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AIO Remote
500,000 - 1,000,000 downloads
- It does work!
- Remote control editor (only Pro version)
- Amount of pre-set RC
- Bluetooth & WiFi support
- It should be enhanced graphically
"One device to rule them all"
Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund / Mar 06, 2012
All in One Remote is an RC app which turns your Android into an universal control
Our life is full of devices remotely controlled. What if an app could help us to merge all of them in one? This app can do it. It allows you to connect devices by means of both, WiFi and Bluetooth. Likewise, it supports Linux and Windows versions for the desktop client (besides the app you'll have to download it from http://www.hishambakr.com). Bear in mind that you need Java SE Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher and some sort of wireless connection.
Once both devices are connected, you can use your Android as remote control for several apps. For example, you can use it as touch-screen mouse control with both multi-touch and drag support. You can also use it as keyboard, powerpoint control, or control PC media applications like VLC, WMP, Winamp... You can also turn it into a gamepad (with 8 buttons, joystick and multi-touch support). It can be used to play multiplayer using different mobile phones as game pads. What's more, you can design your own game pad adding as many number of buttons as you want or even resize them.
Actually, there's a remote control editor that allows you to create your own custom remotes (there's a link to a video-tutorial in the app). Finally, it includes a remote file manager that allows browse PC and open files and apps on it. Last point: it lets you browse mp3 files on your PC and listen to them directly on your phone or tablet. And you know what's the best part? It really works.
The only catch is about design: it could be enhanced regarding graphics and scenery, specially for PC applications controls.
Finally, Aio Remote supports Bluetooth on Mac, just download latest desktop app from www.aioremote.net
Are you ready to control the world :)
It is not another remote control app. Read description to know why it is totally different from other remote controls!
AIO Remote stands for All In One Remote,
You can control any application ever on your computer through WIFI , Bluetooth by creating your own fully customized custom remote controls.
Windows, Linux and Mac are supported.
Now you can control another Android phone/tablet(Beta) !!
Also there is a predefined set of remotes to control mouse, keyboard, slide show, file manager, media and music players.
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Aio Remote is downloaded more than 350000 times on Android and more than 700000 on all platforms and it is used in more than 90 countries.
Aio Remote won many competitions:
- Second Place in Samsung Egypt Android competition.
- Egyptian Ministry of communication competition.
- One of best 10 innovative ideas in Mobily competition.
- Plus many international and local websites wrote good reviews about Aio Remote (AndroidZoom,ArDroid,...etc)
Key Features:
1- Control PC, Control Another Android phone/tablet(Beta).
2- WIFI & Bluetooth are supported.
3- Windows, Linux and Mac are supported.
4- Advanced custom remote designer lets you create custom remotes to control any app ever. Possibilities are limited only by your imagination!
5- Share your created remotes with all users around the world using our Online Custom Remotes Gallery.
6- Remote File Manager: Browse your files remotely and open them on your computer or Android device.
7- Advanced Mouse touchpad control.
8- Keyboard control.
9- Powepoint / slide show control.
10- Game controller with multi-touch support. and ability to design unlimited number of custom gamepads.
11- You can use up to 4 mobile devices as 4 game pads to play games on your PC/Android device remotely with your friends.
12- Control common media players (windows media player, Media player classic, winamp, VLC, Banshee, Totem )
13- Languages supported: (English, Arabic). More languages will be added.
How to use Aio Remote:
Aio Remote consists of two parts:
1- the phone / tablet application you can download from here.
2- A server application for your computer that you can download from ( www.aioremote.net ).
3- Check my blog periodically to know updated tips and tricks: http://blog.aioremote.net
4- Follow instructions mentioned in this great website "crazytechsolutions": http://www.crazytechsolutions.org/how-to-control-pc-with-android/
Video Tutorials:
Application support:
1- Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/All.In.One.Remote
2- Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100219730744357033734/posts
3- mail: email@example.com
4- Twitter: @AioRemote
5- developer twitter: @HishamBakr
6- developer linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hisham-bakr/17/111/b7
As Android to Android control still beta, I will list the apps/games I succeeded to control:
- Icy Tower Classic ( game )
- Icy Tower 2 Temple Jump ( game )
- Sega Emulator - GENDroid ( emulator )
If you succeeded to control another Android game / app , please upload your custom remote to Online Remotes Gallery or send mail to me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Do you like to see Aio Remote in your language ?
Appreciate your help to translate Aio Remote to your language
Please log in to http://www.getlocalization.com/Aio_Remote/
using your Facebook account and add your language
Please send me your name and twitter handle to mention your name here as a Thank You
Thank you very much for support
Finally, Aio Remote supports Bluetooth on Mac, just download latest desktop app from www.aioremote.net
Online Remotes Gallery totally redesigned.
Download remotes 10 times faster.
Progress indicator of downloading remotes.
Check blog for more details
Download AIO PC server from www.aioremote.net
Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund, Analizadas por Mar GP.
excellent app really it desirve to be downloaded
Thank you for downloading and using application. I will update server application to fix this bug. If you have any feedback, ideas or issues, please send me firstname.lastname@example.com
Can't connect after the program run for 1 hour. And i would appreciate if the server(windows) have background service so i can connect to it without manually run the server.
Does what is supposed too.... Good job.....!!!!
Super super useful, especially as a Linux user. However, it doesn't keep the connection in the background, and building a custom remote is clunky.
Works flawlessly
i'm having trouble with AIO Server on linux, when i try to use bluetooth, its said "BlueCove library bluecove not available;load resource[/tmp/........" pls help!


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Sales growth at Italian luxury brand Gucci almost ground to a halt in the fourth quarter, hit by over-expansion in China where demand weakened and a painful upmarket repositioning.
Its performance is likely to reinforce concerns among investors about the long-term growth prospects of mega-brands such as Gucci and LVMH's Louis Vuitton as consumers increasingly favour newer, more niche labels.
Gucci's parent Kering, which also owns Yves Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta, reported a steep drop in full-year profits due to heavy restructuring costs.
