Artificial Intelligence & Life Art
AWARD OF DISTINCTION
Installation
Špela Petrič received an award for her three-part series Confronting Vegetal Otherness in which she deals with different forms of exchange between humans and plants. Her project Phytoteratology is a molecular performance in which plant embryos are grown in artificial wombs in lieu of seeds.
The baby plants are nourished with hormones extracted from the artist’s urine. Thus plant-human hybrids (phytopolutans) are bred. With this artistic-scientific project, incorporating biotechnology and computer-aided design of life, Petrič proposes new kinship between humans and plants.
