JellyFriends. Digital Pot tells you what Plants want by Junyi Heo. Plants Tell You What They Want Growing plants would be a lot easier if plants could express what it is they need from you. Fret not because that’s what the Pet Plant by Junyi Heo does. The very sleek looking pot measures soil conditions, temperature, humidity, and water – calculates those variables based on the need of said plant, and expresses its condition via a series of pictograms on an LCD display. It’s also smart enough to know if you’ve over watered and will systematically drain itself into a water vessel. All this high tech goodness does mean it needs power but a simple USB interface does double duty by charging and transmitting pertinent information to and from computer software. Designer: Junyi Heo. Metropolis: All New Restoration. Restoration | Production | Timeline ABOUT THE PRODUCTION In 1924, Germany's UFA Studios sent their star producer Erich Pommer and star director Fritz Lang to the gala New York premiere of their two-part mythic spectacle Die Niebelungen.
For years, Lang claimed that he conceived Metropolis ("the glaring lights and the tall buildings") on this trip, although he and his co-scenarist (and wife) Thea Von Harbou had already been at work on the concept and scenario for more than a year at this point. Ultimately, though, it was Lang and Pommer's whirlwind VIP tour of several Hollywood film studios on a subsequent leg of their American junket that may have influenced Metropolis more than anything else. Humbled by the technical superiority and perfect vertical integration of the studios, it was here that the men realized that their next picture would have to be of a size and scope that could rival the craftsmanship and spectacle that had become synonymous with American picture making.
Muse – Musical Pot For Plants by Lie Zhong-Fa, Koo Yoori & Jeon Se-Yong. Musical Plants The Muse musical vase serenades you with sweet harmonies every time you wind it up. Like a music box but instead of a ballerina, it’s your favorite plant. Kind of reminds me of those plastic sunflowers with sunglasses that would dance when the sun hit them. Almost similar but this is much prettier to look at. Look how happy the models are. They are absolutely thrilled with their singing plants. Schattengewächs Lamp and Flowerpot by Maximilian Winkel.
Plants of Light Schattengewächs begins like any other grow-it-yourself plant kit but the payoff isn’t a real plant, rather it’s a light – shaped like flowers, trees and even insects. Adore the play between real and artificial. There’s no power switch. It automatically “grows” thanks to a photosensor and the whole thing runs on four coin cell batteries. The pot is made of clay and all the inner bits are molded from biological plastic. By the way, Maximilian Winkel is an awesome name. Designer: Maximilian Winkel. BIO ART. Natural History of the Enigma (2003/08) -- The central work in the "Natural History of the Enigma" series is a plantimal, a new life form Kac created and that he calls "Edunia", a genetically-engineered flower that is a hybrid of Kac and Petunia. The Edunia expresses Kac's DNA exclusively in the red veins of the flower. The gene Kac selected is responsible for the identification of foreign bodies.
In this work, it is precisely that which identifies and rejects the Other that the artist integrates into the Other, thus creating a new kind of self that is partially flower and partially human. Developed between 2003 and 2008, and first exhibited from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum, in Minneapolis, "Natural History of the Enigma" also encompasses a large-scale public sculpture, a print suite, photographs, and other works. WINNER OF THE 2009 GOLDEN NICA AWARD Collection Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis. Walking Head. BIOPOETRY. BIOPOETRY Eduardo Kac Since the 1980s poetry has effectively moved away from the printed page.
From the early days of the minitel to the personal computer as a writing and reading environment, we have witnessed the development of new poetic languages. Video, holography, programming and the web have further expanded the possibilities and the reach of this new poetry. Now, in a world of clones, chimeras, and transgenic creatures, it is time to consider new directions for poetry in vivo. Below I propose the use of biotechnology and living organisms in poetry as a new realm of verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal creation. 1) Microbot performance: Write and perform with a microrobot in the language of the bees, for a bee audience, in a semi-functional, semi-fictional dance. 2) Atomic writing: position atoms precisely and create molecules to spell words. 4) Transgenic poetry: synthesize DNA according to invented codes to write words and sentences using combinations of nucleotides.