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-imagination, ability to collaborate, cooperate flexibly and in very large numbers, is the difference between the animals and humans, humans control the world because over the century we created beside the objective layer also fictional reality, nations, gods, money, corporations

-fictional reality became more and more powerful, nowadays survival of all the elephants for example, depends on decisions of fictional emphaties, like google, the USA, world bank, emphaties that exist only in our imagination

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSsuViqslY#action=share)

https://www.ignant.com/2015/10/08/alicja-kwade-creates-mind-bending-sculptures/

MELISSA'S PROTOTYPES

http://marcofusinato.com/art/mass-black-implosion/

/ the rise of humans

/ humans which are 0.01% of the earth's biomass destroyed 80% of the wild mammals

-the world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, yet humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants
-bacteria represent 13% of everything – but plants are representing 82% of all living matter; other insects, fungi, to fish and animals, make up just 5% of the world’s biomass
-viruses alone have a combined weight three times that of humans, as do worms; fish are 12 times greater than people and fungi 200 times as large but yet our impact on the natural world remains huge

"I would hope this gives people a perspective on the very dominant role that humanity now plays on Earth" - Prof Ron Milo

“It is definitely striking, our disproportionate place on Earth,” said Milo. “When I do a puzzle with my daughters, there is usually an elephant next to a giraffe next to a rhino. But if I was trying to give them a more realistic sense of the world, it would be a cow next to a cow next to a cow and then a chicken.” - Prof Ron Milo

/ what the world looks like through the eyes of different animals

Yoshiyuki Katayama 片山義幸, Umwelt, 2015

-the vision of every animal is unique, some can even see what we can't

mice and rats vision

https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/what-the-world-looks-like-through-the-eyes-of-different-animals-242060/

http://marcofusinato.com/art/mass-black-implosion/

/ Johann van Uexküll - Umwelt

- Jakob Johann von Uexküll was born to a Baltic-German nobility family in 1864 in Keblaste, now Mihkli, Estonia; his research shifted from muscular physiology to perception and behavioural studies; director and founder of the Institut für Umweltforschung; he developed a method together with Emanuel Sarris where the integration of objects of a human environment into the dog’s environment helps the dog to guide its human partner safely
-he saw how organisms created their own subjective Umwelt instead of such filling an environmental niche that caters to their needs

-umwelt: environment – or ambience depending on the context – and is in everyday life mostly understood as “the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity” / ”the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates”

-individual organism is always actively creating its Umwelt and not only perceiving

-does not consider certain species as dominant over others, theory accepts that umwelt is fashioned according to each organism’s abilities and needs, and therefore it does not give one species dominance over another

-blooming meadow-flower , the very same object has very different meanings for a: human child picking flowers to make a bunch, for an ant searching for an ideal pathway to a food source, a cicada-larva using the sap of the stem for constructing itself a shelter, and finally for a cow eating the whole flower; one thing, the stem of a meadow-flower, becomes four different objects: decoration, a path, an extraction point for material, or food (Martinelli 2010: 26)

-umwelt as a result of a Merkwelt and a Wirkwelt (Martinelli 2010: 279); the merkwelt is the perception world connected to the sensory processes of the functional cycle

-the perception organs of an organism react to certain stimuli from outside that carry meaning; effect organs then trigger the suitable reactions to the various stimuli; perception organs and effect organs are part of the inner world (Innenwelt) of an organism where the outer world is represented in the organism’s sign system

-“All animal subjects, from the simplest to the most complex, are inserted into their environments to the same degree of perfection. The simple animal has a simple environment; the multiform animal has an environment just as richly articulated as it is” (Uexküll 2010: 50)

-“Three Bags Full”(quote of Stephen Crane’s): sheep acting in their Umwelt to gain access to food and perhaps shelter, the story is told from their point of view, most of the humans in her own story are not interested in neither individual characteristics of sheep nor their breeds; the readers are faced with this form of anthropocentric ignorance (readers are invited to ponder the distance human life has taken from the world of animals and nature in general)

/ Erica Fudge: if the animal is perceived as commodity to fulfil human needs, such as hunger or appetite, clothing, and comfort, then humans are predators or parasites of animals

https://pictureforyou.website/bouquet-dhiver-fleurs-sechees-et-branches-nues/

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Idea based on Neza's research above: To percept the world through the view of a fish held in a transparent bowl with actual water in it an led sound through the water from 'the umwelt'

TESTING THE SENSES IN WATER

-In week 3 I found a website that shows experiments with static energy. One of the experiments I found very interesting and decided to test it myself. According to the website this experiment is called "Dancing Balls". The idea of static energy really appeals to me. Your body is used as an effective tool to make the balls move.

https://woordenbeeldclub.com/

-The balls are going to dance on a static plate of polycarbonate. By rubb-ing with a cloth over the polycarbonate plate, the plate becomes static. Objects with equal loads repel each other, objects with equal loads attract each other. A statically charged object can cause influx in a conductor, positive and negative charge is separated from each other. By using your hands, you make the balls move because they are rejected by an equal load.

