CRYPTOGRAPHIC BEINGS
by Michael Sedbon
Michael Sedbon
I am an Interaction Designer, artist and life science researcher currently based in Paris. I explore the relationship between the culture around Artificial and Biological intelligence by the making of bio-computers manipulating organisms through rules implemented in soft, hard and wetware, looking both at how biology influences computer science conceptually and at the impact of the implementation of computation and computational thinking to ecosystems.
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Cryptographic Beings is a technological proposal that leverages our ability to control and abstract biology to perform digital information storage.
Aegagropila linnaei are large spherical colonies of photosynthetic filaments. 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. By reducing their behaviors to binary states, they can be used to store digital data.
A sinking algae represents a 0
A floating algae represents a 1
Assembled in bytes, the setup is capable of storing a 5 letter word. The binary states of the algae can be switched by controlling light exposure: flipping the vegetal bits
VIDEO: Cryptographic Beings
