Release dates of Electric life
The graphic novel Electric Life will be launched in The Netherlands by Scratch Books, Amsterdam on the 18th of September, in the US, the UK and Canada by Macmillan’s 23 Street on the 19th of November and is somewhere in 2026 expected to be launched in China.
A behind-the-scenes look into Electric Life
This snapshot shows the early process of imagining a future research center, dedicated to exploring the electromagnetic possibilities of human bioelectricity.
What may seem futuristic has surprisingly deep roots: as early as the 1750s, doctors and scientists were already experimenting with electricity as medicine. Curious? Have a look at F. Winckel’s ‘Medicalising Electricity in the Dutch Republic, 1745–1789 (2022)’.
Magic life of bacteria (1)
Microbes communicate with each other and their surroundings by means of both wireless and wired electromagnetic signals. Chromosomes act as antennae with signals that travel through genetic circuits to produce species-specific frequencies. Different species of bacteria have different DNA lengths in their chromosomes. These lengths determine the frequency. (Widom, 2011).
Magic life of bacteria (2)
How does a bacterial colony function? A bacterial colony can divide work. For instance, the outer microbes may defend against threats or breathe for the whole, whereas bacteria living in a colony at the bottom of a lake may specialize in finding or producing food for the whole colony. Bacteria appear to use electrically charged particles to organize and synchronize all their activities inside the colony. (Süel, 2015).