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Strange Intelligences Lab Open Studio and BioSignals
As part of the Whangarei Fringe Festival, we opened our studio to conduct community-based research for the culmination of the BioSignals Project and as a way to feed our Strange Intelligences Lab… -
Crafting Strong and Strange BioLeather
We've been experimenting with making bioleather from SCOBY for our Strange Intelligences Lab It is a plant-based alternative to animal leather but made out of SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast).… -
Making a Fabulous Mossarium Ecosystem
Creating mossarium ecosystems to learn about the strange intelligence of mosses for our Strange Intelligences Lab In the last few months, Maggie B has been experimenting with growing mosses of different kinds… -
Installation Prototyping
Plants are sending signals within a suburban mall thanks to Kim's hard work today on our bioSignals project. Our shop in The Strand Arcade now has the bones of an installation in… -
Pathways to Resilience
BioSignals continues ... our resilience garden is coming along nicely. We've been out in the garden, preparing pathways, mulching and planting in and around our Resilience Garden (formerly The Chicken Garden). … -
BioPlastic Experiments
BioSignals and bioplastics - experiments with resilient and highly noxious weeds. Stopping the Moth Plant (Araujia hortorum) in its tracks is many a conservationist's dream. In NZ, the plant is disturbingly known… -
Climate Change, Biodiversity and IoT
BioSignals explores climate change and biodiversity using IoT systems to generate and send signals from plants. Climate change is causing extreme weather events to increase, altering rainfall patterns, raising temperatures, and warming… -
Proof of Concept – BioSignals
BioSignals has begun! Kim has set up a prototype IoT-based biosignal system using the Aloe Vera plant in our studio space. The system configuration is: ESP32 microcontroller Sensors: DHT11 (temperature and humidity), Light-dependent… -
Invoking Resilience and Protection
Plants are essential for human existence, giving us air, food and shelter. For many cultures, they are also at the core of cultural and spiritual practice. Providing protection, supporting resilience and expanding… -
Peering at Plants
Microscopy is a core part of AwhiWorld's practice whether it be a live performance or teaching people about the unseen world of plants in our innovation labs. A core part of Maggie's… -
Launching Book and Symposium
The Alternative Reality Gardening publication and symposium launched this week with nearly thirty individuals from around the world contributing this this cross-disciplinary project. Scientists, technologists, theorists, poets, crafters, dancers, artists and engineers… -
ARG: Sharyne Lewis
Sharyne Lewis, (bailartheskies) is a multidisciplinary artist exhibiting and performing since 1998. Lewis’s art practice is strongly influenced by her passion for dance, choreographic practice and drawing. Her work explores themes through…
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