Fish & Chips is a reference made by a curator, Jurij Krpan
The project was originally entitled Fish and Chips and later evolved into MEART – the semi living artist. The project is by the SymbioticA Research group in collaboration with the Potter Lab.
Fish & Chips is a bio-cybernetic research & development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies. Fish & Chips is assembled from fish neurons grown over silicon chips-"wetware," software and visual and audio art output devices - hardware. The aim is to assemble a semi-living artistic entity from distributed colonies of isolated neurons grown over custom-made silicon chips fitted with an array of microelectrodes. Each colony of cells will communicate within itself via a real neural network that will be formed in the culture, while the colonies will interact with other colonies and receive input via a digital network (the internet).
Fish & Chips takes the basic "thinking" components (isolated neurons) and attaches them to a mechanical body through the mediation of a digital processing engine to create an entity that will evolve, learn and become conditioned to express its growth experiences through art activity. The combined elements of unpredictability and temperament with the ability to learn and adapt, create an artistic entity that is both dependent on and independent of, its creator and its creator's intentions. (from: http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/xdisc/site1/fishnchips.html)
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Motor transformation. For an animat to behave, sequences of neuronal action potentials need to be transformed into body movements, but understanding how such sequences might encode information is a subject of much scientific inquiry. Population vector coding is a candidate motor mapping found to occur in the motor cortex (Georgopoulos, 1994 ), premotor cortex (Caminiti et al., 1990 ), hippocampus (Wilson and McNaughton, 1993 ), and other cortical areas: the vector sum of firing rates of a group of broadly tuned neurons taken together provide a precisely tuned representation (e.g., to a preferred direction of arm movement).
We have used a new statistic, the center of neural activity (CA, analogous to the center of mass) to reliably quantify neuronal network plasticity on an MEA by including spatial information (Chao et al., 2007 ). Movement of MEART or a simulated animat was calculated from the CA of 100 ms of responses after each probe stimulus:(http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/neuro.12.005.2007/full)
MEART is a result of a collaboration between SymbioticA Research Group of
(SymbioticA - The Art & Science Collaborative Research Lab, University of WA), Dr. Steve Potter's Lab (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) and the Ultrafuturo Group.
The project was originally entitled Fish and Chips and later evolved into MEART – the semi living artist. The project is by the SymbioticA Research group in collaboration with the Potter Lab.
Fish & Chips is a bio-cybernetic research & development project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies. Fish & Chips is assembled from fish neurons grown over silicon chips-"wetware," software and visual and audio art output devices - hardware. The aim is to assemble a semi-living artistic entity from distributed colonies of isolated neurons grown over custom-made silicon chips fitted with an array of microelectrodes. Each colony of cells will communicate within itself via a real neural network that will be formed in the culture, while the colonies will interact with other colonies and receive input via a digital network (the internet).
Fish & Chips takes the basic "thinking" components (isolated neurons) and attaches them to a mechanical body through the mediation of a digital processing engine to create an entity that will evolve, learn and become conditioned to express its growth experiences through art activity. The combined elements of unpredictability and temperament with the ability to learn and adapt, create an artistic entity that is both dependent on and independent of, its creator and its creator's intentions. (from: http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/xdisc/site1/fishnchips.html)
ALSO: Software development and experimental design
Motor transformation. For an animat to behave, sequences of neuronal action potentials need to be transformed into body movements, but understanding how such sequences might encode information is a subject of much scientific inquiry. Population vector coding is a candidate motor mapping found to occur in the motor cortex (Georgopoulos, 1994 ), premotor cortex (Caminiti et al., 1990 ), hippocampus (Wilson and McNaughton, 1993 ), and other cortical areas: the vector sum of firing rates of a group of broadly tuned neurons taken together provide a precisely tuned representation (e.g., to a preferred direction of arm movement).
We have used a new statistic, the center of neural activity (CA, analogous to the center of mass) to reliably quantify neuronal network plasticity on an MEA by including spatial information (Chao et al., 2007 ). Movement of MEART or a simulated animat was calculated from the CA of 100 ms of responses after each probe stimulus:(http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/neuro.12.005.2007/full)
MEART is a result of a collaboration between SymbioticA Research Group of
(SymbioticA - The Art & Science Collaborative Research Lab, University of WA), Dr. Steve Potter's Lab (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology) and the Ultrafuturo Group.
SymbioticA is an artistic research lab at the University of Western Australia's School of Anatomy and Human Biology. The lab looks at biology and the life sciences from an artistic point of view and has been used to research, develop and execute a number of contemporary art & science and bio-art projects.
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