Talk: "Hiperconnected Bacteria" at "Technologies of the Living" 14th Creation - A&C Encounter

TECHNOLOGIES OF THE LIVING

14th Creation - Art and Science Encounter | Suratómica Network

Unusual conversations | Maloka

13.04.2023

5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Maloka - Cra. 68d # 24A - 51

Hyperconnected Bacteria

Hyperconnected Bacteria is a speculative fabulation about the emergence of a non-human cyborg between bacteria and the internet. An experimental proposal that fictionalizes the takeover of the internet by these microorganisms, while approaching the development of this biotechnology.

The project immerses itself in - and contributes to - the enormous amount of new/other ways of understanding the Living, that today in the biocentric turn are emerging. Among them also, other ways of relating to the living organisms with which we co-inhabit / co-constitute the earth's biosphere and which shape us ourselves, such as bacteria.

The interconnectedness of bacteria would allow them to perform horizontal gene transfer through the Internet. The DNA shared by certain bacteria in a soil would be instantly available worldwide. Lynn Margulis (1995) described how bacteria could, through horizontal gene transfer, recover quickly after a natural disaster, something that would take humans, for example, much longer or even fail. What could access to a global network created by humans with the infrastructure of the Internet of Things mean for such an impressive collaborative process of bacteria?

Website of the 14th Creation - Art and Science Encounter

https://www.suratomica.com/post/tecnologías-de-lo-vivo-14-encuentro-de-creación-arte-y-ciencia-y-conversaciones-inusuales

Documentation of the Talk

Symbiogenesis of the hyperconnected bacteria superorganism, as a queer form of life. Based in: Andrew Z. Colvin - Barth F. Smets, Tamar Barkay (September 2005). “Horizontal gene transfer: perspectives at a crossroads of scientific disciplines”. Nature Reviews Microbiology 3 (9): 675–678. DOI:10.1038/nrmicro1253. CC BY-SA 4.0

Natalia Rivera

Natalia Rivera

Natalia works with emerging digital and bio media, currently exploring the possibilities of digital technologies as a means of mutual support between living entities. In the context of indeterminate/queer knowledge creation, her processes are undisciplinary, open, collective, collaborative and communitarian, through the Mutante Lab (Bogota) and the global Suratómica Network of creation - art and science.