The Slime Mould’s Many Bodies, or Modelling Networks with Physarum polycephalum
[ 1 ] Ośrodek Etnologii i Antropologii Współczesności, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk | [ P ] pracownik
2025
rozdział w monografii naukowej
angielski
- Physarum polycephalum
- network
- lines
- slime mould
- transportation systems
- models
EN Networks created by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum have been the object of interdisciplinary studies and artistic interventions for more than two decades. This paper examines different practices of abstracting humans’ and slime mould’s lines of movement into networks and investigates how Physarum networks are used to explore human patterns of movement and vice versa. It argues that, far from anthropomorphizing the slime mould, the effect of these experiments is instead a slimy rendering of the human.
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