Fish & Chips is a bio-cybernetic research & development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies.
Fish & Chips is assembled from
fish neurons grown over silicon chips -"wetware", software, and
visual and audio art output devices - hardware, especially a robot-arm
that performs movement according to the
firing rate of the neurons, and a music generator.
The aim is to assemble a semi-living artistic entity from colonies of isolated neurons grown over silicon chips fitted with an array of microelectrodes.
The neurons action potentials’ will be induced by different stimulations generated by feedback loops such as “observing” the work of the robotic arms, “listening” to the music.
A server will process the resulting neural activity. The software will control the "artistic output"; "music" and artificial muscle-operated robotic drawing arms. Using real muscles as well as artificial ones is the next step.
The effects on society will be profound. Hands on wet biological art is starting to be seen as valid means of expressing cultural and artistic perceptions as well as exploring neglected areas in biological research.
It explores the
nature of contestable futures that may arise. The cybernetic notion of
interfacing neurons with machines/robots is starting to become
a reality.
How are we going to interact with such cybernetic entities considering
the fact that their emergent behaviour may be creative and unpredictable?
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