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Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0
The world’s first “prokaryotic scale free network” has been initiated. The scientist, unconcerned with the ethical implications of his experiment and also unaware of the artist’s intentions, never anticipated that the fusion of the Earth’s global bacterial communications network, with that of human origin would lead to the evolution of a novel and chimeric life…
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Gordon Pask – Electrochemical control systems
DPrime Research’s ISEA2012 project, Biopoiesis is influenced by the work of Gordon Pask. Gordon Pask (1928 – 1996) was Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University, of Cybernetics at Brunel and President of the Society for General Systems research. Pask’s 1953 Musicolour is considered as the first cybernetic art machine, a sound-actuated interactive light show. The Musicolour…
