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Mushi (Jap.) Computer glitch. Reishi (Jap.) Mushroom of Immortality. Mushi_Reishi is an experiment in embodied intelligence and emergent behaviour, manifesting as organic-like structure. I wanted to imagine how a fungus would grow within an area from a single point without prior knowledge of its surroundings. This project isn’t at its final stage and the resin
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In_Organisms is an immersive and visually captivating animated short film, created in Unreal Engine, set within the intricate world of a gothic laboratory, where two artificial intelligences engage in a profound conversation about fried chicken. Powered by algae and fungi, these enigmatic beings embody distinct forms that shape their cognitive abilities. Algae, constricted to sensing,
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I took my early explorations in Stable Diffusion and developed a way to make more interesting images with them, and develop an artistic process that wasn’t the kitsch boring photoreal woman in place images that plague the internet since the growth of these generative models exploded this past year. My subject was the octopus, and
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Abstract This paper investigates what it means for something to be a city by viewing the city as a complex system. Building a framework of cybernetic organicity drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Yuk Hui, and Benjamin Bratton, this paper looks at the ways in which an organ upholds its boundaries through constant
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From the discussion in class, a point Malu raised is the binary between emittor and sensor. There is always from the point of view of the subject a binary between the subject itself and an object receiver or emittor of data. Thinking about this relationship, there are singulars that are produced from the multiplicities of
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For this week’s required blog post, I am uploading my first thinking around a number of quotes from Yuk Hui’s Recursivity and Contingency. The general thought I am exploring is around the idea of the city as a living thing, a superorgansim or a superorgan, something that does act in the interest of itself independent
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In_Organisms is an exploration of fictioning and embodied intelligence. Beginning as an idea to create a working sculptural algae bioreactor concept, the project evolved through the material constraints I put myself under, of recycling PET drinks bottles as the primary material of its production, into a pure speculative exercise. After modelling algorithmically an idea of
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The inspiratorial jumping off point for this project was the idea of creating an algae bioreactor using recycled PET bottles. DIY examples of such systems are relatively simple and have been made with a number of different designs. The purpose of this interest correlates with my interest in ecology and food production. Algae gain mass
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Some months ago I applied for and was accepted into the show: Visions in the Nunnery at Nunnery gallery, the location run by Bow Arts, with whom I have my studio. I spent the week before the install remaking the pyQT interface to be friendly to the gallery staff when turning the piece on and
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I’ve started this writing a thousand times and yet never. Overly concerned with response, I stare at the dying plant on the shelf, I drink the depressed whiskey, I read the prophetic blog post, and yet I lie in my pyjamas and concern for nothing. A ghost sits on my shelf, literally or not, figuratively,
Robin Leverton 