In this new project, I aim to search and discover the visual aspects of the tension created between computer generated patterns and the reaction of a live organism to it. This Live organism, a super Specie called Physarum polycephalum is used to creating patterns of its own.

Examining the distance and void gaped between these two opposite themes of “computer science” and “life science” within the faculty of natural sciences, attracts me greatly.

This ongoing experiment will include two mechanisms in use for creating generative designs. The Organism’s nutrients, would be placed in shape of randomly computer generated patterns created by code.

Then, this new layered data system would be incubated to encourage growth of the organism, and result with a reaction in shape of a conversation between the two.

In this installation, I plan on printing the computer generated patterns on rice papers, using an inkjet printer and a “biological ink” made from the Organism’s nutrients. On these images I would then place the Live organism, allowing it to react and generate a pattern of it’s own.