Prototype for a New Biomachine – C… what it takes to change https://ars.electronica.art/c/en Ars Electronica 2014 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Prototype for a New Biomachine https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/prototype-for-a-new-biomachine/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:27:13 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=3596 Continue reading →]]> Ivan Henriques (BR)
THU September 4 - MON September 8 2014, 7:30 AM - 7:30 PM
Kleider machen Leute, Herrenstraße 14

Now that lots of people are going hightech, it’s high time for plants to do so too. Brazilian artist Ivan Henriques’ interactive “Biomachine” explores new channels of communication among human beings, living organisms and machines. It transforms a tropical plant into a sensor. When an installation visitor touches the leaves of this Homalomena, a flowering plant of the Araceae (Arum) family, the entire plant registers this stimulus and transmits an electrical signal to an attached machine that proceeds to go into motion.

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