Spark presents Nature's Network: Integrating Biology and Circuitry
Introducing Spark, events to ignite curiosity and inspire conversation.
Join Spark as we kick off with a series of three events exploring the technology behind PlantWave, the device that turns biometric data into song.
Nature and technology intertwine into different sounds and songs through the use of PlantWave technology. What else can we learn through this connection? Can studying simple organisms help us solve the complex technical problems of the future?
Join us Wednesday, September 27 at 6:30pm in The Paseo for Nature's Networks: Integrating Biology and Circuitry. In conversation moderated by PlantWave's Joe Patitucci, expert panelist, Sarah Grant, a NYC and Berlin based media artist, professor, and founder of Radical Networks will explore how multifaceted collaborations between artists and scientists are discovering new ways of seeing intelligence, design, and information processing.
Joe Patitucci is an artist fostering connection to nature through sound, breath and technology. He's best known for his pioneering work in plant music, a practice of data sonification where electrical impedance within plants is translated into sound. Joe has been sharing this work through sonic art installations at museums, festivals and public spaces around the world since 2012. As CEO of Data Garden, Joe is working to build a future where humans will have a real-time soundtrack to their lives generated from wearable data that is responsive to mood, tailored to taste and optimized for any activity.
Sarah Grant is an American professor and media artist based in Berlin at the Weise7 studio.Her practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. Central to her work is the cultivation of Physarum polycephalum, or slime mold, as a living data network with which she explores the parallels between nature's designs and network infrastructure. She also organizes the Radical Networks conference in New York and Berlin, a community event and arts festival for social just activations, critical investigations, and creative experiments in telecommunications.
This program is brought to you by @seaportbos.
Introducing Spark, events to ignite curiosity and inspire conversation.
Join Spark as we kick off with a series of three events exploring the technology behind PlantWave, the device that turns biometric data into song.
Nature and technology intertwine into different sounds and songs through the use of PlantWave technology. What else can we learn through this connection? Can studying simple organisms help us solve the complex technical problems of the future?
Join us Wednesday, September 27 at 6:30pm in The Paseo for Nature's Networks: Integrating Biology and Circuitry. In conversation moderated by PlantWave's Joe Patitucci, expert panelist, Sarah Grant, a NYC and Berlin based media artist, professor, and founder of Radical Networks will explore how multifaceted collaborations between artists and scientists are discovering new ways of seeing intelligence, design, and information processing.
Joe Patitucci is an artist fostering connection to nature through sound, breath and technology. He's best known for his pioneering work in plant music, a practice of data sonification where electrical impedance within plants is translated into sound. Joe has been sharing this work through sonic art installations at museums, festivals and public spaces around the world since 2012. As CEO of Data Garden, Joe is working to build a future where humans will have a real-time soundtrack to their lives generated from wearable data that is responsive to mood, tailored to taste and optimized for any activity.
Sarah Grant is an American professor and media artist based in Berlin at the Weise7 studio.Her practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. Central to her work is the cultivation of Physarum polycephalum, or slime mold, as a living data network with which she explores the parallels between nature's designs and network infrastructure. She also organizes the Radical Networks conference in New York and Berlin, a community event and arts festival for social just activations, critical investigations, and creative experiments in telecommunications.
This program is brought to you by @seaportbos.