(This is just an update on where I am for my final project)

For my final I will go ahead with the idea I developed for the midterm. I have been in contact with Cydney Vicentina from the Honors177 class. Her midterm proposal can be find here: https://www.biotechart.artscinow.com/node/1905

As our interests and thought seem to be meeting, we will collaborate on a text for the class publication, and as discussed with Alvaro, we might create a seperate category within the publication for this.

I started my blog with posting about sourdoughs made form ancient Egyptian yeast cultures. This one was followed by some writing about salt, artificial intelligence and ritual magic. Further along I touched on air quality in an artistic sense and on how to appreciate clouds. I also took a look from the distance onto planet Earth and the human made satellites that are tracking and documenting Earth’s wellbeing. (Let’s stay in space) I mentioned art in space – to be seen with the naked eye. From there I explored how slime mould can hep to map dark matter.

Cloaca Professional by Wim Delvoye (2010)

more info here

'Famously the very first instance of a computer bug was recorded at 3:45 pm (15:45) on the 9th of September 1947. This "bug" was an actual real-life, well ex-moth, that was extracted from the number 70 relay, Panel F, of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.

SLIME MOLD
(not a fungi)


Image from here

Trevor Paglen, Orbital Reflector, rendering. Courtesy of Trevor Paglen and Nevada Museum of Art.

Read about the project here

And how it got lost here

First: I found a website that shows global air quality in real time.

(I never thought I would write these 3 things combined in a blogpost headline)

I’m thinking a lot about memory right now. In connection to this I found a study that shows correlation of salt excess and memory loss. Apparently too much salt has a negative effect on holding memories.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientist-bakes-sourdough-bread-with-4500-year-old-yeast-found-in-egyptian-pottery/