Sales growth at Gucci, which accounts for more than half of Kering's market value, fell to 0.2 percent in the three months to Dec. 31 at constant currencies from 0.6 percent in the previous quarter while analysts had expected an improvement.
In the 2000s, Gucci and Louis Vuitton milked demand for designer logo products with price tags in the hundreds of euros and boosted growth by opening shops at breakneck speed in new markets such as China, Russia and the Middle East.
In response to signs of consumer fatigue with logo-heavy products, Gucci and Louis Vuitton strengthened their higher-end offering with more logo-discreet leather bags and fewer canvas totes. But the brands say the strategy took its toll on sales.
Gucci's sales at constant currencies rose 2.2 percent in 2013 while the previous year, they were up 9 percent, 18.7 percent in 2011 and 11 percent in 2010.
Mirroring Gucci's woes, Louis Vuitton's sales growth has fallen to low-single digits from above 10 percent three years ago.
Kering Chief Executive Francois-Henri Pinault on Friday argued Gucci's slowdown was self-inflicted and mainly due to its repositioning and clean-up of the brand's retail network.
"Of course, if I want to increase Gucci's sales by 10 percent, I can just open the tap for entry-level price products and everything will fly off the shelf," Pinault said. "But it would be very dangerous for the exclusivity of the brand."
He said the number of entry-level products had been cut by 25-30 percent and the proportion of sales from no-logo products reached 62 percent in the fourth quarter, against 44 percent the previous year. (Reuters)


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Jeff Manes: Country life provides colorful memories
By Jeff Manes, firstname.lastname@example.com March 23, 2011 9:06PM
Updated: September 24, 2012 6:25AM
"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."
— Alfred E. Smith (American governor, 1873-1944)
Hettie Abbott was raised a farmer's daughter in Newton County near Lake Village and Roselawn. In 1964, she and her second husband, Bill Abbott, moved into and opened up a mom-and-pop grocery store called The Farmer's Market on U.S. 41 in Sumava Resorts. Sadly, Bill is now deceased and The Farmer's Market sits empty.
For the last 18 months, Abbott, 91, has lived with her daughter, Lois, in Rensselaer. Hettie has raised four children. She doesn't drink beer anymore, but still smokes. The staunch Democrat says smoking is what keeps her going.
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Hettie, bear with me, I jump all over the place with these interviews.
"That's the only way I can talk," she said.
I remember when you were the justice of the peace for Lake Township in Newton County. Probably married a few couples during your tenure, huh?
"Oh, yes. Lots of people."
Did you ever meet Fern Hale, the JP who lived in Enos?
"Many times. Fern had a bunch of motorcycles in one night, maybe 30 or 40 of them. I don't know what the charges were, trespassing, probably."
Fern made a great homemade ham salad sandwich at her tiny grocery store. Yeah, Sumava was the Big Apple compared to Enos. Your store was a little bigger than Fern's, too.
"Yep, Fern dealt with the bikers. I took care of the truckers."
Truckers? What were they charged with?
"Visiting a house of ill fame. I had 29 of them stop in; it took all evening to mug 'em and fingerprint 'em."
Where was this house of ill repute?
"The nudist colony in Roselawn. It made national headlines in the newspapers at the time; I believe it was in the early 1970s. I know it was a Friday night because I'd eat fish at Lukes Restaurant on Fridays and they messed up my dinner plans."
Hettie, Roselawn has had nudist colonies for close to a century. Why did those truckers get fined?
"Because they weren't there to worship the sun. Two 'waitresses' were brought to me as well. I found all of the truckers and one of the women guilty."
But Roselawn is Lincoln Township, why did they bring the truck drivers to your office in Sumava?
"You take whoever the police bring you. Ralph Knapp, the JP of Lincoln Township, might not have been available at the time."
Knapp — wasn't he the original owner of the nudist colony back in 1920s?
"You're thinking of Alois Knapp. The nudist colony started about the time I started school — 1927."
The year Babe Ruth swatted 60 homers. You mentioned Lukes Restaurant. You must remember the place in the early days.
"The first time I ate there was in 1931; there was a big rally going on. Al Smith was hoping to get the Democratic nod in the primaries against Franklin D. Roosevelt."
Smith was a Catholic, wasn't he?
"He was an old drunk."
During part of your childhood, you lived east of Lake Village near the area known as Blue Grass.
"Yeah, Blue Grass was known for bootlegging. Annie Duchler ran a bootleg place near Indiana 10 and Old (U.S.) 41."
Did you go to Mount Ayr High School?
"For three years. I graduated from Morocco High School."
Ever bump into any of your classmates?
"I'd have to go to the cemetery to do that."
Life on the farm?
"Dad farmed 40 acres. We raised corn, potatoes, strawberries ... . Truck farming more or less. We lived off the land. There were 12 of us kids — two died. We were poor, but we didn't know we were poor. It was the Great Depression."
Let's talk more politics.
"My father was a devout Republican. And you know what? My father and I never saw eye to eye."
I knew you were a Democrat because I remember you and my ma representing the party when you worked the polls together on Election Day.
"Your mom and I were talking astrology 50 years ago. She knew how to do charts way back then."
Yeah, I remember when the Baptists would knock on our door and warn her to change her ways, that astrology was evil.
"And what would Karen say to that?"
Ma would remind them the Magi were astrologers and close the door. What year did you first run for political office?
"I started in 1960, when John Kennedy was elected president. I was the Democratic county chairman for eight years. I also was vice president and district secretary."
Let's switch gears. Do you still like to gamble?
"Oh, yeah. My sister and I used to go down to Arkansas every year and bet the horses. We had a lady friend who tended bar in the hotel. She invited us for a couple of beers after the races."
A bar is a logical place to have a beer.
"It was Election Day. All of sudden about 15 men came in through the back door and ordered drinks. Soon after, the feds came in and asked what we were doing in the bar on Election Day. I told them we were thirsty. One of the feds said, 'I'm going to have to haul you all in.' "
Then what?
