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Protein Cloud Interaction & PCI
Microgravity
- Name: José Wagner Garcia
- Country: Brazil
- E-mail: automata@uninet.com.br
- University: Petrobras - Cognitus (industry)
Abstract:The PCI (Protein Cloud Interaction) experiment consists of an octagonal chamber where superficial acoustic wave (SAW), 8 fluid atomizer units had been installed on each side. The simultaneous firing of each pair of atomizers generated protein clouds inside the chamber producing bioluminescence images, registered with a high resolution camera. For the first time in cosmonautic history a hybrid experiment has been carried on board the ISS (Brazil & Russia March/2006), integrating the concepts of art and science. It is an internationally pioneering project in the relationship between art, semiotics and technology. From the perspective of art production, the profound crisis in or even an aesthetic artistic emptying of all forms of representation has become evident in the last quarter of a century. There is much to say and think about this. However, it is seemingly restricted to the sphere of representation, sign or episteme, in fact as the PCI will show to some respect, it origins in a crisis of comprehension of reality. Perhaps it is only a question of an adjustment in the gauge or the degree of our lenses to perceive this reality, or perhaps, to this should be joined an instant of change, of paradigm breakage. Using Semiotics as the backbone of the project allows us to question the true conceptual condition of aesthetic experience and how it is understood both in the epistemological and ontological universe. Semiotics theory becomes fundamental when turning available the appropriate concepts for the correct understanding of the logics of processes in the context that embeds it: an artistic project that interacts with actions and laws of biophysical sciences. PCI is an artistic project, though is may be understood from a semiotic stance as a tool, a resource or stage of a scientific elaboration. That is, understanding each and every intelligent activity, including arts, as science would already suffice to comprehend this Project in s
cientific terms ö engendering cognitive models in order to ena
ble new
discoveries. While presenting itself as an admirable object, molecular interactions of a biological system invite us to enter a dialogical circuit which will allow the creation of new signs that expand not only its admirability but also its reasonability. A reasonability that will allow us to satisfy even more our desire for what we are observing. It is in this admirable universe which flows between poetry and reason that this research is situated.
