2010 – Cat Cat Revolution
‘Cat Cat Revolution’ is an iPad game which allows you to play a computer game with your cat. A custom furry casing with 10 holes is placed over the iPad, and the user can move a mouse across the screen...
View Article2012 – Cockroach Virtual Reality
Researchers at the University of Oulu (Finland) aimed to record the brain activity of cockroaches while in their natural habitat, but since this wasn’t technically possible they recorded the brain...
View ArticleThe Technological Herbarium (Book)
The Technological Herbariumby (subtitled “Vegetable Nature and New Technologies in Art Between the Second and Third Millennia”) by Gianna Naria Gatti discusses works of art combining vegetable nature...
View Article2010 – Godot Machine
The ‘Godot Machine’ is part of the ‘Ant Ballet’ project by Ollie Palmer. An ant is placed on top of a sphere, and the sphere always moves into the opposite direction of the ant, so the ant always...
View Article2010 – Ant Ballet
‘Ant Ballet’ uses a robotic arm which sprays out pheromone powder trails into an environment filled with ants. Since the ants will follow the trails this makes it possible to move the ants in a...
View ArticleIntroducing Pre-University College students Lucas, Tijmen and Caspar
We will be supervising Pre-University College students Lucas Slot, Tijmen el Baradi and Caspar Jacobs. The Pre-University College is part of Leiden University, and offers talented and highly motivated...
View ArticlePublication date for our Leonardo article
Though we already submitted our article Hybrid Biological-Digital Systems in Artistic and Entertainment Computing to Leonardo Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology in April 2011, we finally received...
View Article2012 – Closed-loop control of zebrafish response using a bioinspired...
Researchers at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University explored the interactions of zebrafish with a robotic-fish that autonomously observed and adapted to the live fish’s motion. An...
View Article2012 – Beaming into the Rat World: Enabling Real-Time Interaction between Rat...
Researchers from Universities in Spain, Germany, Austria, England and the US developed a virtual reality system designed to allow a human and a rat to interact with each other. Interestingly the human...
View ArticleCall for papers on Hybrid Biological-Digital Systems
There is a call for papers for the “7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies”, Maarten Lamers and me are co-chairs of the track “Hybrid Biological-Digital Systems”...
View Article2014 – Fish Plays Pokemon
‘Fish Plays Pokemon’ created by Catherine Moresco and Patrick Facheris, makes a fish navigate a game of Pokémon by swimming around inside of its fish tank. The tank is divided in nine areas which...
View Article2013 – The Poo Printer
‘The Poo Printer’, a project by artist Fabrizio Lamoncha, attempts to have a group of zebra finches generate typography by having them poo on a piece of paper. from We Make Money Not Art: The Poo...
View Article2014 – The Biophonic Garden
‘The Biophonic Garden’, by German artist Sebastian Frisch, has the submerged roots of sprouted corn grow towards a constant sine tone of 220 hertz. from Sebastians homepage: Biophonic Garden uses an...
View ArticlePresentation at “The Overkill Festival”
We presented our “Evolving Game Terrains through Living Organisms” project at the Overkill Festival, a 48 hours non-stop Art ,video game and Film festival. When: 25-01-2015 Where: Rijksmuseum Twenthe,...
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