http://mellifera.cc research and project blog of the mellifera project Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:02:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the past week Nonnatus Korhonen and Neurone Schism have been meeting to close down the 'terra-mellifera' eco-system and clear the landscape. Part of this process has been a farewell to resident independent agent: Essential Beeswing - at least for the present anyway. For many months Essential has greeted visiting ... http://mellifera.cc/2010/06/04/vale/ mellifera - echoes of travels in new territories from andrew burrell on Vimeo.documentation of a generative virtual environment created during a ten day residency at the RMIT Virtual Reality Centre in Melbourne. This work creates a real time 3d environment from data it collects from the 'mellifera' environment in Second ... http://mellifera.cc/2010/04/17/mellifera-echoes-of-travels-in-new-territories-2010/ [caption id="attachment_182" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="'mellifera_extensions 01'"][/caption] A look at stills from the early stages of the generative video to be included in 'mellifera_extensions' at the RMIT VR Centre gallery. Andrew and I are spending 10 days extensively workshopping extensions to earlier incarnations of 'mellifera'. We have been invited to show this work as ... http://mellifera.cc/2010/04/01/sneak-peek-of-work-in-progress/ 'mellifera_extensions' will move on from the earlier exhibition last year at 'the block' and on-line. Please join us at RMIT Virtual Reality Centre gallery of you are in Melbourne or inworld if not. There will  also be a one off screening at Federation Square on Thursday 8 April, following the ... http://mellifera.cc/2010/04/01/mellifera_extensions-rmit-virtual-reality-centre/ mellifera now has its own youTube channel. For video documentation of mellifera have a look at http://www.youtube.com/user/melliferaProject http://mellifera.cc/2010/02/02/mellifera-opening-in-brisbane/ The TAXA opening was well attended and the VR centre proved to be an exciting venue to show in. The many mobile plasma screens available facilitated the structure of the installation in both of the gallery rooms. Here a documentary video of 'machina carnis' is playing in the first room. HOST was ... http://mellifera.cc/2010/01/05/taxa-the-rmit-vr-centre/ It was an evening of participant experimentation both at the gallery and inworld: [gallery] http://mellifera.cc/2009/11/12/documentary-images-from-the-mellifera-opening-at-the-block/ Trish & Andrew started their evening with an interview for Science Week The show was opened by Andrew Donovan, Director: New Media Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts which funded the project and Australian Chief Scientist: Penny Sackett along with Queensland Chief Scientist: Peter Andrews. [gallery] http://mellifera.cc/2009/11/12/mellifera-opening-at-the-block/ the terra.mellifera eco-system is no longer stable due to the introduction of a virtual bacteria that has been introduced through the presence of avatars in the space. essential is doing ous best to keep the balance, but, it is also possible for visiting avatars to help move the energy collected by ... http://mellifera.cc/2009/07/05/essential-beeswing-needs-your-help/ I will be presenting my arts/research: "Pluripotent Stem Cells: an artist grows her own..." at the "Eye of the Storm" 2 day Symposium on scientific controversy at Tate Britain. I will be speaking about my adult stem cell project: 'machina carnis' during which I cultured adult stem cells from my ... http://mellifera.cc/2009/06/10/eye-of-the-storm-symposium-tate-britain/