By Andrew Quitmeyer

1. • Prelude– Creatures and Computers
• Background
– Digital Media Designers work with Field Biologists
– Cool Tech gives them amazing new abilities
– Tech can also cut them off from nature
– How can digital Media designers keep them wild and experienced
• Moving Into the Wild
– Meeting Field Bioloigst
– Setting up a lab in field station in panama
– Rapid Iterations, back and forth between lab and field
• Hiking Hacks
– Structure
• Wearable Studio
– Theory
– Examples
– Expansion into other domains, (if you can build in the wild, you can
build ANYWHERE)
• Mobile Studios
– Make laboratories that can travel with you, (not necessarily on you)
– Built our own floating lab in Philippines
– Turned sailboats into makerspaces
– Worked on a DIY research ship in oklahoma
• Ways to join
– First announcement of our free conference for artists and biologists
in Summer 2018
– Art show coming up in NYC
– Encourage people to just go play outside with electronics and
nature
• Conclusion
Outline

4. Prelude

9. Natural

10. Digital

11. Understand
Design

14. Hiking Hacks
Wearable Studios and
Biocrafting in the Wild
Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
andy@quitmeyer.org
@hikinghack
2017 / 11 / 26 - DASER

15. Hi, I’m
Andy.

16. Art and Technology

17. for Biologists

18. with Biologists

19. In the Wild

20. BACKGROUND
Lab vs Field | Digital Naturalism

21. Digital Tech in Ethology

22. Digital Technology

23. Awesome in the Lab

24. Failing in the Wild

25. Software Failing in the Wild

26. LabField

27. Digital Technology

28. MOVING INTO THE WILD
Naturalists | Field Stations | Expeditions

29. Empiricism vs Naturalism
Lab - Skinner Box Field – Lorenz and Geese

30. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - Panama
Contemporary Naturalists

31. Jungle Stop-and-Chat - Panama

32. Studying Scientific Community

33. Crafting Bat Mazes

34. Handmade glass + plastic tadpole holders

37. LABORATORY IN THE WILD
Hiking Hacks | Wearable Studios | Mobile Studios

38. Hiking Hack

39. Hike Out

40. Wilderness

41. Carrying Tools

42. Living

43. Designing

44. Reflecting

45. Documenting

46. Hiking Hack

47. Hiking Hacks
Panama 2014 Madagascar 2015 US 2015

49. Ant sensor w/ Tongue display

50. Simultaneous Behavior Probe
Get Video
of Party
boat

51. Firefly Suits

52. Leaf Speakers

53. Replantment
with Madeline Schwartzman

54. Capturing Wild Forms

57. with Madeline Schwartzman

58. WEARABLE, MOBILE STUDIOS
Protection | Organization | Worksurfaces | Power

59. Wearable Studio Practice
Perner-Wilson, Quitmeyer

72. Extending the Body

76. Hip Worksurface

77. Knee Soldering Station

81. MOBILE STUDIOS
Marine Hacks

82. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

83. BOAT Lab
Philippines 2016

84. BOAT Lab
Philippines 2016

85. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

86. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

87. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

88. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

89. Felipe Castelblanco – Art Ambassador Philippines
2015
Philippines 2016

90. Singapore / Indonesia / Anambas Islands
Sailing Hack - 2017

91. Singapore / Indonesia / Anambas Islands
Sailing Hack - 2017

92. Singapore / Indonesia / Anambas Islands
Sailing Hack - 2017

93. Singapore / Indonesia / Anambas Islands
Exploring Technology

95. SV Seeker – Tulsa, OK, USA

96. Diva Andaman – Phuket
Commercial Vessel – Biology Makerspace

97. ART-SCIENCE FIELD STATIONS
Digital Naturalism Conference

98. The Digital Naturalism Conference
www.dinacon.org
Koh Lon, Thailand, May 26 – July 28, 2018

99. Hackers, Biologists, Artists!
www.dinacon.org
Thailand, June – July 2018

100. Hackers, Biologists, Artists!
www.DiNaCon.org
Thailand, June – July 2018

101. CONCLUSION
Digital Naturalists

104. The Digital Naturalism Conference
www.dinacon.org
Thailand, June – July 2018

106. The Digital Naturalism Conference
www.dinacon.org
Thailand, June – July 2018

107. The Digital Naturalism Conference
www.dinacon.org
Thailand, June – July 2018

108. Thank You!
www.digitalnaturalism.org
Dr. Andrew Quitmeyer
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Instagram / twitter / RIOT :
@hikinghack

109. Reference Material
Bonus Slides

110. GET INVOLVED
Resources | Conference | Art Show

111. www.digitalnaturalism.org
More info! Videos! Free Books! Art!

112. Go Play Outside!

113. Hiking Hacks

114. Digital Naturalism
Result: Mobile Wilderness Workshop Model

115. See Yourself E(x)ist
Pratt Manhattan Gallery – Dec 7, 2017
(Runs Dec 7 – February 17)

116. At first glance, studying behavior is easy, but as every
budding ethologist quickly realizes, there are a host of
complex, practical, methodological, and analytical
problems to solve before designing and conducting
the study. ‘How do you choose which species or which
behavior to study? What equipment will you need to
observe and record behavior successfully? How do you
record data in the dark, in the wet, or without missing
part of the action? How do you analyse and interpret the
data to yield meaningful information?’
Lehner,HandbookofEthologicalMethods
Technology and Ethology

117. At first glance, studying behavior is easy, but as every
budding ethologist quickly realizes, there are a host of
complex, practical, methodological, and analytical
problems to solve before designing and conducting
the study. ‘How do you choose which species or which
behavior to study? What equipment will you need to
observe and record behavior successfully? How do you
record data in the dark, in the wet, or without missing
part of the action? How do you analyse and interpret the
data to yield meaningful information?’
Lehner,HandbookofEthologicalMethods

119. Rapid Deploy Worksurfaces