The software part of pond is almost ready and we’re now mounting all the bits and pieces together including the touch screens. Everything is working fine but we had a bit of troubles with the serial touchscreen, even though it is supposed to be working on Xorg, the calibration software provided by penmount is really outdated and produce bogus data.
Metabiosis – pond will be exhibited at the Netherlands Media Art Institute from the 15th of June until the 14th of July 2007
Opening: 16:00 o’clock – 15 June 2007
The 25th of April we will end our Fellowship at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln, with a presentation of Metabiosis, and 2 performances at the Klanglabor.
From the 16th of April until the 16th of June, we are working on Metabiosis at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, NL. We’ll be working on a new installation for 2 months, with the help of Tom Schouten, who will be developping Packet Forth, the language used to program the software running the installation.
Workshop Packet Forth!
16 December 2006
13:00 – 18:00
Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Koln, DE
Guests: Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk
Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln and GOTO10
Here are some photo’s of the Herbarium workshop, participants designing the “DNA” of their plant and some of the results of their efforts:
We are currently doing a series of 30 minutes long workshops with Amsterdam schoolkids aged 12 to 16. The classes visit the Netherlands Media Art Institute during the exhibition “Natural Habitat”. In the workshop they design their own virtual plants and make them grow on a computer. They give the plant a name and a short description. We collect all designed plants in our online Herbarium: http://metabiosis.goto10.org/herbarium
This saturday the exhibition “Natural Habitat” had its official opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Our installation “Go forth & *” had its first public appearance here. It was a great succes. The exhibition was visited by a large audience, due to the annual Museum n8, where 40 Amsterdam museums open their doors from 19.00 untill 2.00 and organize special events in between, on top of or next to their art works.
From the 1st of November 2006 until the 1st of April 2007, we are doing a Fellowship at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln. We will be working on the core software of the Metabiosis project for 6 months, we’ll be visiting the KHM for presentations, workshops and to participate in the classes of professor David Larcher.
We are very much looking forward to this period of development and exchange.
We’ve now implemented the jumping of datapackets from one ecosystem to the next. We have also been working on the visualisation of the process. Newborn packets are surrounded by a circle, fertile packets glow and dying packets fade… We will continue to work on the visualisation and networking of the ecosystems.
