»Biomer Skelters«
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Tamiko Thiel >
»Biomer Skelters«, 2013
Co-Workers & Funding:
Copyright Tamiko Thiel & Will Pappenheimer, 2013. A commission from FACT Liverpool (Roger McKinley, FACT Research and Innovation Manager), in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephen Fairclough and Dr. Kiel Gillead of Liverpool John Moores University (bio-sensing), and with the the World Museum Liverpool (thanks to Donna Young, Curator of the Herbarium). App development supported by a grant and student assistantships from the Verizon Thinkfinity Initiative for Innovative Teaching, Technology and Research, at Pace University and the Siedenburg School of Information Science, principal investigator: Will Pappenheimer.http://manifestarblog.wordpress.com/biomer-skelters/
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Heart rate monitor and Android smartphone with custom appSoftware
Custom Android appCustom AR server and MySql database
Layar augmented reality app
Descriptions & Essays
Biomer Skelters (“biome” + “helter-skelter“) is a crowd sourced, wild growth forest-to-rainforest propagator that creates a city-wide public artwork by connecting participants’ interior biorhythms to exterior urban ecosystems.
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