Symbiotic Interaction, 2016-2017

WEARABLES, 2016-2017

Symbiotic Interaction is a body-worn technological interface that promotes a plant-human symbiotic relationship, in an intimate and personalized way.

Plants are sensitive to the environment that surrounds them, his living beings perceive different factors and environmental changes that humans cannot perceive with our natural sensors.

Through the interface, five plants connected to sensors based on plants electrophysiology are monitored by measuring the reactions of these living beings in real time.This changes are perceptible for the wearer through changes in color, sound and graphics, visible through the body-worn interface, which allow her to identify patterns in the plants behavior.

EXHIBITITIONS:

>> Les Portes du possible - Art & science-fiction. Pompidou-Metz. Francia
>> Eco-Visionarios. LABoral Centro de Arte. Gijón. Spain. Switzerland. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach,
Karin Ohlenschlaeger and Yvonne Volkart. 2019
>> Eco-Visionaries. Hek. Basel. Switzerland. Curated by Sabine Himmelsbach, Karin Ohlenschlaeger
and Yvonne Volkart. 2018
>> Nova XX. Halles Saint-Géry. Bruselas. Bélgica. Curated by Stéphanie Pecourt. 2017-2018
>> LookForward Fashion Tech Festival 2017. Musee La Piscine. Roubaix France and La GÃ¢itÃ¨ Lyrique,
París. France. Curated by Anne-Sophie Berard. 2017

CREDITS:

Conceptualization | Production | Technology:
María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde
Funding:
This project has been created thanks to SoftLab Residency Scholarship at Sliperiet - a part of Arts Campus at UmeÃ¥ University. Sweden

Statement

Our work as art group brings together a collection of works and projects in which we study the interrelations and intersections that occur between machines and the human being.

We approach these issues in different kind of pieces: Interactive installations, sound interventions, multimedia pieces, etc. However, the support is not more than one channel that canalize the project itself.

A transversal and interdisciplinary research where the machine, far from a cold body, acts as an integrating factor, multiplying human capacities for equal us to other living beings or mechanical things already equipped with them.

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