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Blender Studies 41.01 (Amœboid Paradigm)

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Description

The development of this work was inspired by science and politics, to be specific, the motility and taxonomy of amoeboid eukaryotes and the regulations pertaining to countries restricting the travel of certain groups of people. The four sides of this video represent the edges of a microscope slide on which an amoeboid organism is confined and observed. Subsequesntly, they also symbolize the construct of border restrictions arbitrarily banning some people from international travel. The digital amoeboid movements resemble their amorphic counterparts in nature, which use a cytoplasmic pseudopod for motility to crawl or to glide. Within the amoeba taxonomic system developed over the course of 250 years until the early 2000’s, all microorganisms with this physical phenotype were generalized into a singular group, the Sarcodina phylum. With the use of genetic sequencing and bioinformatics, diversity within this group was proven to be more extensive than previously thought, thus resulting in a major paradigm shift in the categorization and the research of the organisms. Paradoxically, amoeboids have been liberated from the stereotyping caused by the way one looks, a luxury still not afforded by people of color, minority groups, and the vulnerable.

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amœboid

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amoeba

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borders