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Behind BIOMODD [LBA2]:Notes from a cross-cultural new media art collaboration (2010)
RESEARCH COLLOQUIUMSCHOOL OF INTERACTIVE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGYSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY24 MARCH 2010
DIEGO MARANAN [email protected]
With slides from Angelo VermeulenThis presentation is available online at http://is.gd/aX5ai
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Cast of Characters (5 minutes)Angelo, Diego, Lai, Vanessa, The Team, The Philippines
BIOMODD Version 1: Ohio (5 minutes)Themes; the process; the outcome
BIOMODD [LBA2]: Intro (10 minutes)How we met; how we assembled a team; how we tried to get funding; what we built
BIOMODD [LBA2]: Stories (16 minutes)The stories behind some components/subsystems
Now what, so what? (4 minutes)
This presentation is available online at http://is.gd/aX5ai
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
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CORE MEMBERS: 2 – 12
TEAM MEMBERS 38+
MAILING LIST ONLY 70+
The team
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Vanessa LiwanagTraditional Arts Liaison{NGO+, art+, new media art-,euro-american artists-}
Diego MarananProject Co-Lead, Producer
{north/south east/west relations+, facilitation+,
production-, visual art-}
Angelo VermeulenProject Co-Lead, Artistic Director{new media art++, facilitation-, developing south-}
Lai del RosarioProject Manager, Fundraiser/Agent
{social events+, putting together exhibits+, new media artists-, new media funding-}
Biomodd [LBA2]: A sampling of the team
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Al-Francis "King" LibreroBiomodd [LBA2] Continuator
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BIOMODD Version 1: Athens, Ohio(2007-2008)
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Biomodd [ATH1]: Themes
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Biomodd [ATH1]: Themes
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Biomodd [ATH1]: Process
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Biomodd [ATH1], 2007-2008BIOMODD [ATH1]: Details
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BIOMODD [ATH1]: Details
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BIOMODD [ATH1]: Details
HYBRID ART NOMINEE
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BIOMODD [LBA2]: Introduction
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How it started
The Open University
Pitching the idea
Faculty mulling over
Our new laboratory. Thanks, Open U!
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Laguna: Los Banos and Paete
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How we assembled a team
Radio interview Talks
Schmoozing and partying
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Our website
Our mailing list
How we assembled a team
Book your seat in the Manila-Los
Banos shuttle now! Please?
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How we assembled a team
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2How we funded ourselves
Major art grant applications
Major rejections
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Biomodd [LBA2], 2009
How we funded ourselves
Cash is hard to come by. Don't expect it.
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Creative liquidation of in-kind donations
Flirting with corporations
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NIDO™ Fortified Milk is a product of Nestlé ©
Flirtation with corporate sponsorship. It failed, and I'm glad it did.
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Biomodd [LBA2], 2009
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BIOMODD [LBA2]: STORIES
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In the new culture you're working in, what is already automated?
How does this impact workflow/budgeting/logistics?
(Unavailability of automated systems = increased reliance on
human labour.)
The wooden case
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RMX2 (2004)Belgium
Biomodd [ATH1] (2007-2008)USA
What is local, what is imported/appropriated, and why
those choices? (Why not use local algae?)
Ubiquity Reuse"Infect" the algae strainUniversal mix
The algae
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We need Pentium IVs.
What counts as disposable in another culture? (Pentium IVs are not secondhand.)
What are the minimum requirements for the process? For the product?
What are your collaborators' assumptions? (Try to uncover as many of them. Be persistent!)
Uh-oh.
The networked computer system (1/3)
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Hybridity in the Philippines (and other colonized cultures): Appropriating, mocking, enriching colonizers' cultures and technologies
The networked computer system (2/3)
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Is everyone using words in the same way?
What are the higher-level themes so that concepts can be ported across contexts? (Greenhouses are not usually practical in tropical climates.)
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How can digital technology be fused with biological systems?
fusion = symbiosis
What can we do with
excess heat?
Verm
eulen (2009) Corrupted C
#n#m#
FLU
Xspa
ce, P
hiladelphia
In NGO-speak, community refers to
indigent groups.
The networked computer system (3/3)
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Should all ideas/symbols/beliefs be remixable? What about sacred symbols? What about symbols that are sacred not to you, but to someone else? Do you need permission to remix? From whom?
Mount Makiling
Mariang Makiling
Mount Banahaw(in another province)
Putting Banahaw as a character would be like
placing a Marvel character into a DC comic. If this were all a parody, why not? But it's not.
Is remixing parody?
The game
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What aspects of the project should be bottom-up? What can be top-down?
What is the "basis of unity"? What's the conflict resolution strategy? Is there a clear structure of power?
What if the tradition needs changing?(But who am I to know and to say?)
A hybrid sci-fi/traditional Filipino carving would be cool!
Is what we're doing respectful of tradition?
We made a different design. We took ownership! That's a good thing, right?
But… but…
Uh-oh. Mediation time.
The wood carvings
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Systems I won't talk about
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Now what, so what?
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Follow-up studies.
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Now what, so what?
Thank you
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