I am part of this amazing collective experiment organized by the illustrious Heather Barnett, the doyenne of slime mold art and research, who has brought together a fantastic team of participants for a meet up in NYC.
Here is a link to her site for more detailed information:
http://heatherbarnett.co.uk/Projects/nodes-and-networks/
Nodes and Networks is a series of collective art and science experiments exploring biological systems as a model and metaphor for social intervention. Taking inspiration from slime mold navigation, bacterial communication, and insect cooperation, a group of artists, designers, and scientists are collaborating on a series of public experiments and interventions across New York City.
Throughout the first week of December, the interdisciplinary team will design experiments that test our collective intelligence in comparison to other, seemingly simpler, organisms. The team will invent experiments, games and activities to explore how the city behaves like an organism. Experiments will be based at the School of Visual Arts’ BioArt Lab, the Metropolitan Museums’ Media Lab, and public sites across the city. Additional participants are invited to join the experiment through public events on 2nd and 6th December.
The project was prompted by the First International Physarum Transport Networks Workshop to be held at Columbia University, 3-5 December 2015. As part of BICT (9th Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies) the scientific workshop is dedicated to a wide spectrum of research on slime molds including physics, cell biology, and genetics of Physarum polycephalum as well as sessions on Education & Science and Art & Science. The giant slime mold cell can mimic human transport systems and navigate efficiently through mazes in search for food. This fascinating foraging behaviour emerges from collective cellular interactions, networking without a brain.
Project lead, Heather Barnett, says “Nodes and Networks is a way of exploring the themes of the workshop creatively and from multipledisciplinary perspectives. Simple organisms like slime mold, bacteria and insects offer intriguing models to test how ideas spread, how group decisions are made and how communities cooperate. New York City is a perfect test bed for collective experiments.”
The multidisciplinary team leading the collective experiment includes artists, writers, architects and designers working with biological systems, and scientists from the fields of biophysics, ecology, genetics and neuroscience. Nodes and Networks brings these many heads together to create novel ideas and experiments through a creative emergent process.
projects:
events:
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Friday, October 25, 2019 - 18:00 - Sunday, October 27, 2019 - 20:00
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Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 09:00 - Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 21:00
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Friday, April 26, 2019 - 18:30 - 21:30
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Friday, March 29, 2019 - 20:00 - Sunday, March 31, 2019 - 18:00
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Sunday, June 24, 2018 - 09:00 - Saturday, July 7, 2018 - 19:00
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Friday, June 22, 2018 - 09:00 - Sunday, September 30, 2018 - 17:00
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Saturday, June 9, 2018 - 09:00 - 16:00
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Saturday, May 19, 2018 - 12:00 - Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 19:00
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Sunday, April 22, 2018 - 10:00 - 20:00
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Friday, April 13, 2018 - 19:00 - Sunday, April 15, 2018 - 14:00
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Friday, January 26, 2018 - 06:30 - 08:00
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Saturday, July 1, 2017 (All day) - Sunday, August 27, 2017 (All day)
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Friday, May 26, 2017 - 09:00 - Saturday, May 27, 2017 - 12:00
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Sunday, May 14, 2017 - 10:00 - 14:00
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Sunday, April 30, 2017 - 17:00 - 19:30
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Sunday, April 9, 2017 - 15:00 - 17:00
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 11:00 - 13:00
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 14:00 - 15:30
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - 09:00 - Monday, June 6, 2016 - 18:00
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Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 11:15 - 11:30
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 11:15 - 21:45
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 19:00 - Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 19:00
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Saturday, November 21, 2015 - 16:00 - 18:00
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Friday, September 18, 2015 (All day) - Sunday, December 6, 2015 (All day)
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Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 13:00 - 16:00
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Friday, April 17, 2015 - 16:00 - Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 19:00
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 (All day) - Wednesday, March 25, 2015 (All day)
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 17:00 - 21:00
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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 09:00 - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 23:00
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 09:00 - Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 22:00
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - 10:00 - Friday, July 25, 2014 - 16:00
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 18:00 - 19:00
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Saturday, March 15, 2014 - 09:00 - Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:00
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 16:00 - 18:00
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 11:00 - 12:15
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Friday, October 25, 2013 - 08:30 - Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 16:00
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Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 17:30 - 20:30
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Monday, September 16, 2013 (All day) - Tuesday, September 24, 2013 (All day)
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 - 15:00 - 18:00
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Saturday, May 25, 2013 - 11:00
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Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 15:00
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 19:00 - 21:00
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 14:00 - 16:00
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 19:30
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Sunday, September 30, 2012 - 18:30 - 21:00
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 17:00 - 21:00
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Saturday, August 25, 2012 - 13:00 - 16:00
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Friday, June 1, 2012 - 11:00 - 13:00
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Friday, February 17, 2012 - 18:00
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 12:00 - 14:00
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Friday, November 18, 2011 - 18:30 - Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 21:00
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Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 10:00
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Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 10:00 - 14:00
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Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 10:00
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 19:00
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 19:00
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Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 19:00
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 19:00 - 22:00
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 18:00 - 21:00
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Friday, April 16, 2010 - 20:00
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 19:00 - 21:00