A tool for speculative thinking and design.
By Saul Villegas & Silvana Moiceanu
Using the biodesign challenge as an opportunity to create an immersive bio art world as part of the What Makes Us Human exhibition and course at UCSC, Villegas and Moiceanu aim to shift and open new possibilities for experiencing and learning about art, biology, and technology — unbound by the physical non-virtual world. Placing the SCOBY art lab inside the virtual world is an example of what bio art virtual environment can be — as a unique new lens created to alter and reimagine how we view the natural world — just as the telescope, microscope, and camera lenses were invented to gain new perspectives for understanding and knowledge building — the lens of the virtual offers an alternative lens to peer through for discovery and innovation. The immersive lens of Worlds of Flora Fauna reimagines the natural world as an archive, with an ecocentric view on methods created with interactive taxonomies for human and non-human participants.
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