living organism / speculative sculpture / experimental laboratory / sonic system

01 — BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Diatoms / silica architectures / biofilm

Research into diatom silica architectures

→ diatom morphology

→ silica structure

Drawings from this summer

Video

Possible spatial configuration: laboratory + data + suspended silica biofilms as experimental sonic membranes

02 — EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM
Microfluidics / pH / transducers / sensing

→ biofilm
→ microfluidic chamber
→sonic membrane
→ installation

Magnification of one of the suspended silica biofilm with the Microfluidic Chamber

Detail of the microfluidic silica-biofilm chamber

living organism /
the living biofilm becomes part of an experimental acoustic transduction system.

EXPERIMENTAL SONIC INTERFACE

Can changes in the living silica matrix affect acoustic response?

03 — SONIC INSTALLATION
Suspended membranes / sound / audience / space

Lab table as example for the installation

Can a living silica-based structure become an acoustic interface through which environmental change can be sensed and experienced?