, 2024 07:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
In the first part of this two-day workshop, we engage with the theory of an “Informatic Evolution of the Planet” through a transdisciplinary roundtable discussion. In an intensive workshop session on the second day, we aim to replicate this planetary dynamic on a micro scale, using a Raspberry Pi-enabled bioreactor (Pioreactor) to create immersive audiovisual worlds. The Pioreactor can cultivate, monitor, and control cultures of algae through real-time two-way communication with a computer. By algorithmically adjusting and monitoring the balance of light, nutrients, carbon dioxide, and algal growth, the Pioreactor acts as a simplified planetary model, illustrating the intricate interplay of biological matter, energy, and information within the Earth system. Registered participants will act as mediators, using the real-time data produced by algae as input to create live audiovisual worlds using the game design software Unreal Engine.
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- The working session on Day 2 (10:00 – 18:00) is for pre-registered participants only, whereas no registration is required for the other parts.
- Register via panel@planet.uni-giessen.de for Day 2 of the workshop by May 21, 2024 as the number of participants is restricted to 25 people.
The Planetary Times Summer Workshop is realized as a collaboration between Kunsthalle Giessen and the Panel on Planetary Thinking