BIOS
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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… -
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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… -
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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,… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…
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