Dark Storm Phials: A real-time animation artwork depicting an infection transmission applied to growth to maintain a population of forms in a delicate balance.
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 197580
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- boredomresearch
- Month
- April
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The artwork explores natural cycles and scientific models which often go unnoticed, revealing the shapes and forms which emerge from the intricacies of an infection transmission scenario, to creatively communicate its dynamics to an audience. This novel approach uses gaming technology in an animated world, exploring the populations of growth form progressing through different states to eventually becoming susceptible to attack from randomly generated destructive blasts in their environment, enabling the audience to gain a visual appreciation of the population growth and destruction.
The artwork was developed in collaboration with a mathematical modeller at the University of Glasgow where the artists investigated agent-based SEIR (Susceptible, Exposed, Infectious, Recovered) infection transmission models, which are usually outputted as simple 2D graphical representations of human population dynamics with limited visuals perspectives. The artwork enables an audience to observe the dynamics from a visceral individual’s standpoint; and the research and development of Dark Storm Phials was presented in a paper at the Wet Media conference at Sogang University.
The artwork was exhibited at the National Science Museum Seoul, in the Bioart Exhibition (2015) themed “Sustainability: Abundance of Life”, organised in collaboration with Seoul National University, Bioconvergence Research Center and Seoulin Bioscience Co., Ltd. The exhibition and outreach programme focused on science and art in aesthetic discourse raising questions about the role of scientific research in contemporary art and the ethical considerations. The artists were invited by the Exhibition Curator, Arthur Clay of Digital Arts Week International, to exhibit the artwork alongside other key international artists working in the field of biomedical science including: Anna Dumitriu (UK) and Sonja Bauemel (AUT/NDL) and an accompanying exhibition of artwork from Korea was selected through a peer-review process. The opening of the exhibition was attended by BioCon Research Center and the Ministry of Science of South Korea.
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