This art piece combines virtual and biological spaces. The Physarum polycephalum (slime mold) is a superorganism that consists of a large number of single cells, and just like the ocean in Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris, it has intelligence, it senses the environment, it remembers external stimulus and it can change the reality of those who interact with it.
Biography:
Bill Zhou (CN) is a graduate student in the Technoetic arts major provided by the Roy Ascott Studio and the Detao Masters Academy at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Bill’s art practice explores the poetics of interactivity between systems, biosignal processing and creative coding. As a graduate student, Bill is currently working on a biological installation exploring insects and light.
