Meditative Symbiosis is a trans-disciplinary project that explores the interdependence of a living organism and an electronic system, looking for the aesthetic result of a digital-biological process.
The installation is composed of containers with plants (Soleirolia soleirolii) and sensors inside. The photosynthetic activity of the plants is sensed by the carbon dioxide absorption rate. This information is then sent to a computer module, which processes the data to create graphic patterns in real time. These are then projected on the surface plants, influencing photosynthesis by the light intensity of the figures. The process generates a cycle of constant and mutual dependence: while the plants grow, the digital image evolves from the data supplied by them, producing a bio-electronic aesthetic that evolves in time.
Project Credits:
- This project is supported by: Fablab U.Chile. Research laboratory. Technical and staff support.
- Development team:
- Sensor and electronic interfaces: Esteban Norambuena
- Computer platform and programming: Mauricio Hormazabal
- Second scientific support: Daniel Opazo Bunster
- Automatization interfaces: Nicolás Briceño
- Supported by Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio and the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | Gobierno de Chile
Biographies:
Jean Danton Laffert (CL) is a visual artist and teacher, with a Master in Media Arts from the University of Chile. He has exhibited individually and as part of a collective in various international platforms for video art, installation and electronic art. From a systems-based aesthetic, his work is based on the relationships between art, science and nature. He is currently exploring “nature-technology” binomial, with a focus on how the organic and synthetic interlace.
Karin Astudillo Sánchez (CL) studied Humanities and Philosophy at Alberto Hurtado University. She has participated in interdisciplinary workshops, lectures, manuals and multigenerational teaching based on the philosophical methods of M. Lipman. She is currently investigating epistemology and the perspectivism in the L. Wittgenstein’s notion of form(s) of life.
Camilo Gouet Hiriart (CL) is a biologist from the University of Chile, with a PhD in Psychology by the Universidad Católica de Chile. He has researched the physiology of memory, development psychology focused on the study of intuition and cognitive modeling. He is also a teacher and has collaborated with interdisciplinary groups in science diffusion projects.
