Interesting Links

This post will have a growing number of links to sites of interest and news stories related to bioart or the mechanisms in nature that would be interesting to the field of bioart.

Blogs:

Biocurious
http://www.biocurious.org/index.php?title=Main_Page 

Next Nature - A blog that examines the future of nature from the perspective of Industrial Design
http://www.nextnature.net/


Etc...

Organism: Making Art With Living Systems - http://music.columbia.edu/organism/
This is a good site with many examples of bioart, artists, events, etc.

We Make Money Not Art - Blog's BioArt related posts:
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/bioart/


ANIMAL RELATED LINKS

Taxidermy: Ravishing Beasts - http://www.ravishingbeasts.com
This site is an amazing collection of taxidermy related artwork. There are a lot of very interesting and whimsical examples.


PLANT RELATED LINKS

Botanicalls - http://www.botanicalls.com/network.html
The plants make telephone calls to request more water!
FO.AM Artists website: http://www.fo.am

Plant neurobiology, very good reference for us to know what signals to measure and why.

Plant Media website
http://idl.sfc.keio.ac.jp/project/plantdisplay/index.html

Ken Rinaldo's site of "Robotic Sculpture, interactive art inspired by natural systems"
http://accad.osu.edu/~rinaldo/

Symbiotic relationship of Algae for food and Jellyfish for mobility - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/survival/coral/partners.html#jellyfish

Here is something on the fringes of science. Maybe it is more science fiction. Much less reference worthy than above, but maybe as a comparison:
Cleve Backster and his writings on using polygraph and SCR on plants to measure emotions of plants... http://www.primaryperception.com/bio/

Plant sensors using wireless sensor networks to save money on watering crops! http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1985483.htm

Explanations of plant movements: Redwood sorrel http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/records/rec117.htm
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