Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture (River Publishers Series in Biomedical Engineering) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8770220727 ISBN 13: 9788770220729

Publisher: River Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

The slime mold Physarum polycephalum was a source of explosive growth of  bioengineered hybrid sensing and computing devices in the past decade. Being in its vegetative state--the plasmodium--the slime mold configures its protoplasmic network to optimize its geometry with relation to patterns of attractants and repellents.

The slime mold's adaptability, polymorphism and aestheticism inspired artists and architects. It has been seen as a self-conscious liquid form continuously changing its shape in response to external stimulation and due to interactions of thousands of micro-oscillators in its body. Elusiveness is a magic feature of the slime mold. One moment it mould gives you a solution to a mathematical problem by a shape of its body, the next moment it changes its shape and the solution disappears.

Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture presents a set of unique chapters written by leading artists, architects and scientists, which resulted from creative translations of slime mold behavior into forms and sounds, unconventional investigations and sensorial experiences and the slime mold ability to remove boundaries between living and artificial, solid and fluid, science and arts. The book gives readers unique tools for: designing architectural forms and creative works; understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life; and  sparking new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts, architecture, science and engineering.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Adamatzky is at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

About this edition

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 8770220727
• ISBN 13: 9788770220729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356
• Editor: Adamatzky Andrew