The first Biorama event took place at the University of Huddersfield on 13th July 2007 and consisted of the morning Biorama Hike follwed by lunch, the Biorama sessions and finally some audio performance. The hike was led by Andy Gracie and Brandon Ballongee and served to contextualise and explore some of the themes covered in Andy’s residency, of which Biorama was the closing act. Twenty people braved the cold and the rain for a few hours trekking across Marsden Moor discussing satellites, mapping systems, microbial life and hunting for frogs and other specimens.
In the afternoon sessions there were presentations by Andy Gracie, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Brandon Ballongee, C-LAB, France Cadet, London Fieldworks and E-Toy. The evening was seen out with beautiful sound performances by Thor Magnusson and Enrike Hurtado of Ixi.
Following on from the highly successful and well received Biorama, Biorama2 explores the biology of the underground through the notion of ‘umwelt’ developed by Jakob von Uexküll (1864 – 1944) and its influence on the development of biosemiotics by Thomas Sebeok (1920 – 2001). Biorama2 staged a series of discussions, workshops and expeditions examined how organisms living independently of sunlight develop a sensory and informatic relationship with their strange environments. Speakers: Oron Catts, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Ulla Taipale, Graham Proudlove, Paul Humphreys, Anthony Hall, Andy Gracie and Joe Gilmore.