Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto by Michael Sedbon is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Volafotsy in Famolavolana Fampisehoana Competition Category.
VolafotsyFampisehoana· 2023
Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto
Client: Michael Sedbon
A' Design Award Volafotsy Winner in Fampisehoana Category
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The Design
About Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto
Ny Cryptographic Beings dia fametrahana zavakanto izay mitahiry angona nomerika ao anaty ahidrano velona. Ny asa dia ahitana bits zavamaniry telopolo, ka ny tsirairay dia fitoeran-javatra vita amin'ny fitaratra misy ahidrano miendrika kofehy. Ny fotosintezy dia mamokatra kitapo entona kely, ka ny ahidrano dia mitsingevana rehefa misy hazavana ary milentika ao anaty haizina. Ny toetra tsirairay, na mitsingevana na milentika, dia maneho aotra na iray nomerika, ary ny fametrahana dia afaka mitahiry teny misy litera dimy. Sandry robotika mandeha amin'ny motera no mifehy ny hazavana mahatratra ny fitoeran-javatra tsirairay, ary sensor loko natao manokana no mamaky ny toetra tsirairay. Ny milina dia mandeha ho azy mandritra ny volana maromaro amin'ny fotoanan'ny fampirantiana.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award Volafotsy
Nandresy ny A' Design Award Volafotsy ny famolavolana Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana ambaratonga ambony, tsara tarehy ary mahavariana. Ny mpandresy Volafotsy dia asa mamirapiratra dia mamirapiratra ary mamorona dia mamorona izay maneho ny fahaizana, ny talenta ary ny fahamaotinan-tsain'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho asa mahagaga, ohatra tsara, mahay amin'ny asa ary vaovao amin'ny halalin-tsaina ny famolavolana Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Volafotsy ity dia fikarohana miavaka be ary ankafizina izay mahasoa ary mampandroso ny sisintanin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia. Ny famolavolana Cryptographic Beings Fametrahana Zavakanto dia famoronana mahazo fitaka be izay mamaly ny faniriana, mitondra fihetseham-po tsara ary mamelona fahagagana sy fahatalanjonana.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- 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. - Team Members
- Michael Sedbon
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