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)

Watching Agoutis

I came to Dinacon already a devotee of agoutis. I had been observing them,…

Rainforest Digital Memories

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

The Frog Show – by Mónica Rikić and Ruben Oya

Frog Show wants to elevate the singing frogs to an audiovisual experience. Since our…

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

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

Froggy camouflage handheld fans

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

ATTAFit – Workout Like a Leafcutter Ant

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

Seedpod LED Hack (Easy, educational bio-augmentation project) – Emily Volk

Exploring around Gamboa on trails and streets, I became fascinated with these flower-shaped seedpods….

complexity + leafcutters: code/improvisation

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

The Sustainable Zine

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

Kitty made a comic

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

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

Beginning notes on plant scatter – maps/pictorial forms

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

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…

Translating Nature into Art

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

Tree Area Network (TAN) – a private Network for trees and humans

A TAN is a Network using plant-infrastructure to transmit data over trees. (Ingo Randolf) Introduction…

Crochetteering – a tale of fishy innovation

by Hannah Perner-Wilson (+C, KOBAKANT) My plans for Dinacon were to develop An Underwater Studio…

Excerpts from Dinacon

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

Procedural Naturalist Drawings- Jennifer Jacobs

As a programmer and a visual artist, I’m fascinated by ways to integrate different forms…

Island Caterpillar – Hannah Wolfe

https://2019.dinacon.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/caterpillar.mp4 Hannah Wolfe’s goal was to explore caterpillar movement while on the island. She looked…

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

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

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

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

Mobile Coconut Yarn Holder – Danielle Hoogendijk

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

DinaCrab: Hermit Crab Behavior

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

AUV flyby

Minor change of plans: instead of running a mission (list of waypoints), the AUV…

DinaSound is live!

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

3 microfictions on Koh Lon

The idea was to adopt the point of view of select native organisms to sketch…

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