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- Published on Monday, 27 June 2011 06:29
Biomodd
Biomodd is a collaborative art project conceived to challenge presumed notions of opposition between nature and technology in different cultures throughout the world. The project started in 2007 during a residency of Angelo Vermeulen at The Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio. Since then multiple versions have been built both by the people that originally came up with the idea, and by other communities throughout the world. Biomodd art works have been created and showcased in Athens (Ohio), Los Banos (Philippines), Manila (Philippines), Cavite (Philippines), Sint-Niklaas (Belgium) and Maribor (Slovenia). In 2011 more will follow in New Zealand and the Netherlands. Biomodd is an open source art work and can be built and improved upon by anyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_b040nx-mc
Biomodd[LBA2]
The second iteration of Biomodd was built and put on display in Los Baños, Laguna and Manila in the Philippines from February to October 2009. Its aim was to come up with a locally created art installation that would literally fuse a living ecosystem with a modified computer network. The final result was a monumental wood and glass "sculpture" that contained a system of recycled computers intertwined with an aquaponics system, and a multiplayer art game enabling visitors to directly interact with the piece. Conceived and first launched by Belgian artist Angelo Vermeulen in the USA, the core concept of co-created symbiosis of biology and electronics was adapted and relaunched in the Philippines through a partnership with the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) and a range of Filipino partners.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf01YJKYWBg
[C]Biomodd
Work on an installation that commemorated Biomodd[LBA2] started at the end of 2009, whose results went on display in the UP Open University from February to July 2010. After further refinement, the installation was then moved to the 3rd Philippine International Flora and Fauna Green Living Expo in the World Trade Center near the end of July. The installation garnered significant attention from the media, visitors and fellow exhibitors representing various organizations.
UPOU Experimental LMS
Since 2007, the UP Open University (UPOU) has used Moodle, an open source course management system. While the application has allowed the university to deploy all its courses online, Moodle still presents limitations. This site acts as a test bed for new means of enhancing the functionalities of Moodle as per the needs of the university.
UPOU Community Site
This is a pet project which I had been planning since the start of my career in UPOU. It is supposed to be a content-driven website ideally comprising of faculty, staff, students and alumni posting articles and blogs whose topics, as well as participating in an online forum whose topics don't exactly fit in the official UPOU website and MOODLE. Since the middle of 2008, the community site has attained a certain degree of success in reaching out to several students. It has become a springboard for extra-curricular discussion and activities which are severely lacking in UPOU. The augmentation of the website with social networking tools have further boosted site traffic and has reached more members of the UPOU community then ever before. It is my hope to continue to build upon this community and further reach out to more people.
