BIOFILMEDIA is a complex aggregation of ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, RESEARCHERS, STUDENTS AND FRIENDS, marked by the CREATION of a protective and adhesive matrix, 60FILM GROUP. BIOFILMEDIA is also often characterized by surface attachment, structural heterogeneity, genetic diversity, complex community interactions, and an extracellular matrix of polymeric substances as MEDIA.

Singular ARTISTS or SCIENTISTS organisms generally exhibit two distinct modes of behavior. The first is the familiar free floating, form in which single cells float or swim independently in some MEDIA. The second is an attached state in which cells are closely packed and firmly attached to each other and usually a solid surface, as BIOFILMEDIA. The change in behavior is triggered by many factors, including quorum sensing, as well as other mechanisms that vary between species. When a cell switches modes, it undergoes a phenotypic shift in behavior in which large suites of genes are up- and down- regulated.