{"id":281,"date":"2009-09-21T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/technology-recapitulates-phylogeny\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:58:01","slug":"technology-recapitulates-phylogeny","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/technology-recapitulates-phylogeny\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech1.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four elements of the sculpture installation with house lights up<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The left frame holds an image of a circuit board on acetate. The two middle images hold human brain cells on acetate. The right form is an aluminum basket with a plate of live tubefex worms and a Hollyhock root underneath comparing various tree structures.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech3.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sculpture in a dark room<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The light in the center of the basket is activated by human presence and projects the shadows of the tubefex worms on the wall and ceiling above the sculpture. Note how the worms are extending themselves up the side to the plate. When you touch the end of one of these fingers the whole plate of worms reacts as if a single creature. (supra-organism)<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech5.jpg\" width=\"297\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hollyhock root<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The similarity of these root structures to the mass of worms and brain cells indicates that nature has evolved an efficient structure for matter, energy and information distribution, across many different species. Note the dendrite-like smaller roots off the main root.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech7.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"222\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Human brain Cell<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a cell of the Thalmanic Nucleus. <strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech2.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Circuit board<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This circuit board demonstrates a classic tree structure with centralized microchips fanning out along branches of wires and circuits to remote sensory and activation devices.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech4.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tubefex worms<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Notice how the worms organize into small supra-organized clumps with all clumps remaining in contact with others through interconnecting worms.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u8\/tech6.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tubefex worms<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here there are two central masses clumping <strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-281-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=356jpuCDkXM&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=356jpuCDkXM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=356jpuCDkXM<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ylem.org\/artists\/krinaldo\/emergent1.html\">http:\/\/www.ylem.org\/artists\/krinaldo\/emergent1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[246],"streams":[14],"keywords":[2345,2834],"decade":[5543],"media":[5548,5546],"class_list":["post-281","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","hentry","artist-ken-rinaldo","streams-bodies-surrogates-emergent-systems","keywords-artificial-life","keywords-emergence","decade-1990s","media-text","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}