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Virophilia Cookbook for the Virophilia-ists in the 22nd Century

PEI-YING LIN VIROPHILIA the virus scroll, with 5000 different virus names, 90 cm x 540 cm. cook book with virus imagery (2018-2020) This project comes from a very simple question: Can we start to see the connotation of viruses differently, especially those that causes infectious diseases? The reason why such question is being asked has a very strong historical and scientific background. In biological definition, viruses, unlike bacteria, are not consider as ‘living’. It is due to the fact that viruses themselves do not equip with essential components that can facilitate their replication. In other words, viruses cannot replicate themselves. They are doomed to be the ‘parasites’ on living creatures, and human is one of them. When viruses borrow our cells as their replication factories, our body system become unstable, our body immune system reacts, and at the macro scale we get sick. Though the interaction is much more sophisticated than how we commonly understand. The biological world is vast and evolving. We as one of the biological habitants that share the same basic building blocks with other living and semi-living things, we are born to be included in the cycle of evolutions. We share the same genetic codes with viruses, and for their semi-living status, we have not yet develop a medicine to cure them but only merely stop them from further replicating. At the same time, not all viruses are pathogens. New discoveries of beneficial viruses are starting to reveal, some are even crucial for our survival. The amount of viruses surrounding us also vastly outnumber what we have known now. To make it short, human and viruses depends on the existence of each other. Evolution is a non-stoping competition and collaboration. This project is to investigate the possibilities of human-virus encounter in the realm of culture through different facilitation of events, performances, and materiality to build up new discourse and sensible understandings. Virophilia Installation at Dancemakers, Amsterdam Virophilia Installation, at Quasi-Nature. The roll containing all the known viruses mater species up to date (2019), which very likely only contains 10% of the viruses on Earth. Pei-Ying Lin Artist and designer from Taiwan and based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She focuses on exploring science and human society through artistic methods and is particularly interested in building a common discussion ground for different cultural perspectives regarding elements that constructs our individual perception of the world. Recently she has been focusing on manipulating the boundary of invisible/visible, living/non-living and finding ways to build tools and methods that facilitate such explorations. http://peiyinglin.net

Contactless Root Interface Interactive installation presented in 2020 at the Rotunda Gallery, University of Arts in Poznań Photos by Katarzyna Czerniak

PIOTR SŁOMCZEWSKI CONTACTLESS ROOT INTERFACE interactive computer work/ installation, 2019 Artist is interested in building simple algorithms, with the help of which he can create a new situation to interact with other people. Contactless Root Interface was inspired by drawings of root networks by Fortunata Obrąpalska. A simple application using geometric forms constantly draws a dynamic and ever-changing graphic network that records the movement of people in the room. Piotr Słomczewski He graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań, where he currently works as an assistant in the Studio for Transdisciplinary Projects and Research. He works in the area of interactive multimedia installations and new technologies. An important part of his creative activity are also artistic and educational workshops. He presented his works at many individual and collective exhibitions, incl. in Poznań, Łódź, Kraków, Birmingham, Berlin and Florence. pan.synestetyk.pl Photo by Katarzyna Czerniak.

Marsquakes Video stills

JADWIGA SUBCZYŃSKA MARSQUAKES video, 2019 In the times when American teenagers are trained in the field of everyday life on Mars, scientists make a research on the taste of crops cultivated on Mars and Moon soil simulants – Mars as a vision of second home ceases to be an illusion and it becomes a reality. Anthropocene brought us new materiality, we are filtered with microplastics, and our everyday life is increasingly moving into the digital dimension. In the movie Marsquakes, the idea of digital plants is an optimistic the vision of transferring human needs for existing with flora to another level. Perhaps the human flight to Mars is not an escape but comes from the desire to discover new quality. Plants in this video are being the sum of data drifting in the air, they are visible to a human only to make him feel good and secure with the calming effect of green. They do not need roots nor soil, because they have the internet instead. this is manifesto written by a planetary rover far from a distant planet dear people stop miniaturizing begin with revolutionizing the idea of freedom and ownership before your cosmic law will turn into marsquakes a career in the space becomes digging a hole escaping from the cosmic radiation writing a theory of taste of martian wine to be felt by an additional robotized tongue in my dreams romanticized flora morphs into a virtual organism levitating freely with no roots, no soil Jadwiga Subczyńska Polish new media and interdisciplinary artist, based in Poznań, graduated from the Faculty of Photography of the University of Arts in Poznań. A member of the Scientific Society of Photography. In her works she uses a wide range of medium, including plant gelatin casts, holographic installations with the use of 3D, art books, and AR video. The topics she touches revolve around the Anthropocene era and its new materiality, extraterrestrial vision of the world and an idea of coming back to the roots. In her work, she integrates mystical perception of reality with scientific fantasy and technology. In the 2018 she won the main prize of OFF_Festival in Bratislava, a modern photography festival in Slovakia.

Drifting Particles Photos of the objects

JADWIGA SUBCZYŃSKA DRIFTING PARTICLES installation, 2020 A vision of an intelligent substance that multiplies itself by taking control of the post-apocalyptic reality. Biomass occupies dead reservoirs, the blue depths of water that man has condemned to exhaustion from life. It often takes anthropomorphic shapes, making ironies about the human shape. Intelligent, superspecific matter, the essence of which emerges from the Earth’s interior like gel lava. Objects accompanying video projection create a specific ecosystem which, thanks to its sensitive tissue, is constantly changing under the influence of oxygen and light. The burning plants above the dead reservoir drift in space, distributing information gathered in their specific layers together with the smoke. A man can see how intelligent matter finds its place in the physical world with the help of a digital device. Jadwiga Subczyńska Polish new media and interdisciplinary artist, based in Poznań, graduated from the Faculty of Photography of the University of Arts in Poznań. A member of the Scientific Society of Photography. In her works she uses a wide range of medium, including plant gelatin casts, holographic installations with the use of 3D, art books, and AR video. The topics she touches revolve around the Anthropocene era and its new materiality, extraterrestrial vision of the world and an idea of coming back to the roots. In her work, she integrates mystical perception of reality with scientific fantasy and technology. In the 2018 she won the main prize of OFF_Festival in Bratislava, a modern photography festival in Slovakia.

