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Silent Barrage, Neurotics Collective (Phil Gamblen and Guy Ben-Ary) from the Australian art-science lab SymbioticA in collaboration with Steve Potter, a neuroengineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, 2010.

Cameras mounted on robotic poles monitor people's movements through a mechanical jungle, and, using motion-tracking technology, this information is fed back to electrodes that stimulate cultured neurons in a Petri dish hundreds to thousands of miles away. As a result, the installation creates a feedback loop between the exhibition visitors and the neurons.

Gorman, M. Silence is golden: Phil Gamblen and Guy Ben-Ary. Nat Med 16, 945 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0910-945

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Guy Ben Ary is a perth-based artist whose work is inspired by science and nature. He specialises in biotechnological artwork that aims to enrich our understanding of what it means to be alive. His main research areas are cybernetics, robotics and the interface of biological material to man-made devices.

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cellF: the world’s first neural synthesizer

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cellF: the world’s first neural synthesizer

cellF is the world’s first neural synthesizer. It is a real “wet-alogue” Synthesizer. cellF’s “brain” is made of a biological neural network that grows in a Petri dish and controls in real time an array of analogue modular synthesizers that were custom made to work in synergy with the neural network. It is a completely autonomous, wet and analogue instrument.

In 2012, Guy Ben-Ary received a fellowship to develop a biological self-portrait, and decided to portray one of his juvenile dreams: to become a rock star.

Guy Ben-Ary had a biopsy taken from his arm, then he cultivated his skin cells in vitro in the labs of SymbioticA at UWA, and using Induced Pluripotent Stem cell technology, he transformed his skin cells into stem cells. When these stem cells began to differentiate they were pushed down the neuronal lineage until they became neural stem cells, which were then fully differentiated into neural networks over a Multi-Electrode Array (MEA) dish to become – “Ben-Ary’s external brain”.

  The MEA dishes that host Ben-Ary’s neural networks consist of a grid of 8×8 electrodes. These electrodes can record the electric signals (action potentials) that the neurons produce and at the same time send stimulations to the neurons – essentially a read-and-write interface to the “brain”.

Human musicians are invited to play with cellF in special one-off shows. The human-made music is fed to the neurons as stimulation, and the neurons respond by controlling the analogue synthesizers, and together they perform live, reflexive and improvised sound pieces or “jam sessions” that are not entirely human.

The sound is specialized in the space to 16 speakers. The specialization is controlled by the neural network and reflects the special pockets of activity within the petri dish. Walking around the performance space offers the sensation of walking through Ben-Ary’s external brain in real time

In its world premiere (On October 4th) cellF jammed live with Darren Moore, Tokyo-based experimental jazz drummer, in a unique improvisation. His music was fed into the neurons as electrical stimulations and the neurons responded by controlling the synthesizer, creating an improvised posthuman sound piece.

cellF is a collaboration between artists Guy Ben-Ary, Darren Moore, Nathan Thompson and Andrew Fitch, and scientists Stuart Hodgetts, Mike Edel and Douglas Bakkum.

For more info – http://guybenary.com/cellf

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cellF: the world’s first neural synthesizer

New Post has been published on https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/cellf-worlds-first-neural-synthesizer/

cellF: the world’s first neural synthesizer

cellF is the world’s first neural synthesizer. It is a real “wet-alogue” Synthesizer. cellF’s “brain” is made of a biological neural network that grows in a Petri dish and controls in real time an array of analogue modular synthesizers that were custom made to work in synergy with the neural network. It is a completely autonomous, wet and analogue instrument.

In 2012, Guy Ben-Ary received a fellowship to develop a biological self-portrait, and decided to portray one of his juvenile dreams: to become a rock star.

Guy Ben-Ary had a biopsy taken from his arm, then he cultivated his skin cells in vitro in the labs of SymbioticA at UWA, and using Induced Pluripotent Stem cell technology, he transformed his skin cells into stem cells. When these stem cells began to differentiate they were pushed down the neuronal lineage until they became neural stem cells, which were then fully differentiated into neural networks over a Multi-Electrode Array (MEA) dish to become – “Ben-Ary’s external brain”.

  The MEA dishes that host Ben-Ary’s neural networks consist of a grid of 8×8 electrodes. These electrodes can record the electric signals (action potentials) that the neurons produce and at the same time send stimulations to the neurons – essentially a read-and-write interface to the “brain”.

Human musicians are invited to play with cellF in special one-off shows. The human-made music is fed to the neurons as stimulation, and the neurons respond by controlling the analogue synthesizers, and together they perform live, reflexive and improvised sound pieces or “jam sessions” that are not entirely human.

The sound is specialized in the space to 16 speakers. The specialization is controlled by the neural network and reflects the special pockets of activity within the petri dish. Walking around the performance space offers the sensation of walking through Ben-Ary’s external brain in real time

In its world premiere (On October 4th) cellF jammed live with Darren Moore, Tokyo-based experimental jazz drummer, in a unique improvisation. His music was fed into the neurons as electrical stimulations and the neurons responded by controlling the synthesizer, creating an improvised posthuman sound piece.

cellF is a collaboration between artists Guy Ben-Ary, Darren Moore, Nathan Thompson and Andrew Fitch, and scientists Stuart Hodgetts, Mike Edel and Douglas Bakkum.

For more info – http://guybenary.com/cellf

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cellF - The World’s First Neural Synthesiser

cellF is an autonomous instrument made of a brain, composed of biological neural networks, and a body made of analog modular synthesisers. cellF uses actual neural networks bioengineered from the cells of its creator Guy Ben-Ary.

There is no programming nor are any computers involved. cellF exists and operates purely through the collaboration between biological matter and analog circuits. 

Watch cellF in action here:

Through Ben-Ary’s creation, the musician and instrument become one entity. 

cellF first performed a live set with Tokyo based drummer, Darren Moore . The drum sounds are fed into the neural network as electrical impulses. cellF then responds to these impulses by controlling the synthesisers, creating what Ben-Ary describes as, ‘an improvised posthuman sound performance’. Observes noted a very noticeable action, reaction and interaction between the human and the ‘other’ musician.

Ben-Ary’s external ‘brain’ has it’s own finite life cycle - while it is with us, it lives in a petri / MEA dish that houses a set of sensors. A surrond sound system of 16 speakers is placed around the room in relation to the sensors within the dish to deliver a spatial understanding to the audience relating to where in the 'brain' the sound has come from.

Guy has shown work at the Beijing National Art Museum, San Paulo Biennale and the Moscow Biennale. His work can also be seen in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 2009, his work Silent Barrage was awarded an Honorary Mention in Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) and also won first prize at VIDA, an international competition for Art and Artificial Life.

More about Guy Ben-Ary and cellF can be found here: http://guybenary.com/work/cellf/

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Episode 19: Mad Scientists

Episode 19: Mad Scientists

Scientists have mapped the human genome, explored the wonders of the universe and developed the perfect chocolate chip cookie.  But all those late nights alone in the lab can have strange effects on the mind.  Or maybe that’s just the LSD.  This week we discuss mind-altering experiments, reanimated farm animals, petri dish musicians and a serious lack of respect for radiation.  Mad scientists…

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