Reference
Example of prior work
- Botanicalls
- Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi
- ''Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics.''
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- The Interactive Plant Growing
- Sommerer Mignonneau
- ''Designing interfaces between vegetal and device-related systems, between man and machine, is one of the greatest
challenges of interactive technology.''
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- GreenHouse
- Brendan Wypich
- ''GreenHouse represents the merger of industry, science and technology in the creation of an art system that directly challenges the distinction between what is natural and what is synthetic.''
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- The Telegarden
- Ken Goldberg and Joseph Santarromana (UC Irvine)
- ''This tele-robotic installation allows internet users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.''
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- Teaching a Plant the Alphabet
- John Baldessari
- ''Teaching a Plant the Alphabet is an exercise in futility, an absurdist lesson in cognition and recognition.''
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- Singing Plant
- Mads Hobye and Asmund Boye Kverneland
- ''A plant is wired up to a theremin, and through custom software, triggers various samples based on the theremin's pitch. A sensor system detects users approaching the plant and then dims a spotlight placed over the plant.''
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- Ecological Plantron
- Yuji Dpgane
- ''Ecological Plantron measures the minute electrical changes which flow across the surface of the leaves of plants and changes them into sounds.''
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