[ISEA2016] Paper: Laura Beloff & Jonas Jørgensen – The Condition Towards Hybrid Agency

Abstract (long paper)

This exposition paper presents the background for and central themes of The Condition (2015-2016), an artwork by the authors. The cultural and scientific values underlying research in the cloned Christmas trees that are part of the installation are discussed. So are historical microgravity studies on plants and recent insights of plant science into the sentient, agential and social aspects of plant life. The artwork is contextualized historically as a continuation of a decades long artistic interest in combining robots with plants. Through this, the hybrid agency inherent in its specific merger of cloned plant life, robotic technology and a self-organizing algorithm is articulated.

  • Laura Beloff Jonas Jørgensen,  IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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