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Barnett, Heather (2015) Being Slime Mould: a participatory experiment exploring bodies of intelligence. In: Open Embodiments: Locating Somatechnics in Tucson, 15-18 April 2015, Tucson, Arizona.
| Type of Research: | Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item |
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| Creators: | Barnett, Heather |
| Description: | Being Slime Mould set out to test human capacity for communication and cooperation in comparison with a single celled organism, the slime mould, Physarum polycephalum. Whilst it has no brain or central nervous system, the slime mould demonstrates primitive intelligence and an impressive capacity for collective action. This illustrated talk, experiment and discussion explored bodies of intelligence and model organisms - by following some simple biological rules we could observe what complex behaviours could emerge. |
| Official Website: | http://body.arizona.edu |
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | embodied cognition, collective intelligence, slime mould |
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
| Date: | 16 April 2015 |
| Related Websites: | http://www.heatherbarnett.co.uk/ |
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| Event Location: | Tucson, Arizona |
| Projects or Series: | The Physarum Experiments |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2015 11:58 |
| Last Modified: | 22 May 2015 11:58 |
| Item ID: | 7928 |
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/7928 |
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