"Well, one of those 15 guys who was drinking at the bar said, 'I don't think so; I'm running for governor of this state. These are my friends and we're going to have a few drinks.' The Fed said, 'What about these two women?' Soon-to-be Gov. Bill Clinton said, 'They're with us.' "
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The Farmer's Market was a place where you could buy a quart of blueberries, a can of yellow wax beans or a box of red worms. And every riparian ragamuffin who stepped foot in that store always received a free piece of gum or candy from Hettie Abbott.
Later, when we got to be in our teens, The Farmer's Market is where we'd pay our speeding tickets. Most of the time, she would let us off the hook.
Hettie Abbott has always maintained, "When you go out on the town, wear red and sit in the middle of the room."
That's comin' from a beautiful, progressive woman who was born in 1920, the year the 19th Amendment was passed.


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Meta-Life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts, a Leonardo-MIT Press e-book edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina and Louise Whiteley.
Available on amazon USA and UK.
Publisher Leonardo/Olats writes: Artists have opened new avenues in the art world by employing these developments in biotechnology, synthetic biology and Artificial Life; going from inanimate to autonomous objects to living creatures; exploring the thin border between animate and inanimate; confronting the grown, the evolved, the born and the built; and raising aesthetic but also social, political and ethical issues.
New forms of 'exo-life' may not arrive on Earth from outerspace by hitching a ride on a meteorite, but instead come out of the lab, designed by scientists - or perhaps artists - weaving together biology and computing in a petri dish or bioreactor.
Over the last fifty years our ideas about the nature of life have changed dramatically. Revolutionary advances in genetics and molecular biology have given us new insights into how carbon based life on our planet originates and functions. In more recent years the development of synthetic biology has dramatically expanded our ability to design and modify life forms. At the same time, disruptive developments in computing technologies have led to the possibility of generating digitally-based artificial life. And outside traditional institutions, emerging DIY, bio-hacking and citizen science movements have begun to appropriate laboratory technologies, challenging ideas about the governance of the life sciences.
Meta-Life is an anthology of articles published in Leonardo about the living, the non-living and the 'kind of living' in all their forms. There are 45 articles in total, some date back to the 1990s, others are newly commissioned texts. In fact, the whole DIY Biology - BioHacking section is composed of new commissions.
A quick look at the titles of the sections demonstrates the wide-range of themes explored: Between Bio, Silico and Syhtetic: Life and the Arts reflects on how our notions of life and of art are challenged both by computer technology and biotechnologies; Artificial Life and the Arts as well as the section called BioArt contain theoretical and philosophical texts about both fields, Bio - Fiction, Design, Archictecture explores the thin border between reality and fiction; DIY Bio - BioHacking proposes various points of view on the bio DIY movement.
I haven't been through the whole ebook but i've read most of the articles and so far, so very good. To be blunt, I don't trust Leonardo to publish texts that are approachable and engaging. Intelligent, informative and thought-provoking, they do very well but appealing to broad(ish) audiences? I wasn't not so sure. Well, that's where i was very wrong. There is no abstruse language nor complex theories in this ebook. Trust me, I deliberately looked for it.
Here's just a couple of examples of the essays i've enjoyed, in no particular order:
Dr Craig Hilton writes about his collaboration with artists Billy Apple® to create what is simultaneously a subject of art and of scientific endeavor. This project consisted in growing the first biological tissue made available for artists and the first biological tissue for science research made available by an artist as art. The Immortalisation of Billy Apple® is a work of art that lives, multiplies and has the potential to create other works of art ad infinitum, especially because there is no restriction placed on the use of the Billy Apple® 's tissue.
The flamboyant Adam Zaretsky authors a sex-infused manifesto about the utopias surrounding the art (manipulation) of the living.
Following the exhibition GROW YOUR OWN ... Life After Nature, Michael John Gorman offers a coherent and crystal-clear introduction to synthetic biology, in which he also manages to include a few reflections on intellectual property, ethical and regulatory framework, media frenzy, and market interests.
Anna Dumitriu explores the relationship between bacterial and digital communications networks through the lessons she learnt while working on her project Cybernetic Bacteria 2.0.
Steve Tomasula places bio art into the context of the tradition of manipulating nature for aesthetic reason.
Oron Cats investigates the concept of being alive or 'just kind of living.' He makes some important points about the absence of a cultural language that would help audiences deal with tissue culture and other fragments of life. How should we culturally articulate and position lab-grown life when we have no cultural reference that would allow us to relate to it?
David Benqué has an enlightening conversation with independent synthetic biologist Cathal Garvey. The discussion explores the difference between DIY biology and BioHacking, the fear of biotechnology escaping the labs, the cost of creativity in biology, etc.
The first text i ran to was actually Alessandro Delfanti's research about DIY biology and its position in the world of science, the world of the market and the state.
I think i could go on and on. I carried Meta-Life in my e-reader throughout the Summer and enjoyed dipping in and out of it. I think that this collection of texts by illustrious artists, designers, and researchers constitutes a great reference to anyone who has a mild-to-strong interest in how the art world is exploring the synthetic and the aesthetic, the artificial and the new natural, the fictional and the ethical dimensions of life.
Get that one for your Kindle, it's a gem.
Image on the homepage: Brandon Ballengée. Malamp Reliquaries, 1996-ongoing. Unique IRIS prints on water-colour paper. 2003-07.
In the early 19th century, textile artisans started to break into factories at night to destroy the new labour-saving machines that their employers had bought. They saw the stocking frames, spinning frames and power looms as a threat that would make their skills obsolete and lead to lower wages.
The movement began in Nottingham on 11 March 1811 and spread throughout England over the following two years. The artisans who opposed the newly introduced machinery were called the Luddites. The origin of the name is uncertain but over time, the term "Luddite" came to describe people opposed to any form of technological progress. In the late 21st century, the neo-luddites emerged. They protest(ed) against the negative impact that technology has on individuals, their communities and the environment and aspire to a return to a 'simple lifestyle'.
