HONF (The House of Natural Fiber) Foundation, based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is both a digital and a physical community engaged in an active worldwide internet-based practice to foster democratic, artistic, and open means of creative expression and innovative collaboration. HONF creates and fosters the development of digital communities, which bring together researchers, artists, (h)activists, and local civil society members (young, old, digitally savvy, and otherwise), knitting these groups to create a larger world of creative experiences. As such, it can be seen as a hybrid community-connection machine that acts as a model of innovative practice for an entire region where the access to technology and space for open and creative discourse is still extremely fragile.

The Diamagneti (C/Sm) Species project is based on the analysis of the basic language of life forms, which is converted into something that can be heard and seen as a new language. In 2010, HONF began a research project called Hyperdimensional Hexagon Theory, which conceived of a system that catches the frequency from life forms and then transforms the ‘data’ to a medium that can be felt, seen, and heard. At the 13th Istanbul Biennial, HONF presents this transdisciplinary work as an interactive-media project. The Diamagneti (C/Sm) Species project makes visible the communication between humans and plants. Through analogue technique the installation records dynamic synergies that occur between all living creatures, which it then digitally transforms into a new language of charts and statistics.

(Quoted from Stephen Kovats in 13th Istanbul Biennial Guide Book)