Living Capsules, 2022 -2023 

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In co-creating these prototypes we took inspirations from the broad conceptualization of Living Machines and from technological developments/imaginaries in the field. After engaging with a sample of capsules, through our senses, we will share some of our aims, narrate how we have been working together, and locate our approach within (sensory) ethnography.

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Techniques studied: Multisensory experience and performance, sonification of chromatograph and frequency data, landscape of sound, microscopic image, voice recording, AI images.

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Biohybrid Buzz: an activation through tasting frequencies

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‘Biohybrid Buzz’ is an immersion consisting of a sound and taste experience that explores the relationship between biohybrid bodies, human senses and living machines. The public will be invited to savor a capsule made with a special Brazilian flower (also known as Electric Daisy or Buzz Buttons) and sense a surround audio with low frequencies. The experience will activate mouth and skin receptors simultaneously.

This distinguished and unique experience will also share other four prototypes created in our cross-disciplinary investigation between an artist (Burd) and a sociologist (Barker). These pieces were co-created based on the question of How might we come to live with Living Machines? The present investigation was also a catalyst that led to the birth of a sonification of the plant, microscope imaging and an explanatory video with Brazilian recipes of food and drinks of the Amazon area. In this installation the audience will be confronted with the concept of Living Machines and speculative ideas about how our futures with them might feel.   

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