inglewoodpete
Senior Member
If you are in Dublin, Ireland from 28th January to 25th February, set some time aside to see Visceral: The Living Art Experiment at the Science Gallery.
Among the exhibition's displays will be Silent Barrage, the working, robotic body of a semi-living being. The exhibit consists of 32 robotic poles in a 50 square metre area which record on paper the reactions of living neurons to the movements of the audience.
From a PICAXE perspective, each pole is controlled by a 28X1, networked via 4 extended i2c busses to a master controller box consisting of 6 more PICAXEs: a total network of 37 x 28X1s and 1 x 40X1. For more information on the PICAXE perspective of the project, refer to this thread, which described the project when it debuted in New York in Feb 2009.
The master controller connects via the internet to a live neural culture grown in a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Real-time stimulus is provided via the internet to the neurons by cameras, which monitor the movement of the audience around the machine in the gallery space. Neuroscientists at GA Tech are using the data gathered to further research the growth and development of in-vitro neural networks.
I will be travelling to Ireland with other team members from Western Australia and Georgia to assemble and test Silent Barrage. If any forum members would like more information on the project or exhibition in Dublin, please PM me. Silent Barrage is a not-for-profit art project.
Peter
Among the exhibition's displays will be Silent Barrage, the working, robotic body of a semi-living being. The exhibit consists of 32 robotic poles in a 50 square metre area which record on paper the reactions of living neurons to the movements of the audience.
From a PICAXE perspective, each pole is controlled by a 28X1, networked via 4 extended i2c busses to a master controller box consisting of 6 more PICAXEs: a total network of 37 x 28X1s and 1 x 40X1. For more information on the PICAXE perspective of the project, refer to this thread, which described the project when it debuted in New York in Feb 2009.
The master controller connects via the internet to a live neural culture grown in a Multi Electrode Array (MEA) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Real-time stimulus is provided via the internet to the neurons by cameras, which monitor the movement of the audience around the machine in the gallery space. Neuroscientists at GA Tech are using the data gathered to further research the growth and development of in-vitro neural networks.
I will be travelling to Ireland with other team members from Western Australia and Georgia to assemble and test Silent Barrage. If any forum members would like more information on the project or exhibition in Dublin, please PM me. Silent Barrage is a not-for-profit art project.
Peter