Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

ISBN-13: 9788770220729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 310 str.

Andrew Adamatzky

Opis

The book gives readers unique tools for designing architectural forms and creative works using the slime mould, understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life, it sparks new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts, architecture, science and engineering.

Spis treści

• Preface;
• 1. Introduction to the Myxomycetes;
• 2. Myxomycetes and art;
• 3. Many-Headed: co-creating with the collective;
• 4. A nonlinear approach to generate creative data using;
• 5. Physarum polycephalum-based memristors;
• 6. The Plasmodium Consortium: When art, science and design form a policy think tank;
• 7. Polycephalum Wetware. Reasoning across architecture, biology and computation;
• 8. Living screes. The foraging of atmospheric patterns;
• 9. Slimedia: Physarum as medium and cultural mediator;
• 10. Growing as building;
• 11. Reimaging city infrastructures with slime mould;
• 12. Disruptive material intelligence of Physarum: liquid architecture of a bio-logical geometry computer;
• 13. BioLogic. Living structures and swarm bodies;
• 14. Slime Intelligence;
• 15. Pulse, flow - artistic exploration of Physarum polycephalum;
• 16. Cell Memories;
• 17. Protoplasmic routes. A post-human vision of liveability and co-existence;
• 18. The Chemical Machine;
• 19. Ctrl: Quantify, Compare, Optimize, Repeat

O autorze

Andrew Adamatzky