Argent Instal·lació · 2023
Cryptographic Beings Instal·lació Artística
- A' Design Award d'Argent 2023 in Instal·lació
- CLIENT: Michael Sedbon
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,566
- Verification code 3DC9980CF9 · Verify this award
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About Cryptographic Beings Instal·lació Artística
Cryptographic Beings és una instal·lació artística que emmagatzema dades digitals en algues vives. L'obra consta de trenta bits vegetals, cadascun un recipient de vidre que conté algues filamentoses. La fotosíntesi produeix vesícules de gas, de manera que les algues suren amb la llum i s'enfonsen en la foscor. Cada estat de flotació o d'enfonsament representa un zero o un u digital, i la instal·lació pot emmagatzemar una paraula de cinc lletres. Uns braços robòtics motoritzats controlen la llum que arriba a cada recipient, i un sensor de color personalitzat llegeix cada estat. La màquina funciona de manera autònoma durant mesos al llarg d'una exposició.
About the A' Design Award d'Argent
Cryptographic Beings Instal·lació Artística és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent, un reconeixement extraordinàriament prestigiós concedit a dissenys d'alta gamma, esplèndids i impressionants. Els guanyadors d'Argent són obres tremendament brillants i summament creatives que il·lustren la perícia, el talent i la perspicàcia excepcionals dels seus dissenyadors. Es preveu que Cryptographic Beings Instal·lació Artística sigui una obra meravellosa i de gran lluïment, remarcablement professional i profundament innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award d'Argent és un invent molt notable i admirat que beneficia i fa avançar els límits de l'art, la ciència, el disseny i la tecnologia. Cryptographic Beings Instal·lació Artística és una creació molt envejada que evoca desitjos, introdueix sentiments positius i desperta sorpresa i admiració.
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- Unique Properties
- Cryptographic Beings is a technological proposal that leverages our ability to control and abstract biology to perform digital information storage.
Marimos are large spherical colonies of algea.
Photosynthetic activity produces gas vesicles visible to the naked eye
This property allows them to float when exposed to light and sink in the dark
This property is used to store digital data: The floating or sinking state representing digital 0s or 1s
This robotic setup is capable of storing a 5 letter word - Dimensions & Packaging
- Width : 60 cm
height : 300 cm
Depth : 60 cm
Weight : 300 Kg - Tags
- Artificial Living Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Bio-Hybrid Computers, Living Machines, New Media Art, Robotic
- Production Technology
- This work was developed as part of an ongoing research project on bio-hybrid computation exploring the possible morpho-space of computing devices. Michael Sedbon questions the information-processing properties of living matter through the creation of novel technologies embed into sculptural artefacts.
This work has been developed as a functional prototype of a digital data storage device on vegetal media. It uses living algae, custom electronic and software code to store information. - Design Challenge
- Cryptographic being is both a technological and an artistic proposal. The technology used to store digital information in vegetal media is a pure creation for this work. During its development, numerous technical challenges such as the design of custom sensors and engineered mechanical parts had to be overcome.
As an artistic project, it also had to communicate its (highly technical) subject in an understandable manner. Great care was placed in rendering biological processes visible. - Research
- Living organisms perceive and interact with their environment through computation. Recent advances in the life sciences allow researchers and designers to envision machines of new kinds that leverage the massive and specific capacities of living matter in computing.
How would these bio-hybrid machines change our perception of nature and culture, what can be used to compute, what can be computed and what form will they take? These are the question this work approach. - Inspiration
- The first part of the 20th century witnessed simultaneously the discovery of the basis of information storage in DNA and the revolutions of the modern computing era.
Since then, the fields of computer science and modern biology have co-evolved in a conceptual framework that looks at life as an information processing system and at digital computations as Intelligence.
This cultural relationship is allowing us to design new kinds of bio-hybrid computers leveraging the massive capacity of life. - Project Duration
- The project was conceptualised and prototyped in summer 2021. The production occurred from September 2021 to March 2022. This work was shown at Au Dela Des Pixel, a digital art exhibition curated and organised by 36 Degres, in March 2022 in Paris.
- Operation Flow
- This autonomous machine consists of an array of 30 vegetal bits made of filamentous algae held in glass vessels. The control of the information flow is handled by a set of specifically developed robotic arms that control photosynthetic processes in each of the bits. The state of each bit (the digital information) is retrieved by a custom-made device based on a colour sensor.
The machine is designed to run autonomously for months throughout an exhibition.