Newspapers suggest that society is now facing the rise of a new type of neo-luddites. They don't fear for their jobs or for any damage to the ecology, they fear the loss of privacy brought about by drones and google glasses. In any case, the smartest form of luddism or neo-luddism is not one that commends violence, it's one that calls for a better understanding of new technologies and demands that people (all of them not just the ones who can afford to buy these technologies) have a voice in how they are to be distributed and used.
Speculative designer Lisa Ma, however, is pushing the discussion further. Over the past few month, she has been looking for the relevance of Luddism in the modern era by shifting focus from digital and communications technologies to the innovations of biotechnology industries. These biotechnologies which have started to pervade the food, health and ecological systems will undoubtedly attract their own forms of luddism. So who are the BioLuddites? Where are the group and individuals who ask for a demystification of biotechnologies and who are calling for a public debate about GMOs, systems ecology, hormone replacement, etc?
She writes:
"Biotechnology, its beaucrocies, peripheries and implementation affect our everyday lives. There is a lot of work on the public engagement of emerging technologies, but there are gaps between where we believe science should cover and what is not yet covered. The recent ebola outbreak is an example of where the epidemic is actually one of fear, as society comes face to face with and area not yet solved by biotechnology or policy.
In digital technologies, we've seen an emergence of e-etiquettes and social manuals etc. of digital behaviour. These are what we refer to when society reaches the inner and outer limits of digital technology. Similarly, we also need guidances to reform our social relationships with biotechnology. Bioluddites is filling a necessary role in guiding the social and not just the ethical critiques of biotechnologies."
As part of her residency at Near Now, a programme which works closely with artists and designers to produce projects that explore the place and impact of technology in everyday life, Lisa Ma organised a panel titled Where are the Luddites - An Open Call for BioLuddites. The event took place on 4th June 2014, in Nottingham, birth place of the Luddite movement.
Taking part in the discussion were Lisa Ma, Ben Vickers, David King and John O'Shea.
John O'Shea gave a compelling talk about his very funny adventures in proposing the implementation of a Meat Licence, and in bio-engineering a Pigs Bladder Football. Both are projects that catches the imagination of the public but the artist also discussed the legal, ethical and cultural questions that arose during the development of the works.
David King, who has a PhD in molecular biology, is the founder and Director of Human Genetics Alert, the founder of Luddite 200, and of the Breaking the Frame conference. He is also a frequent contributor to media debates on genetics and it is clear from his contribution to the panel that he has some strong and thought-provoking opinions about synthetic biology, three-parent babies, the need to engage in a dialogue with the powerful systems that control biotechnological innovations, etc.
Ben Vickers is a curator, writer, technologist and self-proclaimed Luddite. He talked about the functioning of unMonastery, a space that aims to develop a new kind of social space, akin to co-living and co-working spaces, drawing influence from both Monasteries and HackerSpaces, with a focus on the process of co-creation and co-learning between the community and unMonasterians. He is also a NearNow fellow.
An Open Call for BioLuddites was a great event and i can't recommend enough to watch the video of the panel:
Image on the homepage via BBC news.
The Oaxaca Valley in Mexico is regarded as the heartland of corn diversity. Not only can cultivation of the plant in the region be traced back to over 6000 years ago, it also presents the highest genetic diversity of corn in the country.
Yet, this rich and ancestral biodiversity is threatened by the introduction of genetically modified seeds in the region. In November, 2001, David Quist and Ignacio Chapela from the University of California, Berkeley published an article in the journal Nature in which they reported that some of Oaxaca native corn had been contaminated by pollen from genetically modified corn. Unsurprisingly, the essay was heavily criticized by academics who had suspicious ties with the biotechnology industry.
An exhibition at the MACO, Oaxaca Contemporary Art Museum, reflects local attempts to preserve Oaxaca's rich genetic heritage. The 'corn issue' cannot be reduced to a fight against the transgenic industry, it is also a battle to preserve a whole culture, an identity and a certain vision of the world.
Bioartefactos. Desgranar lentamente un maíz (Bioartefacts. Slowly treshing corn) presents 9 installations which highlight the 'artefact' nature of corn. The plant is a biological artefact because it is the result of a human domestication that took place thousands of years ago and it has in turn shaped the whole country over as many years.
The works exhibited include a robot that 3d prints then plants seeds made of a biopolymer created from corn (PLA), an installation that monitors and visualizes the breathing of corn as well as a series of corn plants connected with electrodes to record the interaction between plants and humans.
I haven't visited the show but the theme, the works selected and the political undertones deserved to be further investigated so i contacted María Antonia González Valerio, curator of the exhibition and director of Arte+Ciencia (Art+Science), asked her for an interview and she kindly agreed to answer my questions.
Hi María! Could you explain the political and economical context of the exhibition?
The exhibition faces a difficult political and economical context in Mexico. Political decisions, in general, are being taken without including the actual living conditions and opinions of Mexican people. This makes us ask how is a community organized, how is it build. Which, of course, has no easy answer. It depends not only on the cultural context of the community, but also on the economical context. Diversity of possibilities of organization is something that we want to stress with the exhibition. Given the political context, that is very artificial and faraway from everyday life, and given the economical conditions, that in general terms and related to politics are benefiting the big and international enterprises, we need to find a way to preserve cultural diversity and biodiversity. This is not an easy task. But if we can show that there are many ways to dwell in this world, and that the capitalism-Western style is still not the only one, but a possibility among others, then we are making a strong point. It is then very important to highlight the complexity of the problems, the many perspectives, the way in which they are related and co-dependent, that is, that economical and political context have a lot to do with cultural diversity and biodiversity.
Why does the exhibition focuses on corn, rather than any other cereal or edible plant?
Corn is a special plant for Mexico. It has many layers for us. Corn is related to cultural identity, land, food, religion, mythology, rites, family, economy, animals, etc. By stressing the ways in which corn is produced, grown and used in different contexts, we want to meditate on the different aspects that constitute also different worldviews.
