Tosca Terán aka Nanotopia
Interdisciplinary artist
Project lead & art director
Tosca is working with artists, scientists, programmers and various fungi towards bringing this project to reality.
A Bioart related residency with the Coalesce Centre for Biological Art Tosca worked with SEM, Confocal and AFM microscopy captures to better inform the Holobiont and Symbiotic 3D final VR/AR production.
Sculpting 3D assets, collecting biodata, cultivating mycelium, composing world soundscape with various fungi, developing AR didactic information, installation layout, sensor circuitry, holobiont aesthetics.
Follow @symbiosis.dysbiosis & @mothantler on Instagram and watch the Symbiogenesis production unfold.
Tosca's Mycelium bio-sonification collaborations can be found here, https://soundcloud.com/nanotopia
Sonic work as Nanotopia can be found here, https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com/
Artists, Developers, Scientists collaborating & working with Tosca on this project include:
Brendan Lehman aka Neurochems
Neuroscientist/Biodata coder
Brendan is assisting with Technical Design; working in Unity to connect the biodata and audio hardware with meaningful in-experience interaction. This involves handling the OpenBCI hardware, interfacing this data stream with Unity, and utilising the data to enable interactive visual and auditory effects.
Michael Barngrover
XR & Photogrammetry specialist
Photogrammetric data into VFX. Confocal mycelium output optimization.
Cale Bradbury
Compute Shaders
Penelope Walcott
Working with us on the spatial audio Installation & VR
Peter Henderson
New media artist, graphic design
Developing AR output
Allison Moore
New Media artist
Photogrammetry captures of Canadian coastal rainforest assets.
Point cloud data output.
Consultants:
Andrei Gravelle
Audio engineer, digital technician, musician
Consulting for installation spatial audio layout & set-up
Leif Blomquivst
Engineer
Consulting on Arduino sensor code
Wade J. Sigurdson, PhD
Director
Confocal Microscope and Flow Cytometry Facility
UB Buffalo
