Exhibition “BLOB – p.polycephalum”

Works by third-year students at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier – MoCo.
Opening reception on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. Cultural Center, Faculty of Education – 2 Place Marcel Godechot, 34000 Montpellier.

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Exploring the concepts of displacement, encroachment, growth, and plasticity, the students—guided by their instructors—developed artistic proposals using various media: sculpture, drawing, video, photography, installation, and more…

The blob, whose scientific name is Physarum polycephalum, is a single-celled organism capable of learning and memorizing information. It can also learn from its counterparts by merging with them. Through various experiments, researchers have found that when blobs—one experienced, the other not—are placed side by side, the new individual exhibits the same characteristics as the experienced one. This process holds true for all blobs that fuse in groups. Once separated, they regain their original memory. However, a blob cut into pieces becomes a number of individual, completely identical blobs, but these can collaborate to fuse again and form a larger specimen capable of finding its way out of a maze by taking the shortest path.

Practical information:

School of Education
2 Place Marcel Godechot – Tram L1 Stade Philippidès
Email – 06 73 94 41 17 – Facebook

An event presented by the Culture Office of the School of Education and the Montpellier School of Fine Arts (MoCo).