- Styrofoam balls
- Aluminium foil
- 4 wooden blocks
- Polycarbonate plate
- Aluminium on the bottom
- A box

-We as a group wanted to test this ourselves, and have collected as much of the same stuff as possible. The test functioned quite well, but you have to generate static energy over and over again by using a cloth or balloon. You can feel the static energy while move the balls. It is a strange feeling but than you know for sure that it is working.

Different experiment with static electricity by Asle

Whereas Melissa tried recreating an experiment I went totally bananas without any predecessors to follow in my pursuit of manipulating with static electricity. In short it didn't work. But that won't stop me from taking you through it.

The thing about static electricity that we discovered via Melissas experiment was that it is extremely unpredictable and hard to harness. In short; static electricity is about removing electrons so that your material becomes a capacitator. But what afterwards rejected or attracted the aluminium balls seemed completely random.

I therefore had this crazy and anything but scientific thought that you migt be able to influence the ionised aluminium balls via the short 'high voltage' that the 'ignition thing' from a lightercould make.

Together with mainly Elisa, who found a sudden interest sitting beside us, I tried to apply the short electric shock to all parts of the experiment in all possible ways. But without any clear and uniform effect. Sometimes it made the ionised aluminium balls fall from the glass plate that they were stuck to. Other times it didn't do anything.

By input of Elisa I then tried to make a coil to see if that would effect something. Simply copper wire around a tree core with a hole in the middle where we tried to place more or less ionised aluminium balls. Also without any result.

Making the wooden structure for the coil I also had a discovery with the Laser cutter. As seen on the pictures I put parts of the things i wanted to cut out on "no output" since the material leftover didn't fit all the things arranged as in the illustrator file.

But when I tried to frame on the laser cutter, it showed a frame much larger than the actual pieces that were to be cut. Eventually I cut a test in plane paper and suddently realised that it frames everything - even without output. That can make it difficult to place you things onm especially small pieces of materials - unless you change the referencepoint to your need!

I even tried with different batteries to get a steady flow of electricity with both 1.5V and 9V. Still it didn't make an impact different than using the coil without any supply of electricity.

placing the speaker inside the water and seeing how the sound reacts to the water.

The sound became more muffle and the higher tones seemed to disappear the most.

seeing the reaction of having the speaker half way in the water and observing the changes in sound quality

A partly submerged speaker makes a lot of 'mechanical noise'

checking whether the sound can shape the water which is surrounding it

The sound waves are only visually shown by visible moving water when the speaker is breaking the surface or very close to

testing the loudness of the sounds outside water, while being inside the water

You can hear voices but they are low an slightly distorted

https://www.amronintl.com/amron-international-8891-03-oxygen-treatment-hood-assembly-with-untrimmed-silicone-neck-seal.html

moving the speaker around the object in which is water and figuring out how that influences the sound perceived inside the water

trying to see whether you can recognise from where the sound sis coming from

Even though submerged the idea of the direction of the sound from above the water is still okay accurate

putting the speaker inside of the water and testing how the water transmits it

The reason for Asle to take out his head of the so quickly is that the volume increases dramaticly. The bass sounds where actually hurting his eardrums.

Water transmit sounds way differently than air depending.

If the speaker is submerged into the water, the voices from e.g. a song is barely recognisable but the low frequencies are much higher and can easily not only be percepted as sound but also as pressure (against the eardrum)

In a small basin like the box used it is additionally hard to decide where the sound is coming from though it physically is few centimeters from your ear. It's like chaotic surround sound that makes you confused rather than makes you aware of the directions of the sounds.

If the speaker is not in contact with the water, the sound is muffled but still recognisable to a grater extend than if the speaker is submerged. It is also possible to define from where the sound is coming.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNINGS

/ one of the biggest realisations of this week was that if your share your ideas, it can inspire someone else to think of another idea or element which could make the idea more relevant for the topic or theme and that is what we experienced throughout the week
/literally Neža sharing the idea with Asle about the umwelt box on the head idea, combined with visuals inspired Asle to think of 'fish hat' which would make us realise how fish actually experiences its umwelt
/ this week we felt extremely inspired by each other and decisive enough to proceed with the experiments quickly, without thinking
/ one of our conclusions was that working with a hands on approach helps you get further than a theory research would and that it also makes you realise what is possible and what not, without making a plan first
/ overall the week resulted in great conclusions and the fact we each were passionate and had fun with the idea of 'fish hat' has helped a lot