Biomer Skelters
Tamiko Thiel
Biomer Skelters , – ongoingCo-workers & Funding
Copyright Tamiko Thiel & Will Pappenheimer, 2013. A commission from FACT Liverpool (Roger McKinley, FACT Research and Innovation Manager), in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephen Fairclough and Dr. Kiel Gillead of Liverpool John Moores University (bio-sensing), and with the the World Museum Liverpool (thanks to Donna Young, Curator of the Herbarium). App development supported by a grant and student assistantships from the Verizon Thinkfinity Initiative for Innovative Teaching, Technology and Research, at Pace University and the Siedenburg School of Information Science, principal investigator: Will Pappenheimer.Description
Biomer Skelters (“biome” + “helter-skelter“) is a crowd sourced, wild growth forest-to-rainforest propagator that creates a city-wide public artwork by connecting participants’ interior biorhythms to exterior urban ecosystems.
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Technology & Material
Hardware
Heart rate monitor and Android smartphone with custom app
Software
Custom Android app
Custom AR server and MySql database
Layar augmented reality app
Custom AR server and MySql database
Layar augmented reality app