Mindaugas Gapševičius

Mycorrhizal networks or how I hack plant conversations @ TOP

Workshop with Mindaugas Gapševičius and Alessandro Volpato
Sa, 17.03.2018. (15:00 – 18:00), TOP, Schillerpromenade 4, 12049 Berlin

Fungi are able to biodegrade organic and inorganic elements, including slowly degradable elements such as cellulose, toxins, and heavy metals. Fungi are also known for being able to transport chemical elements within their networks and their ability to exchange chemical elements with plants.

“Shared Habitats” – Media Art and Design students exhibit in Taiwan

20 – 30 November 2017
Location: Jhongdou Wetlands Park and 116 Art Center, NKNU
Curators: Prof. Ursula Damm and Mali Wu

The Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University, has invited 11 artists and 9 pieces from the Media Art and Design degree course at the Faculty of Art and Design of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar to feature an exhibition and interactive workshops in the Jhongdou Wetlands Park and 116 Art Center, NKNU, carrying out interdisciplinary collaboration under the theme of »Art, Technology and Ecology«. The exhibition will run from 20 to 30 November 2017.

How I prepare myself to be cloned

Toolkit

Cloning is a complex issue involving scientific knowledge, civil law, and ethical questions yet to be solved by humanity. On the other hand, the methodology used for cloning animals is not that complex and could be easily imagined with the use of simple tools. Referring to mythological hybrids like centaurs, mermaids, and minotaurs, the toolkit, the tutorial, the paper, and a number of experiments associated with the manipulation of a genome, the project aims at envisioning possible shapes, functions, and needs of non-human humans. Continue reading “How I prepare myself to be cloned”

Mycorrhizal networks or how I hack plant conversations

Toolkit

One of the scientific terms defining plant interaction is allelopathy, a phenomenon wherein compounds produced by one plant affect the growth of surrounding plants. The compounds produced are released into the soils or taken in by symbiotic fungi and further transported over mycorrhizal networks to the target plants within the same community in order to resist invasive species. Why would fungi and plants interact with each other? How would that happen? And what further picture could be drawn from this interaction?

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Ultra low voltage survival kit

Toolkit

All matter has electrical properties. Granted, electric signals in carbon-based organic matter and silicon-based computational machines are of same nature, the Ultra-Low-Voltage Survival Kit explores the idea of generating electricity with human body. While practically letting the user of the toolkit move subatomic particles in and out of the body, the project invites one to experience electricity. Proposing to power computational machines by own body the project also suggests to critically evaluate technology further becoming part of human bodies. Continue reading “Ultra low voltage survival kit”

My collaboration with bacteria for paper production

Toolkit

The project provides tools that invite the user to explore their own relationships with organisms and to grasp invisible creatures surrounded by the outer world. By using SCOBY as a metaphor for the complex organization of microorganisms, the experimentation reflects on the role of a single organism in relation to its environment.
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0.30402944246776265 @ Pixxelpoint

27 November until 4 December, 2015. Nova Gorica City Gallery
Curated by Igor Štromajer

This year’s festival continues the collaboration with the School of Art of the University of Nova Gorica and the Gorizia-based Lucide. With 57 contributing artists, we invite you to an exhibition taking place in three venues – Nova Gorica City Gallery, Nova Gorica School of Art and the Gorizia Chamber of Commerce.

0.30402944246776265 @ Centras/Remediation

21st – 31st October 2015
International Media Arts and Music Festival “Centras”

The exhibition “Remediation”, prepared by the guest curator Jurij Dobriakov, is an attempt to answer a question if during the last 15 years there was a strong and vital scene of media art in Lithuania. Here the media culture is a problematic category – contemporary artists undoubtedly use some kind new media in their creative work, nevertheless only few identify themselves as media artists. This exhibition of 10th media arts and music festival is probably the best opportunity to conclude these occurrences and processes in one space and to consider if they gave birth to more or less solid discourse of Lithuanian media art.

An Artistic Perspective on Distributed Computer Networks. Creativity in Human-Machine Systems

Thesis Title: An Artistic Perspective on Distributed Computer Networks. Creativity in Human-Machine Systems

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Fuller, Dr. Mark Bishop
August 2015

Centre for Cultural StudiesGoldsmiths University of London
Submitted for MPhil degree
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Tech rider

Instructions for the Physical Space

There are no particular requirements for the space where the installation of the artwork has to be presented, except that the monitors displaying the visualization of the software have to be traced by the viewers to the installation. The minimal requirements for the installation are three computers, say A, B, and C, so they show connectivity dynamics within the ensemble: A -> B -> C -> B -> C -> B -> A, etc. These dynamics may already demonstrate a feature of (social) self-organization or simply map transferred data chunks within the virtual environment. It is suggested that the computers installed in the space are visually different, so the idea of the specificity or uniqueness of interaction between elements is present. Continue reading “Tech rider”