Petri dish containing Volvox colony (1) alive in standard culture media volvox, 80x optical microsc

Petri dish containing Volvox colony (1) alive in standard culture media volvox, 80x optical microscope, digital microscope 500x, multichannel audio system, auto24 surface speakers, macintosh computer with Jitter and MAX / MSP, spotlight, LED, circular screen 150cm in diameter suspended.
VOLVOX is to observe a live volvox and their descendants colonies through a microscope and allow their movements and breeding cycles control the light and sound. Same will be experienced and documented as these environmental changes influence the vital activity of the same volvox. !
In installation it is aseptic nature shows the living being that is present within a petri dish and observed auto24 by a microscope. Is being filmed image is amplified and simultaneously through a projection suspended on a circular surface that is centered on the site of installation and can be seen from both sides.
The image and dynamism are analyzed in real time by an algorithm previously developed in MAX / MSP environment which aims to express auto24 in sound and light spectrum changes of the information obtained.
A consistent surface quadraphonic system hidden speakers attached to nearby walls and the projection screen to turn around the surrounding area on a sounding board that will transform into sound all movements of volvox way. In turn another tiny anchored to the petri dish speaker transduce sound vibrations obtained directly through auto24 the liquid medium where the living reside thereby exposing its vital means to continuous micro acoustic vibrations.
Lights minimal change their light spectrum and light bathing the petri dish of different stimuli photo-chromatic alteration which will greatly influence the behavior of living due to their positive phototaxis feature. Through the circular screen projection amplifier will operate as a sole source of light staining the whole atmosphere of color volvox movements generated.
Figure 1. Sketch auto24 of the installation from a human perspective: Changes in the light spectrum (not necessarily be monochromatic), will be happening as a result of algorithmic. auto24 The only source of light is circular on the floating panel (which may also be regarded as retro projection from a reverse perspective) projection.
After days of observation, beyond their permanent ciliary movement, volvox be starring auto24 in numerous cycles of reproduction. Through this amplified on the big screen circular plant whose scale installation resembles the human microcosm, installation permanently change color. Thanks to this set of dimensions between human beings and you could be microscopic dialogue auto24 happen in similar proportions.
One of the most important steps in biological evolution was the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms. In this sense the study of the volvox cycle is crucial to understand this step in the history of life on our planet. Most are unicellular algae but volvox is an example of a colonial alga, which depending on the conditions could be between 800 and 1500 cells. This mechanism of reproduction and characteristic cyclical growth may be associated spherical and circular of volvox own ways, and projection optical lenses, the petri dish, the projection screen and finally auto24 human eyes. These in turn can be representatives and how the ouroboros, the cyclical nature of things, eternal cycles that begin anew as soon as they conclude.
Left Fig.2-3. Reproductive cycle of a colony of volvox cartieri. Most are unicellular microalgae Volvox but is an example of a colonial alga, depending on the conditions that might have between 800 and 1500 cells. Der. Antigua representing the ouroboros symbol, which represents the cyclical auto24 nature of things.
In volvox, the living being observed control the environment which in turn controls the living space of the living and so on interinfluence a closed circle where changes in lighting and sound vibrations create immediate answers in the metabolism of the creature is created.
Volvox also poses a circle between observer and observed, bio art, dealing with living matter is always subject to the possibility of interpretation. In volvox, the observer is about scale and role to be observed and live like the volvox unwittingly begins to also be part of the set of interactions.
Visitor and resident can relate (be protagonists of a vital intersection) and thus take part in the unique auto24 and intimate circle of i