George Micah Kuhn
blood sugar terminal
a digital pet for managing chronic illness
For the past two years a sub-dermal prosthetic device has recorded my blood glucose every five minutes. I have brought to life little digital creatures by linking them with this data, using it to determine their appearance and behaviour. By tamagotchi-fying by hormonal balance I can shift and explore new homeostatic patterns. These explorations are recorded as a short film shown in G05. The digital creatures, still responding live to my blood sugar, are displayed in a digital terminal embedded in the church wall.
George Micah Kuhn is a digital ecologist working with computer worms, pharmaceutical technology and internet environments. He is currently in the field researching time, evolution and decay in computational spaces. His findings are reported as zines, games and films
