May 1996Ĭité des Arts et Des Nouvelles Technologies de Montréal curated by Ginette Major & Herve Fisher.īLASTHAUS GALLERY, San Francisco, California. Displayed a new version of Technology Recaps Phylogeny. SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, California. The Blasthaus San Francisco, California, invited by Will Linn. They may appear as fingers of rivers, cracks in rocks, branches of roots, snowflakes, cytoskeletons, brain cells, clumps of worms, circuit boards, and very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) and internet connection networks. Tree structures are forms that recur consistently in organic and inorganic systems alike. The roots, worms, and circuit boards in this work point to the all-pervasive tree structure as the most efficient matter, energy, and information distribution network. Soon the worms have collected together again to act as a single creature. When one swarm reacts, the few worms that are invariably touching the other clumps contract, and soon the whole glass plate has exploded with worms heading off in every direction a kind of primitive escape mode. In this work, five and six clumps will form in a dish like mini sea anemones.
However, science does not look to the art/sciences for precedents given my work was published in 1992. student at the University of Liege in Gembloux, Belgium, discovered this behavior.
By doing so, the worms collectively decide to travel in the same direction as part of a single herd. According to research published in the journal Ethology, earthworms use touch to communicate and influence each other’s behavior. Scientists have now “discovered” Earthworms form herds and make group decisions. These collective fingers swell over the edge of the plate and back into other writhing gatherings if you touch one worm in a bunch, the whole mass contracts like a flinching muscle. The gaggle sends out exploratory tentacles projecting from the edge of undulating masses, which resemble magnified striated muscle cells. The tubifex worms, the stars of this piece, demonstrate a form of supra organization in which these single individual tubifex worms act together to form a group consciousness of thousands of worms. As you approach this piece, a passive infrared sensor turns a light on, which projects the worms and tree forms onto the walls and ceiling.
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