The UK bioSignals team is creating banners made from elements produced by our international teams. We decided to print and send our favourite plant, Mugwort.
Our Mugwort has been growing voraciously in our garden—it has gone mad! When Mary Pedicini from the UK team requested a scrap of fabric related to our project, of course, we used magical mugwort as our inspiration.
It has become a weed and has also inspired many different experiments. In this case, we combined it with our current research within the Emerging Print Lab.
Kim has been working with Hamish and Te Kowhai Print Trust to experiment with 3D printmaking – using 3D printers to generate plates and then using these for more traditional print production.
Kim plucked some Mugwort, took pictures of it on a plain background.
These were then converted into plates and printed on a 3D printer. We then found some fabric to recycle (an old pillowcase and some rags) and printed the images onto the fabric.
The images are now winging their way to the UK, and we look forward to seeing how they manifest in the UK installation. We will also use this same process in some form so there is a resonance between the installations.
Inspired by this process, we simultaneously created a Mugwort AI video in Pixverse.AI using one of the original photos from the garden as a prompt.
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Installation Prototyping
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The Magic of Mugwort
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Hardware Experiments – Outside Sensors
Hardware Experiments
Sansar VR Experiments
Capturing Weeds: Image Gallery
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BioPlastic Experiments
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Proof of Concept – BioSignals
Invoking Resilience and Protection
Peering at Plants
The British Council funds BioSignals via the #ConnectionsThroughCulture programme.