Projects

Everyone coming to DINACON has just 3 simple rules:

Make Something
Document and Share it
Give feedback to at least 2 other folks about their thing!

Many projects are also collected in our books (which are available to download for free)!

Here is also a growing collection of all the amazing projects developed at our fun little jungle/sea conference!

Dinacon 2 Projects (2019)

Rust Garden

Rust is gorgeous. We marvel at its endless shades of ochre, red, orange and…

Transubstantiation – Radiophonic Sculpture Installations | living documentary

Rabía Williams (ACA) Radiophonic seed pod pictured: pod, copper wire 22, screws, AM radio…

complexity + leafcutters: code/improvisation

The shimmering, industrious leafcutter ants that build highways on the forest floor make up…

The Future Within – Grace Grothaus

Grace GrothausTHE FUTURE WITHIN: A digital seed archive and interactive sculpture series exploring threatened…

Kris Casey – Beginning Endless Forms

August 12-19th. Kris Casey is a visual artist and creative researcher from Chicago, IL….

Agouti, Agouti!

By Jason Bond, Blunderboffins Agouti, Agouti! is a work of interactive digital art (i.e….

ATTAFit – Workout Like a Leafcutter Ant

Ann Gerondelis, Drexel UniversityRaja Schaar, Drexel UniversityProject created for the Digital Naturalism Conference, 2019…

Unnatural Language – Michael Ang and Scott Kildall

By Scott (Seamus) Kildall and Michael Ang Unnatural Language, a collaboration between Michael Ang…

Tadpole Soundscapes of Gamboa

By Lee Wilkins and Samantha Wong Tadpole Soundscapes of Gamboa is a generative soundscape…

Balloon Environmental Sensing Takes to the Air

We have liftoff. My first Balloon Environmental Sensing test successfully “slipped the surly bonds…

Audio Synthesis of the Túngara Frog Call

Before the sun had even set on my first day in Gamboa I had…

Froggy camouflage handheld fans

Project by Anna Carreras. BAU Design College of Barcelona, Spain. Hand fan (abanico) inspired…

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

DinaSound is live!

Pearl Ryder is a cell biologist who came to DinaCon with the goal to explore the…

DinaCrab: Hermit Crab Behavior

When humans are near, making noise or stomping on the ground or rippling the intertidal…

Ecosystem Simulation

My goal for this simulation was to be able to abstractly demonstrate interdependence in an…

Soil/earth/dirt and poop? Connections in:/out:

Soil/earth/dirt and poop? Connections in:/out: Reflections on my time at DINACON Huiying Ng Working…

Diva PJs – “foraging nighty”

Made from old sheets used on the Diva Andaman, to softness of the fabric inspired…

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

Inspired by the microscopic creatures making the seas around her glow, Kitty Quitmeyer, created a…

Bioluminescence Textile – Elizabeth Bigger

by Elizabeth Bigger An unplanned and rapid experiment resulted from an evening of swimming with…

Mobile Coconut Yarn Holder – Danielle Hoogendijk

Dani sneakily crafted this wonderful device as a present for our node leader, Kitty Quitmeyer,…

DinaSynth Quartet – Scott (Seamus) Kildall

At Dinacon 2018, Scott (Seamus) Kildall prototyped a new project called DinaSynth Quartet, which is…

Robot Language Music Video-by Albert and Mary (Dezmediah)

with help from Maggie Kane, Tasneem Khan, Mark Lifana, and Andy Quitmeyer Make a kickass…

That Strange Sensation by Dezmediah

My main project at Dinacon was to write a short story inspired by one or…

Tidal Memories

Tidal Memories displays Dinacon photos against an animated intertidal zone. Tidal Memories is an interactive,…

Cococrafts 2 – Turn coconut into rope and wire: Dennis and Lydia

What to do with all those coconut husks? Make stuff with them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXEESP6s50

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

My project was to develop a low-cost, open-source platform for testing the perceptual and cognitive…

Beginning notes on plant scatter – maps/pictorial forms

notes by Huiying Ng building on Craig Durkin’s foraging map Some old/fossilied DINAsaurs are…

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