Corn is still the basis of Mexican nourishment. What is the relationship that we have to our food? We can at least point to the industrialized way in which it is being produced in the north of the country, the traditional way like in rural Oaxaca, and the indigenous way also taken Oaxaca as an example. From the very much-mediated relationship to food that we have in the cities where everything comes from markets and supermarkets, to the self-subsistent system of corn growth and consumption in rural Oaxaca, we can think about the different ways in which we build our world. Instead of thinking of opposites, I believe that people from the cities have a lot to learn from the countryside, not only in respect to food consumption, but also from the different ways of life. In the same sense, the city has a lot to teach to the countryside.
We cannot face the problem of corn, food, GMO's, biotechnology, etc. only thinking about economical, biological or scientific issues, the cultural aspect is very important. When we talk about different ways of producing corn, from rural to industrialized, we are not talking only about machines or monocultures, but really about cultural diversity.
Art is one of the better ways to show this cultural diversity that at the same time is intimately related to the natural world, which for us now means also the production and designing of "bio-artifacts". Corn is a bio-artifact. But we have to learn to see degrees, nuances and be more specific in the kind of analysis that we make when we draw a border between the natural and the artificial.
In Europe, GMO are submitted to very strict regulations. The U.S.A. are notoriously far more favorable to GMOs. How is the situation in Mexico and what is the state of the debate about 'native' corn vs transgenic corn?
For the moment, there is a prohibition in Mexico to continue with the planting of transgenic corn, not even for experimental purposes, because it has been demonstrated that all our country has corn biodiversity, not only the south, and that therefore all the territory must be protected from contamination. Being also the center of origin of corn, puts us in the special condition of watching for biodiversity.
But it is very important to say, and we have previously demonstrated this, that we are importing corn seeds from the USA, some of them are transgenic and germinal. Non-human animals are being fed in Mexico with transgenic corn. There is not an adequate surveillance from the Mexican government in regard to the importation of these seeds. And since we are bound to buy corn to the USA, because of the NAFTA, and the USA is producing transgenic corn, we are very worried.
It can be said that there is no problem with transgenic food, but there is no consensus in the scientific community about this. And this should be enough to have more precaution. But I insist, what is at stake is not only the way in which we produce food and what for, but also how we dwell in this world, and what cultural diversity are we willing to preserve and respect.
The example of high fructose corn syrup allow us to see how things are related to each other in more profound and complex ways that what we usually are seeing. The production of this syrup has signified for Mexico a financial crisis regarding the sugar cane industry. The consumption of these products is also a health problem. Why are we eating everything so sweet? How and why have we changed so profoundly in the past century our relationship to the land, the planet, our bodies, our cultures, etc.? What does technology means seeing from this perspective?
How can art contribute to the discussions around the issue?
The nine pieces that we are presenting are dealing with many of the topics afore mentioned. BIOS Ex machinA: Serán ceniza, mas tendrá sentido ligeramente tóxico/ It will be ashes, but will make sense (slighty toxic). Is an experiment to detect contamination of transgenic corn in seeds in Mexican soil. We test the resistance to the herbicide glyphosate or Roundup produced by Monsanto.
BIOS Ex machinA: Polinización cruzada/Cross-pollination is a video documental that presents interviews to different actors in the current debate regarding transgenic corn in Mexico. It exhibits the capacity of the discourse to say true or to lie.
BIOS Ex machinA: Desde adentro. Experiments in situ to teach the reaches and limites of DIY biology.
Arcángel Constantini and Marcela Armas working with BIOS Ex machinA: Milpa polímera/Polymer milpa. Is a robot-3D printer that prints PLA in form of
Lena Ortega's La dulce vida/La dolce vita deals with the problem of high fructose corn syrup, the way in which families are fed nowadays, and the transformation from the rural world to the cities.
Alfadir Luna's Containers reflects about the problem of transforming corn into a commodity that is being transported in containers along with fuel, concrete, steel, etc.
Collective MAMAZ. Códice del maíz exhibits textiles that tell the story of what corn represents to local women in Oaxaca and in other places of Mexico.
Collective Zm_maquina Media Lab: Installation that senses the respiration (production of CO2) of corn plants and engraves a copper disc with this data.
Minerva Hernández and Héctor Cruz: Zea mays. Installation that reflects on how the corn plants are altered by the presence of humans.
I read in an online article that visitors will be able to work with scientists to determine whether a corn is transgenic or not. Could you tell us more about the setting and the participation of the public?
There are two possibilities for actual interaction of the public with the exhibition. The day of the inauguration we set a lab of DIY biology. We wanted to show to the public how to extract a DNA molecule out of a corn seed. Also, we wanted to show how to do a process of electrophoresis and of replicating DNA with a PCR. For this we used DNA from E. coli.
The exhibition seems to feature works in which artists have collaborated with scientists and engineers. Was this art/science collaboration one of the main thread of the curatorial process? How did you select the artworks that participate to the exhibition?
This exhibition has an important antecedent in a previous one, Sin origen/Sin semilla (Without origin/Seedless) that we presented in 2012-2013 in the museums MUCA Roma and MUAC at UNAM in Mexico City.
We have been working with scientists, engineers, artists, scholars, students, editors, designers, etc. We strongly believe that the interdisciplinary work is the way to approach complex issues, because it permits a wide perspective that can relate different layers. This is how we have been working on the issue of corn, and so far we have very good results.
Thanks María!
All images courtesy of Arte+Ciencia.
I don't normally blog about calls or upcoming events. Mostly because as breathtaking as they are, press releases 'copy/pastes' are not my idea of an appealing content. I do like to make exceptions to the rule though. One of them is the Bio Art & Design Award. It used to be called the Designers and Artists for Genomics award but its objective remains unchanged: the award invites designers and artists interested in life sciences to propose projects that push the boundaries of research application and creative expression. Each year the three most remarkable ideas are awarded a 25,000 euro grant to bring the project to life and exhibit it.
