synthetic biology

an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers...next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive.

suspended geotextile that gradually accumulates hybrid soil from ingredients drawn from its surroundings.

a project by phillip beesley, hylozoic ground, is composed of living geotextiles that double as soil-producing landscapes which create their own biomass. 

"akin to the functions of a living system, embedded machine intelligence allows human interaction to trigger breathing, caressing, and swallowing motions and hybrid metabolic exchanges. these empathic motions ripple out from hives of kinetic valves and pores in peristaltic waves, creating a diffuse pumping that pulls air, moisture and stray organic matter through the filtering hylozoic membranes. "living" chemical exchanges are conceived as the first stages of self-renewing functions that might take root within this architecture."

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an interesting investigation of synthetic biology to re-create a natural process for future uses. i desire to explore synthetic processes that mimic natural ones and that can push the connection of nature, technology, and human interaction. i am not quite sure how i want to utilize different nodes of biomimicry and synthetic biology to provoke my interests in thesis, however i do intend to employ these devices throughout the duration of my thesis exploration.