Enter the world of microscopy

MICROBIOM is a Deep Space 8K application developed by Hannes Buchwieser in the BioLab of the Ars Electronica Center. The soundscape was produced with analogue synthesizers and recorded at Semmelweisklinik, Vienna. Visitors are invited to enter the microcosm of a petri dish and devour as many other organisms as possible. The game ends when all assimilable microorganisms have disappeared. Thus, MICROBIOM is an artistic approach to the impacts of our current economic practices on ecological systems and the resulting socio-cultural consequences for human societies. An otherwise inaccessible world is made visible in a way that is playful. One finds oneself in a microscopic world with the goal of catching as many other organisms as possible. Enter the petri dish and eat as much as you can!

CREDITS

microscopy, sound & programming by Hannes Buchwieser.
scientific advisor: Dr.rer.nat. Anastasia Bragina.
technical advisor: Matthias Langer, MSc.