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Australian Lyre Bird – KUUKI
e. Menura supurba by KUUKI (ISEA 2009) is an interactive artwork that explores the paradox between our fascination with the exotic, and our potentially dystopic future devoid of many animal species. The work hybridises seventeenth to early twentieth century aesthetics with refined post-consumer waste materials, to create a simulacra of a Lyre bird. The Australian Lyre bird (initially…
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Steve Gutierrez – Exploring the role of Technology and Nature in our society
Interactive CO2 Roamer (Plant Upgrade Series, 2007) slideshow. Using microcontrollers, CO2 sensors, solar panels and rechargeable batteries and motors Steve Gutierrez endows a bamboo plant with the ability to self-navigates, enabling the plant to hunt and search for light and people created CO2 gas. Steve’s work draws attention to social and environmental issues highlighting the connectedness and the…
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Cary Peppermint / ecoarttech – The Art of Networking Nature and Technology
The Art of Networking Nature and Technology – Contemporary artist, technologist, and environmentalist Cary Peppermint fuses the natural and digital worlds (Rhey, 2011). PC Mag article by Erik Rhey, (Dec 2011) introduces the work of Cary Peppermint (aka ecoarttech) and his views on nature and technology – “Like technology, I think about nature being a system or a network, and…
