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Daro Montag. This Earth.

2006. Five strips of color film buried vertically in the soil at Lower Treculliacks subjected to impact of soil microbes.

Eduardo Kac, 'Clairvoyance' (from the 'Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries' series), Biotope

2006. Biotopes contain colonies of microorganisms which slowly change their appearance as result of their metabolism and external conditions. 19 X 23".

Karin Beaumont Oceanides Art of the Ocean. Future Skeleton in the Closet

2006. Pendant inspired by the microscopic marine algae Asteromphalus.

Faculty from the Center for Biofilm Engineering and the Montana State University School of Art. Bioglyphs

2002. Self Illuminating paintings created by use of bioluminescent bacteria.

Stephen Wilson. Protozoa Games

2002. People play pinball-like games with live protozoa by mimicking their movements. In Control-me game, Glove box contains switches to control lights around protozoa and plastic tubes allow singing to the protozoa.

Amy Youngs. Intra-terrestrial Soundings

2002. Worm movements are amplified via sound and infrared video.

plants

Philip Ross. Junior's Returns

2006. Sculpture focused on Self Sustaining Hydrophonic Plant Environments. Four chambers house the plant, the water reservoir, the electronics and pump to provide the air, and a rechargeable battery.

Mateusz Herczka. Life Support Systems: Vanda

2005. Computers monitor and support growing orchids and store data in order to simulate the orchids after death.

Douglas Easterly and Matthew Kenyon. Spore 1.1

2004. Watering of plant bought at Home Depot store is automatically linked to the current stock price as determined from the Internet.

Mogens Jacobsen. Power of Mind 3

2006. Power derived from decaying potatoes is read by a sensor connected to computer. Based on those levels, the computer reveals increasing amounts of a politically sensitive text to the Internet.

Allison Kudla. Search for Luminosity

2005-7. Installation reinforces plants' circadian rhythms by linking sensors which detect leaves' first lifting in morning to control of lights to reinforce those behaviors. Since each plant in the circle has a different cycle of waking, some sleep while others activate.

Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi. Botanicalls

2006. Moisture sensor readings trigger phone calls with pre-recorded voices to inform people when the plants are thirsty.

insects

Miya Masaoka. Ritual With Giant Hissing Madagascar Cockroaches

2002. Performance that includes live cockroaches crawling on the body along with video and sound generated by their actions.

Laura Beloff - Fruit Fly Farm

2005. Audience members wear a plastic sphere that includes live fruit fly farm and an embedded camera mobile phone.

Ursula Damm. Double Helix Swing

2006. Installation in lake induces midges to form swarms and visually records the swarms for later mixing into a virtual world. Viewer can choose from a variety of female wing sounds that attract the males to swarm.

Angelo Vermeulen and Luc De Meester. Blue Shift [LOG. 1]

2005. Visitors trigger light color changes and hence irrevocably determine the genetic evolutionary pressures on water fleas and fish in an aquatic ecosystem. Left side of image illustrates the water flea featured in the installation.

Andy Gracie (hostprods). Small Work for Robot and Insects.

2003. A robot and cricket colony co-evolve. The robot and crickets establish a feedback loop where cricket sounds and robot motions cyclically influence each other.

Garnet Hertz. Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot

2004-5. A cockroach controls the direction and velocity of a large mobile robot via its bodily movements.

animals

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Julie Freeman. The Lake.

2004. Night time projection of the sound and animated displays, which are generated from tracking the movements of fish in a lake.

Gail Wight. Rodentia Chamber Music

2004. Music making environment for mice optimized for their natural behaviors.

Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid. 2003. Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project

Elephants are taught to paint.

Beatriz da Costa, with Cina Hazegh & Kevin Ponto. PigeonBlog

2006. Pigeons fitted with backpack that allows them to fly over the city monitoring air pollution and wirelessly send information back.

Ken Rinaldo. Augmented Fish Reality

2004 Fish moving in small aquaria control the movements of their host robots to interact with other fish and humans. The projection shows the fish's eye view.

Natalie Jeremijenko. OOZ

2002-6. Humans try to control a robotic goose to establish communication with live geese.

ecology

Basia Irland. A Gathering of Waters: Boulder Creek, Continental Divide to Confluence.

2007. Art event that studies and documents ecological threats. The backpack is made from recycled car inner tubes and holds the watershed data, log book, canteen, and water samples.

Ingrid Koivukangas. Five Circle Project:Vancouver

2002. Detail from an installation consisting of a grid of 144 jewel boxes. Each box contains natural materials found at 20 systematically selected sites located on concentric circles overlaid on the city.

Brandon Ballengee. 'DFA 18, Triton'

2001/7. Chemical process uses agents to make skin and other tissue transparent while leaving bones and cartilage stained with various colors to study malformed amphibian specimens collected internationally. 46.5 x 34.5".

Christiane Robbins. I-5_Passing Installation / 52 Food Mart (Proprietary Software Application)

2006. The clarity of the images on installation monitors showing images from highway I-5 is directly linked to live pollution data from air quality sensors at those locations.

David Birchfield, David Lorig, Kelly Phillips. Sustainable

2004. Water gongs arranged in a ring network constantly seek stable water levels by pumping water to neighbors. Sounds of the gongs change with water levels.

Andy Gracie (hostprods) and Brian Lee Yung Rowe. Autoinducer_Ph-1

2006. An integrated biological/artificial ecosystem that allows emergent relationships between real and synthetic bacteria to manipulate a robotic rice farming system. Some features visible in the image include: a microscope showing the live bacteria (on left screen), glass chambers for growing the bacteria, and robotic arms which deliver the azolla fertilizing plants to the plots of rice plants.

Superflex.(Rasmus Nielsen, Jakob Fenger and Bjornstjerne Christiansen) Biogas Project

2002. Artists work with people in third world countries to use simple biogas generators for purposes such as illumination (illustration from Chaing Mai, Thailand)

Adam Zaretsky and Julia Reodica. The Workhorse Zoo: Animal Training Day

2002. Discussions, performance and presentation about animal use for public display and research. The 8' x 8' portable laboratory enclosed a multi-species environment that included the workhorses of biological research, such as worms, frogs, and humans. Community members were invited to visit the inhabitants during the one week installation.