BIOS Zone 6: The Mobile Portal Unit

The Mobile Portal Unit is a work by Kim Newall, designed to perform, converse with and disrupt the lab using a signals and code. The unit connects Te Tai Tokerau to parallel realities created in collaboration with SEADS’ Biomodd [ABD14] project located in an empty phone shop in Aberdeen; a home in Bahia, Brazil; a site in Sansar VR, and a web-based VR lab.

Moving and Mad

The work has multiple elements including a VJ station, various computers receiving signals, monitors, audio exciters to generate sound, and its own projector. It is ever- changing with a role to change or subvert the content in the space.

The unit was Zone 6 of BIOS operated by Kim at select times during the lab, including performances in the space.

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BIOS Zone 5: The Evolving Zone

Zone 5 was an evolving zone featuring base content by Maggie Buxton documenting experiments with bio-plastics, 3D printing and stereo microscopy. Cylindrical lightboxes commissioned by Lindsay Marks displayed content from creatives participating in the Lab and collaborating with Maggie in an ever-changing constellation of digital and physical artefacts. At times, SEADS BIOMODD (ABD14) content appeared…

BIOS Zone 7: Future Fibres Research in Progress

An exciting element of BIOS (and the Awhi Incubator) were the community collaborations with Northland fibre artists and Toi Māori practitioners. After a fabulous workshop at Rawene, run by Dr Frances Joseph, Ako Hokianga arts coordinators Kara Dodson and Reva Mendes and tutors from Maunga Kura Toi: Lorraine King and Te Hemo Ata Henare presented…

BIOS Zone 3: Projection Testing Zone

A Space For Ideas to Come to Life A unique aspect of the BIOS lab was the opportunity for Awhi Incubator participants (and other creatives by appointment) to try out their digital content in a pre-existing container. Many artists don't have the technical skills or networks to move their analogue and/or 2D work into a…

BIOS and Biomodd Collaboration

A dynamic and evolving aspect of the BIOS lab has been AwhiWorld’s partnership with SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design), an international transdisciplinary collective.  Maggie and Kim are members of SEADS, exploring ways to activate portals between the BIOS lab in Te Tai Tokerau and SEADS, [Biomodd [ABD14]] installations in Scotland and Brazil, using signals…

BIOS Zone 1: umbilical affinities

Flasks sit, filled with unknown fluids. Tubes move liquid in and out, powered by an array of pumps. Signals arrive, signals are sent. Information is interpreted, and information is recorded. In umbilical affinities a series of pump systems distribute photosynthetic materials through light and dark, through triggers and sensors. Information from these systems is relayed…

BIOS Zone 4: The Xylemancer at BIOS

About The Xylemancer   The Xylemancer—an interactive installation in BIOS, presenting botanically minded verse selected and distilled solely from page 83 of hundreds of books. An algorithm selected the content for you as you step into the work. Original Form ThoTho made a hands-on form of the work during PlantLab (a previous AwhiWorld project), where…

BIOS Zone 2: The Space Between

In Alan Thomas’s work, The Space Between, images of microscopic living processes are projected onto blocks of dried and drying potters clay.  Drawing on bioreceptivity (the ability of a material to be colonised by living organisms), the work explores the resilience of life. Background Alan says, “The work started to emerge when my art practice…

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