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)

Unnatural Language – Michael Ang and Scott Kildall

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

galoshes with crepuscle camera at night — Crepuscle, by Ashlin Aronin

Night falls in Gamboa, Panama — site of the 2019 Digital Naturalism Conference. The…

Rainforest Digital Memories

Project by Marta Verde. In Gamboa, I felt really astonished by the gorgeous nature…

Sculpting Shadows

By Albert Thrower – albertthrower@gmail.com OVERVIEW In this project, I created three-dimensional sculptural artworks…

Audio Synthesis of the Túngara Frog Call

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

Kitty made a comic

I’m learning how to use Procreate, and I thought I’d use it to flesh…

complexity + leafcutters: code/improvisation

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

Froggy camouflage handheld fans

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

Kris Casey – Beginning Endless Forms

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

Rust Garden

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

The Sustainable Zine

The Sustainable Zine featuring the DinaCon logo lasercut by Andy Quitmeyer Zines have been…

Butterfly Wing Site-Specific Installation – Emily Volk

Inspired by the scale detail of butterfly wings, my project at Digital Naturalism centered…

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

Smart environments: from natural to digital

In the future, we will live in “smart environments”. A smart environment is filled with…

Beginning notes on plant scatter – maps/pictorial forms

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

Foraging Map, Koh Lon – Craig Durkin

Craig Durkin started mapping fruit and foods you can find on the island! Many new…

Tidal Memories

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

The Department of Amphibological Research is now open for submissions!

Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, we take image recognition on new expeditions in the…

Sonic Lace

Initiated at DinaCon 2018 at Lone Island, sonic lace combines textile speaker making with needlepoint…

Sun Set Clock — Sun Set Clock – Prototype

Technology separates us from nature, but does it need to? I used some of my…

Ode to Dinacon

The Best Thing about Dinacon You work get hot maybe frustrated too and then take…

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

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

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

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

Tree Yabbie – Michael Candy

Michael Candy, the world’s fastest robot tinkerer, created a slew of robots at Dinacon. One…

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

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

Excerpts from Dinacon

I came to Dinacon with the intention of writing and reading for TIGER, the next…

Translating Nature into Art

As an artist, I see myself less so as creator and more so as a…

An Underwater Studio Practice

Hannah Perner-Wilson (+C, KOBAKANT) During my 7 days at DiNaCon I want to build myself…

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