Botanicus Interacticus – Designing interactive plants at Disney Research

Author Filip VisnjicCategory Members Other People Posted on:

Botanicus Interacticus is the tatest project created at Disney Research by Ivan Poupyrev in collaboration with Philipp Schoessler, Jonas Loh/Studio NAND, and Munehiko Sato. The project is concerned with developing technology for designing "highly expressive interactive plants", both living and artificial. Driven by the rapid fusion of computing and living spaces, the team take interaction from computing devices and places it in the physical world using livings plants as an interactive medium.

Sorry, this is Members Only content. Please Log-in.

Join us today by becoming a Member.

• Archive: Access thousands of projects, scores of essays, interviews and reviews.
• Publish: Post your projects, events, announcements.
• Discuss: Join our Discord for events, open calls and even more projects.
• Education: Tutorials (beginners and advanced) with code examples and downloads.
• Jobs Archive: Find employers who have recruited here in the past (over 1,000 jobs).
• Discounts: Special offers and giveaways (events, books and media).
• Ad-Free Reading: No advertisements or banners of any kind.
• Studios/Organisations: Read more about benefits here.

Read More

/++

Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adjustable landscapes

Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, ‘Artificial Arcadia’ is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape entangles natural, artificial and digital realms.

In the Eyes of the Animal – MLF virtualise a forest through the eyes of its creatures

In the Eyes of the Animal is the latest installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast, commissioned by the AND Festival and set in Grizedale Forest, that takes visitors on a fascinating journey allowing them to fly above the forest canopy, come face-to-face with hi-definition critters and embody various animals as they traverse the landscape.

Alt-C – Designing for synergy between our ecosystems and network economics

Created by Michael Sedbon, Alt-C is an installation that uses electricity produced by plants to power a single board computer mining a cryptocurrency. The project questions our relationship to ecosystems in regards to networked technologies and abstraction problematics.

Art ― Environment ― Life: Ryuichi Sakamoto at YCAM

YCAM is wrapping their 10th Anniversary program by showing installations by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani at the centre.

/+

/++

Aireal – Interactive tactile experiences in free air by Disney Research

Aireal is a low cost, scalable haptic technology that delivers tactile sensations in mid air and enables users to feel virtual objects and experience dynamically varying textures.

One comment on “Botanicus Interacticus – Designing interactive plants at Disney Research”