Exhibition “BLOB – p.polycephalum”

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

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Exploring concepts such as displacement, invasion, growth, and plasticity, students worked with their teachers to develop artistic proposals using various media, including sculpture, drawing, video, photography, and installation.

The blob, scientifically known as Physarum polycephalum, is a single-celled organism capable of learning and memorizing information. It can also learn from its peers by merging with them. Through various experiments, researchers have found that when blobs are placed side by side—one experienced, the other inexperienced—the new individual responds with the same characteristics as the experienced one. The process is verified with all blobs that merge with several others. Once separated, they regain their original memory. On the other hand, a blob cut into pieces becomes as many individual and completely identical blobs, but these can collaborate to merge again to become a larger specimen, capable of finding the way out of a maze by taking the shortest path.

Practical information:

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

An event organized by the cultural department of the Faculty of Education and the Montpellier School of Fine Arts – MoCo.