To be eligible for the award you must have graduated no longer than five years ago from a design or art program (at either the Masters or Bachelors level). Applicants are encouraged to relate their proposals to recent advances in the Life Sciences, including those within specialties such as ecology, biomedicine and genomics.
The deadline is 2 February 2014.
The selection process is rigorous, the research institutes associated seem to be genuinely enthusiastic about the collaboration and the results of the partnership are usually so exciting that i've blogged about them relentlessly in the past (check out in particular: The Living Mirror, Ergo Sum, the now iconic 2.6g 329m/s, aka the 'bulletproof skin', etc.)
I took the call for proposals as an excuse to chat about the award with Angelique Spaninks and Wilma van Donselaar. Angelique is the head of MU, the art center which is going to exhibit the winning projects next Winter and Wilma, who works at the the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, has been working on the Award from the beginning.
Designers and Artists for Genomics is now Bio Art & Design Award. Why did the name change? Does it involve any modification in the award? The way it is organized, its purpose, the spirit, the organizations involved?
Angelique Spaninks : The change of the name is partly due to a shift in organizational parties. The Netherlands Genomics Initiative that has set up the award has ceased to exist per January 1 of this year but it has managed to guarantee a budget for a similar award. This has been brought under care of ZonMW, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, that is now in the lead. The other new partners are NWO (the Dutch Research Council) and MU, one of the leading art foundations in the Netherlands with a hybrid program reaching from contemporary art to design, media art and popculture.
MU will take care of coordination towards the exhibition of the three winning projects, combined with other new bio art and design projects. De Waag is still on board and so are several leading universities and research centers for the Life Sciences that provide teams of scientists that will closely collaborate with the artists and designers that will be selected to work on their proposals. In that sense the purpose and spirit have not changed, and neither has the prize money.
I'm, as always, impressed by the quality and quantity of scientific organizations the award got on board. Why do you think they accept the challenge to work with an artist or designer? What does the collaboration with a creative individual with an entirely different background and -i suspect- perspective bring to their research activities?
Wilma van Donselaar of ZonMW: At first the only scientific organizations that participated were funded by the Netherlands Genomics Inititiative and they had to be persuaded a bit in the beginning, but quite soon they thoroughly enjoyed the collaboration. The artists bring in completely new ideas and often challenge them into exploring new technological possibilities. There has to be a connection of course, but that is something that already becomes quite clear during the matchmaking event at the start of the competition. The only reason why it is difficult to keep scientists on board year after year is that it takes a lot of time. That is why we also bring in fresh research groups. But since we can show the results of previous award rounds now, that is not so difficult anymore.
Who should apply to the award? Is it mostly interactive designers and media artists or could a more 'traditional' artist/designer get a chance provided he's passionate enough about the possibility to engage with Life Science materials and ideas?
AS: We don't exclude anyone with an exciting but also viable proposal, who has graduated no more than five years ago in the field of art and design. Of course it will be more easy for artists/designers with some experience in working with Life Science materials and ideas, but the award is also there to stimulate young creatives to explore new territories and enhance the options for collaboration between creatives and scientists. All this to broaden and deepen the interest in and debate about the Life Sciences through the arts and examine it's social, cultural and ethical contexts.
How is an artistic/design proposal paired with a scientific institute? What is the process?
AS: Each participant can submit only one application before February 2. This application consists of a preliminary idea, portfolio and filled out registration form. Only 16 applicants will be selected for a matchmaking meeting in The Hague in March, where the creatives have to find a match with a team of scientists from one of the participating Dutch Life Science institutes. A list of the participating research groups of the 12 Dutch Life Science institutes can be found on the website www.badaward.nl. Once the matches are made artists/designers and scientists write a joint full proposal for the Award before end of April. Then mid-May all teams have to present their final proposals to the international jury which will then select the 3 winners. All proposals will not only be presented to the jury that day but also to the public. From June till November the Award winning proposals are realized by the artist/designers and scientists together and will be exhibited in MU art space on Strijp S in Eindhoven for 2 months starting from November 28, 2014.
Also I was wondering how the winning projects get accepted (or not) by the design and/or art world? Are they seen as hard to grasp and comment on pieces or does the art press and the art public embrace them as valuable and challenging expressions of creativity?
AS: The Award functions as a springboard, either for new nominations or Awards, new or extended collaborations, grants, positions or new publications. Experience with the first 3 years and 10 Award winners has learned that there is a growing interest in bio art and design in press and society but the art and design world themselves are lagging behind a bit. By presenting the winners in a respected yet hybrid contemporary art space like MU and in a leading art, design & technology driven city like Eindhoven we are convinced this will gradually change.
Thanks Angelique and Wilma!
Field_Notes: From Landscape to Laboratory - Maisemasta Laboratorioon, edited by Laura Beloff, Erich Berger and Terike Haapoja.
From the back-cover: Every second year the Finnish Society of Bioart invites a significant group of artists and scientists to the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland to work for one week on topics related to art, biology and the environment. "Field_Notes - From Landscape to Laboratory" is the first in a series of publications originating from this field laboratory. It emphasizes the process of interaction between fieldwork, locality and the laboratory. Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Laura Beloff, Tarja Knuuttila amongst others explore the field and laboratory as sites for art&science practices.
I was about to add this book to the list of books i liked in 2013 but i decided at the last minute that i might as well give it its own space.
In 2011, the Finnish Society of Bioart organised the Field_Notes - Cultivating Grounds laboratory. Five working groups led by Oron Catts, Marta de Menezes, Anu Osva, Tapio Makela and Terike Haapoja developed various art and science projects while in contact with nature and ecology in Kilpisjärvi, a rural area in Lapland, Finland.
The book contains seventeen articles (in both English and Finnish) that report and meditate on the research, reflections and activities that took place during the scientists and artists' stay in Lapland. Field_Notes offers one of the very few residences that allows people who engage with art&science to work and experiment directly in a natural environment and not exclusively in laboratories or galleries.
