slimoco @ Margate Photo Festival, August 2011

[Heather Barnett]

I took some Physarum to the Margate Photo Festival last weekend and invited visitors to feed it with a variety of substances to establish likes and dislikes. Obvious liking for oats and rice, pasta and flour; distinct dislike for alka seltzer, ibuprofen and bicarbinate of soda; but I'm not too sure about tobacco and chilli powder (it seemed to investigate seriously but not engulf). Worth further investigation, with a closer position...

 

Thanks to all those who fed the slime mould. Video can be seen at:

http://slimoco.ning.com/video/physarum-experiment-no-016-likes-disl...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aet4JnI5Tk