VI. Midterm presentation and finalising the concept and storytelling of the project¶
Manifesto of the Open Source Body project¶
This manifesto is a work in progress. The Open Source body is an ongoing project and this was only the beggining. For the time being I created some basic equipment, tools and open source hardware and started with my material exploration by having these principles as a guide and as a moral and ethical compass. The project is an ongoing work of art that is part of a much greater concept, a manifesto, a way of life, a way of exploring the human body and a way to develop future health and care practices.
Finalising the elements of the concept¶
Making of the Open Source Body DIY Bio toolkit¶
I bought an empty suitcase from an antigue store and I completely changed the inside. I got some padding and some spare card board and some plush fabric that looks like velvet. I measured the inside of the cabinet and then cut the cardboard and the padding according to the measuremeents. Then I cut a piece of fabrica a bit bigger than my cardboard and stretched it onto my cardboard and padding and glued the corners with some super powerful glue.
I did the same for the top of the cabinet with the exception that I cut some long strips that I then sew like a tube on the sewing machine so I can use them as my holder strips for my cabinet tools. For that part I layered down all the items and used the tube pieces and I sew around my tools.
For the bottom part I cut a divider to fit my coat on the right upper part, my shaker on the left upper part and my microscope on the left lower part, leaving for another compartment for any petri dishes and other materials like the pH monitoring materials, the bacterial cellulose bandaids and anything else.
Storytelling of the project¶
An intimate concept and sensory DIY biolab toolkit experience for bodily exploration that is guided by material driven research, DIY Biology, biotinkering, biochrome techniques, biofabrication and digital fabrication.
We are documenting the whole project while telling a story of a biocurious girl who is becoming a bioartist. She is interested in new technologies and in creating her own biotech. She is cultivating relationships with more than human others and traditional bodily practices. She is utilising processes of cultivating, crafting and bio/digital fabrication. She is cultivating bacteria from her own body, dyeing textiles with bacteria, creating her own pH sensitive materials to measure pH in bodily fluids, she is creating her own little biolab world and creating the open source body toolkit. She is beginning to create her own biotechnologies of care through these processes. It is important to convey the element of CARE in these processes so we want to show the unexpected parts of biotinkering (cultivating and crafting) and the digital fabrication processes but also the little details (how we are holding the bacteria, the living materials and organisms, how we interact with them, how do we take care of them and cultivate them)!
What if we could reimagine and challenge the current and future development of health/care technologies through experimenting with digital fabrication, DIY Biology and biofabrication? What if we could biofabricate, design, cultivate and craft our own health/care biotechnologies and bodily explorations?
Genre
SCIENCE/SCIENCE FICTION
-Behind the scenes/creation of open source body toolkit video : creation process- documentation
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-Unboxing video : opening my diy bio toolkit/cabinet and showing each part and PERFORMING while visually explaining how it works (part III of the video)
-Feeling: Mysterious (not scary) , curious, ethereal, alchemy.
-Layout for 2 mins of VIDEO and SCRIPT
PART I: Documenting process- 55 seconds
-LABCOAT +
-Scene from biolab with close up of lab coat
-Dying/steaming the labcoat
-Hibiscus dye
-BIOFABRICATION- DYES, SHAKER, PH STRIPS
-HARDWARE- soldering, putting together microscope, make SLIDES
-DIGITAL FABRICATION
-Screen grab lasecut
-Screen grab cura
-Screen grab rhino
-3D PRINTING close ups into me looking closely into the 3dprint, Nipple printing, embroidery, final version of labcoat
PART II: CLOSE UP ON DIY BIOLOGY TOOLKIT INTRO INTO STORYTELLING 30 seconds Building up the curiosity
-Scene with making the toolkit, dressing placing all shelves
-Scene magenta/purple with CLOSED diy bio toolkit/suitcase, close up
-TAKING OUT THE LABCOAT, WEAR THE GLOVES, TAKE OUT EQUIPMENT, LAY IN FRONT OF ME SET UP EVERYTHING, CLOSE UPS ON MATERIALS, HARDWARE, TOOLS
PART III: Performance (DIY BIOLOGY toolkit and experiments, using the materials, tools and hardware 55 seconds)
-Dye, shaker, Filter
-Microscope /plate
-Play with containers, collect fluids, demonstrate materials, end.
Inspiration: Pedro Almodovar - La piel que habito¶
I really liked the aesthetics of this film, the skin theme and the parts from one of the protagonists lab.
Future wardrobe project video¶
future wardrobe from alejo rodriguez on Vimeo.