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Background
Background
In 2009, Multimedia Studies 198 was offered for the first time. It was wrapped around Biomodd, a new media art project started by Belgian artist and now TED Senior Fellow Angelo Vermeulen.
Biomodd is a collaborative art project conceived to challenge presumed notions of opposition between nature and technology in different cultures throughout the world. The project started in 2007 during a residency of Angelo Vermeulen at The Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio. Since then multiple versions have been built both by the people that originally came up with the idea, and by other communities throughout the world. Biomodd art works have been created and showcased in America, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. I have so far been directly involved in three Biomodd-related projects.
Biomodd[LBA2]
Biomodd[LBA2]
The second iteration of Biomodd was built and put on display in Los Baños, Laguna and Manila in the Philippines from February to October 2009. Its aim was to come up with a locally created art installation that would literally fuse a living ecosystem with a modified computer network. The final result was a monumental wood and glass "sculpture" that contained a system of recycled computers intertwined with an aquaponics system, and a multiplayer art game enabling visitors to directly interact with the piece.
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