Broken Links Performance made on September 16, 2019 at the 18th Congress of European Mycologists (photo documentation by Jadwiga Subczyńska)

MARIA SUBCZYŃSKA BROKEN LINKS interactive installation, performance (date) The work’s title is a wordplay referring to broken connections between man and nature; broken links to the Internet (Wood Wide Web); broken bonds with ourselves. The aim of the work is to rebuild the relationship of man with the Heart of the Nature. Forest is a well communicated environment – when we open ourselves to discover interdependencies between network actors, we find great wealth, biodiversity, and we learn about life, death and rebirth. That is what mushrooms teach us – they are like the interface between the beginning and the end. They take care of the closing of the cycle, the circulation of matter, they are the organism in between. They teach us to let go of what was to go to make space for a new one. They also teach us how to accept what has been supplanted by our culture: death, old age, decay, disease. Mushrooms are guides to recovery. They teach us about boundary states, transient, healing what is not pampered, building space for a healthy relationship with the difficult areas of our reality, showing their deep meaning and broadening the spectrum of vision. Maria Subczyńska She graduated from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the University of Arts in Poznań. She creates art inspired by mycelium, inter-species communication and love. She seeks ways to “rebuild links”, to create a language that would have the power to create bonds, to exchange inter-genre messages. She feels like an ambassador of plants, fungi, stones, minerals and animals on Earth.

Mikoryzator Photo documentation from Tour Salon

MARIA SUBCZYŃSKA, PIOTR SŁOMCZEWSKI MIKORYZATOR art installation, workshop, art education tool, from 2014 onwards Today, various forms of mycorrhiza ensure the existence of 85% higher plants around the world. This fact inspired a creation of a project on work about the communication of plants with humans. It was initiated in 2014 by the former UAP student Maria Subczyńska, who was fascinated by the discovery of information on the existence of connections of the mycorrhizal network in the context of the Wood Wide Web. In further cooperation with Piotr Słomczewski, the project has become the basis of various workshops and activities, stimulating cognitive and creative processes, as well as supporting interpersonal communication and teamwork. Inspired by an unusual underground world of root plant and mushroom networks, an interactive art installation reflects on the uniqueness of natural forms. It has been continuously growing into various forms of interactions with its creators and viewers or participants. Mikoryzator Modeling clay elements and electronics uesd in the interactive installation built during the Mikoryzator workshop

Model Motion Markers for Rhino + Rhino + (Faheem Ahamed) Capture standard T-pose grasshopper grasshopper Equipment Body Markers for (OptiTrack) Dimensions Sitting Poses Reorientation of Body Models in Modelling Seat Surface .obj Beanbag Human Body Sitting Poses Seat Surfaces Essential Vertices Rhino Model and Export/ Photos of Model snapping to for each Seat Surface Import 3D Model Sitting Pose Detailed/Smoothened of Human Body MoCap Markers in Sitting Poses Seat Surface Supports (Roots) Articles, References Ergonomic Behavioural Analysis Observations Processing Processing Branches Start Rhino + + Interactivity: Coordinates Generative Branches End grasshopper grasshopper Algorithm Customer Coordinates modi es Iteration Number Variable Radius Rhino (Space nal chair shape Last Branches Mesh generation Colonization) and colour Coordinates .txt Optimization for .stl 3D Printing scheme Branch Colours around the 3D printing Export/ Tree Structure Export/ SLA Import Import (Cocoon) web camera customer defined_not The process defined_not chair visualizations

DIANA TAUKIN DEFINED_NOT Defined_not is a definition of furniture, which does not determine its final shape; an interactive algorithm generating in real time unique, unpredictable, customized chairs. It was inspired by optimization in nature and the intrinsic beauty of genuinely functional natural structures. The core of the project is generative algorithm Space Colonization, which in real time builds an optimized tree like structure from a set of starting points on the ground to the previously generated seat surface. Fleeting fashions in design contribute to the problem of waste, which can be reduced by prolonging the life span of products. Personalized one-off items, as well as building an emotional connection through user involvement in the design process, show to increase longevity. Digital manufacturing and parametric design tools, used in the project, allow for an automatic adjustment of the chair dimensions to fit a particular person and for production of one-off pieces. To expand the number of use scenarios, Motion Capture and surface fitting were used to register a set of non-standard sitting poses and offer them to customer’s choice. Defined_not is an interactive application allowing users to influence the result, by reshaping the seat surface, changing the level of detail, and adding colour with the use of web camera. Such democratization of design lets users express their creativity thus creating a deeper emotional connection with the item. defined_not defined_not Testing the users’ iner face Small scale prototypes Diana Taukin architect and furniture designer; lecturer of Parametric Design course at the University of the Arts Poznań. In design practice, Diana Taukin analyses the world and encodes it in with the use of the algorithmic approach and computational tools. She chooses to focus on the process instead of the product. Interactive features of her projects enable users to co-create the products, thus democratiz-ing the design process. Artist perceives the complexity and randomization of generative algorithms mimicking nature as effective, design co-creators. https://dianataukin.wixsite.com/portfolio

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