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)

The Frog Show – by Mónica Rikić and Ruben Oya

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

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…

Tadpole Soundscapes of Gamboa

By Lee Wilkins and Samantha Wong Tadpole Soundscapes of Gamboa is a generative soundscape…

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

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

The Sustainable Zine

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

Unnatural Language – Michael Ang and Scott Kildall

By Scott (Seamus) Kildall and Michael Ang Unnatural Language, a collaboration between Michael Ang…

Audio Synthesis of the Túngara Frog Call

Before the sun had even set on my first day in Gamboa I had…

Kris Casey – Beginning Endless Forms

August 12-19th. Kris Casey is a visual artist and creative researcher from Chicago, IL….

Agouti, Agouti!

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

Rust Garden

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

Sculpting Shadows

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

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Dinacon 1 Projects (2561/2018)

Dinna-con Foraging Guide (PDF)

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

Wild Behavior – Jonathan Gill

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

Translating Nature into Art

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

Dinnercon: Recipe Book and Foraging Guide

This is a wonderful recipe book filled with foraged and fun ingredients from our time…

Glowing Dinaflagellate – Kitty Quitmeyer

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

Dinaclock: A time-correct view of Chalong Bay

Josh Michaels – http://joshjet.net I spent my time on the island filming time-lapse photos of…

Recycloom (recycled textile loom)

In early summer 2017, Streetcat (https://www.streetcat.media/) participated as a node leader for the inaugural Digital…

Coconut water catcher 1.0

Are your bowls too small to catch your coconut water? Do you struggle to prevent…

Ecosystem Simulation

My goal for this simulation was to be able to abstractly demonstrate interdependence in an…

Hacking a camera to hack the jungle

This is a simple camera hack that can be done just about anywhere. We modified…

3 microfictions on Koh Lon

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

CRAB LAB

an Amphibological Research Project Introduction Here at the Department of Amphibological Research, our primary studies…

Foraging Map, Koh Lon – Craig Durkin

Craig Durkin started mapping fruit and foods you can find on the island! Many new…

Cococrafts 1 – Open a coconut: Dennis and Lydia

How to video straight from #dinacon! Dennis teaches you how to easily get into coconuts…

Sonic Lace

Initiated at DinaCon 2018 at Lone Island, sonic lace combines textile speaker making with needlepoint…

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