Catherine Mason's regular "Computer Image of the Month" feature in the BCS e-newsletter for August shows the work of Scenocosme that is currently on show at Waterman's Gallery in West London until 30 September.
http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/41054
Catherine Mason is the author of A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80, published in 2008 and a member of the management committee of the CAS.
http://www.catherinemason.co.uk/
Scenocosme: Alsos* & Akousmaflore
Watermans Gallery, Brentford, West London
6 July - 30 September 2011
http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/alsosstar--akousmaflore.aspx
Scenocosme create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. The artists use digital technologies to establish a relationship between plants and sound and enable audience gestures and movements to generate sound effects and changes in their interactive environments resulting in a random musical universe.
Alsos* is an immersive little forest installation where the audience is guided by a luminous stony path penetrating into a space plunged into darkness. Visitors can discover and explore this fantastic forest by pointing torches onto the branches, the plants and flowers. At the heart of the installation lies an extraordinary vegetation of luminescent flowers.
Akousmaflore is a small interactive garden composed of living musical plants which react to human gestures and light contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or heat by producing a specific sound. The plant language occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrical aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience pass closely or lightly stroke them. A plant concert is created.
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Paul Brown - based in OZ February to August 2011
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Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University
http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php
Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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