I wouldn't say that this is a book for anyone who's interested in bioart. It's not the kind of crazy sexy pop bioart you read about in Wired magazine (or in my own blog.) It is sober and at time theoretical, but not less surprising and thought-provoking than any razzle-dazzle bioart works you've read about in the past.
Field_Notes offers is a great mix of essays by scientists and lively stories of experiments by artists. I particularly enjoyed reading Laura Beloff's essay on how experience is a key aspect (and sometime even the main objective) of art practices that use organic materials or has some affinity with science. Professor Antero Järvinen wrote about the icon of global warming that is the Arctic charr and more generally about the difficulty of drawing simple conclusion of complex material systems and phenomena. Oron Catts came with the most unexpected essay about a piece of plexiglass from a German aircraft that had crashed in Kilpisjärvi in 1942 and how the discovery led him to explore 'new materialism in action'. Andrew Gryf Paterson has a great piece about berries foraging and a proposal to set up Berry Commons which sounds trivial until he makes you realize the politics of berries. Maria Huhmarniemi looked at the dilemma of preserving the endangered Capricornia Boisduvaliana butterfly or building an hydroelectric power plant.
I'll close with two of the many projects i discovered in this book:
A Unit is a miniature green area an individual would wear on their shoulder. A Unit speculates on the concept of green environment and its beneficial impact. It experiments with an idea of wearable miniature green space that becomes part of ones everyday existence and asks if this can be considered as natural environment with potential health benefits?
A Unit contains a GM-plant or other primarily human-constructed plant and as such acts as a training device for our changing relation with organic nature for the future when both humans and nature are artificially modified or constructed.
Niki Passath took his touristic robots for walks around Kilpisjärvi and soon found out that fungi and bacteria had adopted them as a habitat. Traces of moss and lichen started to grow on the structures.
So there you are: a serious, solid book for anyone who'd like to go beyond the easy reductions, the fast conclusions and simplification that sometimes characterizes articles and books about bioart.
Last week, i mentioned my quick trip to Leiden to see the winning projects of the third edition of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award, an international competition that gives artists and designers the opportunity to collaborate with life science institutions carrying out research into the genetic makeup of people, animals, plants and microorganisms.
One of the winning works is The Living Mirror, a 'bio-installation' that combines magnetic bacteria with electronics and photo manipulation to create liquid, 3D portraits. The piece was developed by Laura Cinti & Howard Boland from the art-science collective C-Lab in partnership with AMOLF, a research institute focusing on nanophotonics and physics of biomolecular systems
Living Mirror involves cultivating magnetotactic bacteria, a group of bacteria able to orient along the magnetic field lines of Earth's magnetic field. The artists collected the bacteria and used an array of tiny electromagnetic coils to shift the magnetic field, causing the bacteria rapidly reorient their body that changes how light is scattered. The resultant effect can be seen as a light pulse or a shimmer. Taking pixel values from darker and lighter areas in captured images, [C-Lab] programmatically harmonise hundreds of light pulses to re-represent the image inside a liquid culture.
I had a quick Q&A with the artists:
Hi Laura and Howard! The Living Mirror, to me at least, almost belongs to the world of magic.It uses software, hardware and wetware. It is a particularly complex project. How did you know it would work out in the end? And what were the biggest challenges you encountered during its development?
Indeed, as a work it has been a very ambitious undertaking that integrates quite complex processes of wetware, software and hardware. We had to work very closely with various types of engineering disciplines and work as engineers ourselves. Over the past few months we built several prototypes to help us understand how a magnetic culture of bacteria might work. In the beginning when we worked on pulling biomass our biggest challenge was to generate enough bacteria and have a system that could produce a significant magnetic pulling force.
The interactive art installation was aimed at producing real-time images using living bacteria - but pulling biomass was slow. When we discovered that these bacteria produced a shimmering effect in real-time we were intrigued and felt that this was a better phenomenon to pursue and also allowed us to work with much lower magnetic forces. By changing the magnetic field we were seeing bacteria rapidly switching direction in a synchronic rotation causing light to scatter and producing a visible shimmer. So the major challenges we have encountered so far has been cultivating these bacteria and producing the electronic boards needed for approximately 250 individual magnetic coils.
There are many unknowns in the project which is what makes it quite exciting for us - having living bacteria respond in real-time is not something we experience on a visual scale we are accustomed to and finding out whether this system will be able to produce shimmering pixels that can form a portrait image is to be seen in the weeks to come.
To see the shimmering effect we observe, please see these videos below:
In LIVING MIRROR, multiple pulsating waves of bacteria are made to form a pixelated image using electromagnetic coils that shift magnetic fields across surface areas. By taking pixel values from darker and lighter areas in captured images, LIVING MIRROR programmatically attempts to harmonise hundreds of light pulses to re-represent the image inside a liquid culture.
In the proposal you wrote for the competition, you say that "Recent years have seen the human body reconfigured as an ecosystem of mostly non-human bacterial cells. Together with fungi and human cells, these form our complex 'superorganism', an image the work seeks to renegotiate by literally reflecting and fleshing out these ideas." Could you elaborate what you mean by that?
Until recently, our understanding of human 'self' was, at least biologically speaking, thought to be 'human' cells. This perspective is now understood to include microbial communities and interestingly, these microbial cells not only outnumber our own 'human' cells but our bodies contain significantly more of microbial DNA than our own genome. (Our bodies contain a mere 10 per cent of human cells and 90 per cent microbial cells). In this sense our bodies can be seen as a 'superorganisms' - working collectively as a unified organism or an ecosystem.
As a liquid biological mirror, LIVING MIRROR draws on the idea of water as our first interface predating today's screen-based digital technologies. It points to the myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his own image by believing it was someone else in the water reflection. Drawn into the image, he tragically drowned - a reminder of how we continue to immerse ourselves in similar mirrors as we extend our identity into the virtual. Simultaneously, the work highlights how contemporary science has shattered the idea of our own body by recognising that we are mostly made up of non-human bacterial cells. These ideas have shaped digital and biological understandings of our human self and are technically and conceptually reflected in LIVING MIRROR.
