Bio Economics

Michael Sedbon  has worked at HF Lab at a very large project completed in a time record of 5 months thanks to Sandrine D’Haene, our guest researcher Manuel Alfonso Soler, and the students in physics and chemistry Alexander Lambertz and Mees Dieperink.

On the 29th of November we were glad to show the 12 PBR for a total of 300 litres of spirulina. Constructed with integrated air, temperature, light and density sensors monitored by a central computer controlling an interactive light source.

Next to the challenge of building an impressive artwork, Michael has been able to program an artificial intelligence at the start of his nomination. Next to the beauty of the installation, Michael has focused his work on combining technology, biology with economy and politics. Two artificial ecosystems are dealing with resources, the light, and power through the financial market he has created via data collection, mainly the oxygen produced, processing and decision-making through genetic algorithms. At what type of organizational principle, sharing, competing, dominating, will the AI lead to?

Artist

I am an Interaction Designer, artist and life science researcher currently based in Paris

My work explores digital networked technologies and systems through their convergence with non-human intelligence (plants, unicellular organisms, insects, bacterias etc…) in regards to the Infocene problematics, seen as, our current cultural era where Information is the force having the biggest impact on human societies and environments.

I explores the relationship between the culture around Artificial and Biological intelligence by the making of bio-computers manipulating organisms through rules implemented in soft, hard and wetware, looking both at how biology influences computer science conceptually and at the impact of the implementation of computation and computational thinking to ecosystems.

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