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)

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…

Rust Garden

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

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….

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…

Agouti, Agouti!

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

The Sustainable Zine

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

Sculpting Shadows

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

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)

ImmerSea: Digital Naturalism Conference Field Report

Subversive Submersibles, water-adapted augmented reality Oya Damla, Kira deCoudres, Adam Zaretsky, Ryan Cotham Abstract -…

Translating Nature into Art

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

Tree Yabbie – Michael Candy

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

Success with water-adapted augmented reality (AR)

Success with water-adapted augmented reality (AR). Aquatic AR goggles, immersive AR environments … ImmerSea: Subversive Submersibles…

Excerpts from Dinacon

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

Ode to Dinacon

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

Sun Set Clock — Sun Set Clock – Prototype

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

3 microfictions on Koh Lon

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

Smart environments: from natural to digital

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

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…

Island take away sound glasses – Mónica Rikić

I came with the idea of making a playful device at the island. I brought…

Dinna-con Foraging Guide (PDF)

Foraged Noms! The symbiosis of Dinna-con Fossils have led to the creation of the Ko…

DIY Marine Microbes – Kitty Quitmeyer

One of our conference node leaders , Kitty Quitmeyer (wellreadpanda.com), worked on creating DIY knitted…

Mobile Coconut Yarn Holder – Danielle Hoogendijk

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

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