Living Interface

The topic of the project works between interactiondesign and the biology.It concerns the communication between animal and the machine. The animal represents the user of a system and has the possibility to intervene. The User of the System are the so-called „Daphnien". These organisms are placed under a microscope and form an interface in the system cycle. Thus they have access to all processes in the computer and are able to manipulate them. The animal communicates with the computer and the borders between technology and the animal world blurs.
developed by Marc Nonnenmacher (FH-Würzburg 2007)

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Tags:

• living
• interface
• daphnien
• bioart
• marc
• nonnenmacher
• interactive
• design
• interaction
• biology
• animal
• control
• machine

[aznk1d2]

what type of animal is this?

[nonnicram]

They are called "Daphnia". from wikipedia: Daphnia are small, mostly planktonic, crustaceans, between 0.2 and 5 mm in length. Daphnia are members of the order Cladocera, and are one of the several small aquatic crustaceans commonly called water fleas because of their saltatory swimming style (although fleas are insects and thus only very distantly related). They live in various aquatic environments ranging from acidic swamps to freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and rivers.

[lostraver]

Looks like Caught faries in a box!

Wow!

[jurisKaste]

@bitesizerick Me Too :D

[bitesizerick]

lol i thought the microscope was a turntable

[khindaharman]

bandar kuta

[yurasleepless]

well

you should put your mother inside that box and let her run to death :D

[Algidcomedy]

genius

[YuLOOKINatMElikeDAT]

so like, the little organisms under the microscope control the light thing in the beggining and end?

and u said they "manipulate" the programs so does that mean they learn from it?

[daverocker1]

Are they like copepods?

[Icix1]

computers of the future man...bacteria based