Territory fragments #2 is an audiovisual Installation using a Microbial Fuel Cell as the ‘heart’ of the work.
In this work, I utilize the process of the transformation of organic matter to electricity from microbial fuel cells as biodata. A single cell can produce electricity of around 0.3v.
The mud for a microbial fuel cell was taken from the riverbed of the Citarum River, a river located in the southern area of Bandung. The condition of the river is quite polluted because it is an industrial district.
Using serial communication from a microcontroller, I transform the oscillating data from microbial fuel cells into sound, visual, and lights.
I was captivated by the urban decay around us. For me, it symbolizes our struggle with nature. Using photogrammetry, I can capture an object from the physical world into point cloud data.
With Touchdesigner, a visual programming tool. I use the data to process the point cloud visual data generatively.
With data from microbial fuel cells. I made the point clouds object oscillate between form and deform.
Image Courtesy NTU GDAP 2022 Committee
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