Last weekend I went to the workshop SWARM | CELL | CITY by Heather Barnett at Art Laboratory as part of their exhibition “Nonhuman Networks”. Heather is an artist who works with slime mould. As an introduction she gave a presentation about slime mould: how it behaves, how it moves, how it communicates, in what conditions it thrives or withers, and what it likes or dislikes. We learnt, for example, that slime mould likes to eat oats and doesn’t like salt. Even though slime mould, as an amoeba, has no central nervous system or organs, it displays the same intelligent behavior as other living beings. Read More
A divinatory lung diagnosis by slime mould
