BLOB - p.polycephalum" exhibition

Works by 3rd-year students at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier - MoCo.
Opening on Thursday March 14, 2019 at 6pm. Cultural space, Faculty of Education - 2 Place Marcel Godechot, 34000 Montpellier.

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Questioning the notions of displacement, invasion, growth and plasticity, the students, with the support of their teachers, developed visual proposals in a variety of media: sculpture, drawing, video, photography, installation...

The blob, whose scientific name is physarum polycephalum, is a single-cell organism capable of learning and memorizing information. It can also learn from its congeners, by merging. Through various experiments, researchers have found that when blobs are placed side by side - one experienced, the other inexperienced - the new individual responds to the same characteristics as the experienced one. The process is repeated for all blobs that merge. 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 labyrinth by taking the shortest route.

Practical info :

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

An event proposed by the cultural mission of the Faculty of Education and the Montpellier School of Fine Arts - MoCo.