8. Extra Credit: biomodd

From Biomodd from week of 10/22

http://www.biomodd.net/overview/artist-statement

The structure of technology and living organisms has always been vastly different and no real connection between the two has been really seen. The only real comparison between the two is that both use electrical currents to function. This difference has been because the technology up to this point has not been available and the need for a combination of the two has been nonexistent. We have finally reached an age where the combination of the two seems to be possible and desirable. Culture has evolved to find saving the environment a top priority and design has become seemingly more important as of late as a sort of counter to the hardness and coldness of machines. Even some houses have become organic in that they use trees and vegetation for the structure and power of the house. It seems ironic then that recent technologies have moved to a more organic style. Flexible displays and fiber optic cables are just a few visual examples of this transition. This transition may be the effect of move towards technology becoming part of the person. Wearable displays and electronics will become everyday. The hybrid between the organic and the technologic is not only as part of a movement for a future in technology but also as a movement for art. A group known as biomodd uses technology and plants to create art projects as a way to reuse old computer parts and show how plants can be used a power source. One example of a project that was created was a secondhand computer that was made of scrap parts that was powered by vegetation and played modded open-source multiplayer games. The entirety of the project was to show the potential of using nontraditional objects to build fully functional computers as not only art, but also as a way to become part of a natural creative environment to create and establish new ways to build.