Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis ab Michael Sedbon

Opus Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis a designatore Michael Sedbon est victor maxime honoratus praemii praestigiosissimi 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Categoria Certaminis Installatio.

ArgentumInstallatio· 2023

Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis

a Michael Sedbon

Cliens: Michael Sedbon

Victor praemii Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum in Categoria Installatio

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De Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis

Cryptographicae Creaturae est institutio artis quae data digitalia in algis viventibus recondit. Opus triginta partibus vegetalibus constat, quarum unaquaeque vas vitreum est algas filamentosas continens. Photosynthesis vesiculas gasi gignit, ita ut algae in luce fluitent et in tenebris subsidant. Uterque status fluitandi vel subsidendi cifram digitalem nullam vel unam significat, atque institutio verbum quinque litterarum recondere potest. Brachia robotica motoribus acta lucem ad singula vasa pervenientem moderantur, et sensor coloris proprie factus statum cuiusque legit. Machina per menses sua sponte in exhibitione operatur.

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De Praemium A' Design Award Argenteum

Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Argenteum, honoris eximie amplissimi formis summi generis, pulchris et conspicuis dati. Victores Argenti opera valde splendida et creandi ingenio praedita sunt, quae praestantem peritiam, talentum et acumen auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis opus mirabile, exemplare, valde professionale et penitus novum fore. Haec forma Argento victa inventum notabile et admiratum est, quod ad fines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae promovendos confert. Cryptographic Beings Institutio Artis creatio est, quam multi invident, quae cupiditates excitat, sensus bonos affert et admirationem miraculumque movet.

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Merita, sodales gregis et singula technica a designatore praebita.

Proprietates Singulares: Cryptographic Beings is a technological proposal that leverages our ability to control and abstract biology to perform digital information storage.

Marimos are large spherical colonies of algea.

Photosynthetic activity produces gas vesicles visible to the naked eye
This property allows them to float when exposed to light and sink in the dark

This property is used to store digital data: The floating or sinking state representing digital 0s or 1s
This robotic setup is capable of storing a 5 letter word
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Width : 60 cm
height : 300 cm
Depth : 60 cm
Weight : 300 Kg
Notulae: Artificial Living Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Bio-Hybrid Computers, Living Machines, New Media Art, Robotic
Technologia Productionis: This work was developed as part of an ongoing research project on bio-hybrid computation exploring the possible morpho-space of computing devices. Michael Sedbon questions the information-processing properties of living matter through the creation of novel technologies embed into sculptural artefacts.
This work has been developed as a functional prototype of a digital data storage device on vegetal media. It uses living algae, custom electronic and software code to store information.
Provocatio Designandi: Cryptographic being is both a technological and an artistic proposal. The technology used to store digital information in vegetal media is a pure creation for this work. During its development, numerous technical challenges such as the design of custom sensors and engineered mechanical parts had to be overcome.
As an artistic project, it also had to communicate its (highly technical) subject in an understandable manner. Great care was placed in rendering biological processes visible.
Investigatio: Living organisms perceive and interact with their environment through computation. Recent advances in the life sciences allow researchers and designers to envision machines of new kinds that leverage the massive and specific capacities of living matter in computing.
How would these bio-hybrid machines change our perception of nature and culture, what can be used to compute, what can be computed and what form will they take? These are the question this work approach.
Inspiratio: The first part of the 20th century witnessed simultaneously the discovery of the basis of information storage in DNA and the revolutions of the modern computing era.

Since then, the fields of computer science and modern biology have co-evolved in a conceptual framework that looks at life as an information processing system and at digital computations as Intelligence.

This cultural relationship is allowing us to design new kinds of bio-hybrid computers leveraging the massive capacity of life.
Duratio Operis: The project was conceptualised and prototyped in summer 2021. The production occurred from September 2021 to March 2022. This work was shown at Au Dela Des Pixel, a digital art exhibition curated and organised by 36 Degres, in March 2022 in Paris.
Cursus Operationis: This autonomous machine consists of an array of 30 vegetal bits made of filamentous algae held in glass vessels. The control of the information flow is handled by a set of specifically developed robotic arms that control photosynthetic processes in each of the bits. The state of each bit (the digital information) is retrieved by a custom-made device based on a colour sensor.
The machine is designed to run autonomously for months throughout an exhibition.
Membra Turmae: Michael Sedbon