Toolkits, manuals, video tutorials, 2016-2019
The project unfolds as a set of toolkits, which provide a framework for the interdisciplinary experiments on a DIY level and open up their accessible versions to a broader community. While quoting artworks, technology, and science, further questions arise, ranging from abstract, philosophical examinations of creativity and authorship to global concerns about what forces dictate the organization of humanity and determine our future as a society.
Featured are four toolkits, which include video tutorials, and manuals. While the toolkit “My Collaboration With Bacteria for Paper Production” focusses on symbiotic relationships between living organisms and non-living things, the “Mycorrhizal Networks or How I Hack Plant Conversations” gives an idea of interaction between elements of different kinds. The toolkit “Ultra-Low-Voltage Survival Kit” then explores the nature of the electrical signal and the toolkit “How I Prepare Myself to Be Cloned” questions the possibility of cloning one’s own body.
The manuals and video tutorials provided within the toolkits include directives for the experiments, artistic concepts, and references to artistic projects that could help to develop new aesthetic formats and experience art.
The project was kindly supported by the Nordic Culture Point and by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. It was executed in collaboration with many organizations and festivals, including the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Ars Electronica in Linz, Institutio Media and MO Museum in Vilnius, and Piksel festival in Bergen. Main contributors include Brigita Kasperaitė, Auksė Gaižauskaitė, Martin Howse, and Wolfgang Spahn.
Toolkits, manuals, and video tutorials
My Collaboration with Bacteria for Paper Production
Mycorrhizal Networks or How I Hack Plant Conversations
Ultra-Low-Voltage Survival Kit
How I Prepare Myself to Be Cloned
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