aquí un capitulo de la serie de la bbc The Private Life Of Plants en esta capitulo hablan sobre la forma en que las plantas trabajan para ganar territorio y ser especies exitosas. La serie muestra unos timelapse de estas “apropiaciones de territorio”
Category: Referencias
Esta sección compila proyectos relevantes tanto tecnica como conceptualmente.
WindowFarms
A Windowfarm is a vertical, hydroponic growing system that allows for year-round growing in almost any window. It lets plants use natural window light, the climate control of your living space, and organic “liquid soil.”
In the hydroponic system, nutrient-spiked water is pumped up from a reservoir at the base of the system and trickles down from bottle to bottle, bathing the roots along the way. Water and nutrients that are not absorbed collect in the reservoir and will be pumped through again at the next interval.
Gilberto Esparza- Plantas Nómadas
A species made up of a group of organisms living in symbiosis in order to survive in habitats affected by human activity. A robot processes and purifies chemical pollutants and waste from residual waters into nutrients for a plant and energy for machine operation.
sitio del proyecto: http://www.plantasnomadas.com/
Hamilton Mestizo – Algas Verdes 2.0
Green Algae Chlorophyta are photosynthetic organisms quite a lot of in freshwaters around the earth. The Alga survives with three mainly elements: solar radiation, water and carbon dioxide. Thus it produces carbohydrates (ch2o) indispensable for its own live, oxygen and other simple gases (like hydrogen) are liberated to atmosphere by Algae metabolism process. Algae are easy to meet in rivers, lakes, fountains, etc. Green Algae collecting/harvesting are very easy to do, an Aquarium or translucent bottle could be a simple photobioreactor where Algae would be grown.
Documentation: http://algasverdes.librepensante.org/
Allison Kudla – capacity for (urban eden, human error)
This system uses a computer controlled four-axis positioning table to “print” intricate bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds. Suspended in a clear gel growth medium, the moss continues to grow and the seeds sprout. The algorithmically-generated patterns drawn by the system are based on the Eden growth model and leverage mathematical representations of both urban growth and cellular growth, thereby connecting the concept of city with the concept of the organism. This project is working to make concrete the idea of dynamic and fluid computer space altering the expression and formation of a living and growing biological material, via its collaboration with an engineering mechanism.
Video documentation: http://allisonx.com/2010/09/organic-printer/
Full project description: http://allisonx.com/2009/09/capacity-for-urban-eden-human-error-bumbershoot-version/
Ivan Henriques – Jurema Action Plant
Jurema Action Plant is an interactive bio-machine. It consists in a customized machine which interfaces a sensitive plant (Mimosa Pudica).
Jurema Action Plant aims to empower plants by enabling them to use similar technologies as humans use. It is also explores new ways of communication and co-relation between humans, living organism and a machine.
Documentation: http://ivanhenriques.wordpress.com/naturetechnology/jurema-action-plant/
Guto Nobrega – Breathing
Breathing is a work of art based on a hybrid creature made of a living organism (a plant) and an artificial system. The creature responds to its environment through movement, light and the noise of its mechanical parts. Breathing is the best way to interact with the creature. This work is the result of an investigation of plants as sensitive agents for the creation of art. The intention was to explore new forms of artistic experience through the dialogue of natural and artificial processes. Breathing is a pre-requisite for life, and is the path that links the observer to the creature.
Documentation : archive.gutonobrega.co.uk/#1619978/Breathing
Ariel Guzik – Concierto para plantas
Concierto para Plantas es una instalación en donde el ejecutor es una planta conectada mediante pequeños electrodos al Laúd y la música es dirigida a un público también conformado por plantas. En este caso, la planta ejecutante será una cactácea del desierto de San Luís Potosí. Y las plantas participantes como público, provienen de diversas regiones del país, a manera embajadoras. Todas ellas son habitantes del Conservatorio de Plantas Mexicanas e integrantes de la colección botánica de El Charco del Ingenio.
John Cage y su cactus amplificado
An amplified cactus is a cactus plant used as a musical instrument. It harnesses the acoustic properties of a cactus (preferably a Denmoza or Geohintonia)[clarification needed], by applying contact microphones and amplifying their projection and tone.[1] The effect is somewhat ethereal, making it a suitable genre over which modern dance might be choreographed. Vivien Schweitzer of The New York Times reports “Jason Treuting played an amplified cactus, running his hand over the plant’s unfriendly spikes to produce an alluring sound like a babbling brook
Brainwaves and plants
http://www.miyamasaoka.com/media_files/video/pieces_for_plants7_nyu.html
Presented as part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Homemade Instrument Day in New York, Pieces for Plants is an interactive sound installation for laptop, synthesizer, and the American semi-tropical climbing Philodendron. Versions of the piece have also been presented in a musical setting in which the plant participates as a member and soloist within an instrumental ensemble.