A living mirror is a very seducing idea. Do you see possible applications for it? Or was it just an artistic experiment?
Throughout the project we have been in communication with many leading researchers and there are certainly some specific technological overlaps (i.e. possible use of shimmer as a magnetic measurement or methods for orienting or guiding cells). As a display what can be seen is certainly different to existing technologies and LIVING MIRROR remains a research-based artwork.
Thanks Laura and Howard!
The Living Mirror and the other winning projects of DA4GA are on view until 15 December at Raamsteeg2 in Leiden, in The Netherlands.


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Smelling the enticing scent of success, many brands have launched their own "chocolate" range. Whether a beauty treatment or sweet treat, cocoa continues to seduce our senses.
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Just talking about it makes your senses buzz and tempts your tastebuds! Chocolate is a taste sensation - a sin - that many of us love to relish.
But you may not know that cocoa was originally used for body care. Aztecs knew how to make the most of chocolate's "raw material" for their beauty rituals.
So, how can you benefit from cocoa's cosmetic properties these days? No need to throw yourself into Charlie's chocolate river! To savour the benefits of cocoa, a few beauty treatments will do the trick.
Cocoa: star of the cosmetic world
Long blamed for adding pounds to our waistlines or causing acne, today chocolate is taking its revenge. A veritable golden nugget for cosmetics, the cocoa bean boasts many properties. Anti-aging, anti-cellulite, relaxing... cocoa could have been the star if chocolate hadn't upstaged it.
"Cocoa is the raw material for beauty treatments," explains Dr. Bulidon, nutritionist at Royan thalassotherapy centre in the Gironde region of France. "We talk of chocolate treatments (rather than cocoa) because chocolate's power on the imagination is much stronger, more enticing," he admits.
This opinion is shared by James Frerebau, co-founder of the brand Sensation Chocolat. "Chocolate is first and foremost about marketing, as chocolate itself doesn't bring anything to skin in terms of cosmetic properties," he explains. "It's the richness of the cocoa that is beneficial to our skin".
Cocoa's age-old properties
Let's take a quick look at these properties - that even 1,500 years BC - Aztecs were already using for their beauty rituals.
Cocoa is has good anti-aging properties. Extremely rich in polyphenols, "it contains 50 times more than grape seeds, which are already considered as a major heavyweight in the polyphenol world," explains James Frerebau.
Dr. Bulidon continues, "Cocoa is a highly powerful antioxidant against free radicals and therefore has an indirect effect on cellular aging".
In addition to slowing down the appearance of the first signs of aging, cocoa may also have an effect on our figure and especially on cellulite. "Caffeine is found within the cocoa bean shell which tones skin tissues and slows down the effects of distending skin ", explains Frerebau.
More than a simple marketing ploy, chocolate (read cocoa) treatments are winning growing success with their anti-aging and anti-cellulite properties, not to mention their relaxing and delicious qualities.
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Cocoa contains serotonin and endorphins which have a soothing effect "beneficial against stress", explains Dr. Bulidon. Not forgetting "magnesium and vitamin B1 which equally have this soothing effect". Who has never felt that immense pleasure and feeling of relaxation after biting into a square of chocolate? Well, imagine the pleasure of slipping into a cocoa wrap smelling of sweet, delicious chocolate...
Applying a chocolate face mask, using a chocolate scrub or wrap apparently enhances our beauty but also plays a role in our wellbeing. According to James Frerebau however, "cocoa butter has to be one of the three main ingredients, otherwise it's not worth it... I advise women to buy natural skincare products, not necessarily organic. If you pay attention to avoiding preservatives such as methylparabens and propylparabens, buying organic is not a necessity".
And as for allergy risks or acne, Dr. Bulidon and James Frerebau are unanimous: "Cocoa has no allergy risks, even when applied to skin. And no study has confirmed the role of chocolate in the emergence of acne," explains nutritionist Dr. Bulidon.
Don't be mistaken however, "While chocolate-based skincare has an undeniable effect on our pleasure and relaxation levels and provides a moment of enjoyment and tranquillity, these beauty products are not as effective (for skin beauty) as a piece of real chocolate". So doctor, what's the daily chocolate dose to keep good-humoured, have beautiful skin and make the most of cocoa's properties? "30 grams of dark chocolate a day", assures Dr. Bulidon.
Don't resist temptation any longer!
Many spas and beauty treatment centres offer chocolate body wraps, massages and skin or hair masks, so do check them out the next time you are thinking of pampering yourself. In the meantime, here are some of our favourite cocoa beauty products:
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- Germaine de Capuccini Choco Scrub, Cocoa Body Exfoliator
- Akamati Organic Virgin Cocoa Butter
- Jo Malone Blue Agava & Cocoa Cologne
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Frank S. Boushley, 76, town of Hull, died Monday, July 2, 2012, at his home after a long battle with ill health, while under the care of Aspirus Hospice.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday at St. Peter Catholic Church in Stevens Point, with the Rev. Arul Joseph V. officiating. Burial will be in Guardian Angel Cemetery in Stevens Point.
Visitation will be at Shuda Funeral Chapel in Stevens Point Monday and at the church Tuesday.
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Mr. Boushley was born Nov. 13, 1935, in Stevens Point, a son of the late Frank and Mary (Raschka) Boushley. He graduated from P.J. Jacobs High School in 1955 and attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for two years.
He was married to Mary Zdroik on Feb. 9, 1957, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Stevens Point.
He worked at Lulllabye Manufacturing Co. before entering the U.S. Army on Feb. 10, 1959, at Fort Sheridan in Illinois. He served as a private first class and earned the marksman badge and served during the Berlin Crisis at Fort Lewis, Wash. He was honorably discharged as a specialist 4 from Camp McCoy on Aug. 3, 1962.
After service, the couple moved to Gretna, La., where he worked for an oil company and the U.S. Postal Service. After 12 years the couple returned to Stevens Point.
He was a member of American Legion Post 6 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 568.
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