Synplant

2022

Youyang Hu, Chiaochi Chou, Yasuaki Kakehi

plants, metal, computer, electronic device,
acrylic, spkear

Academic Publication:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3597622

Synplant is an installation consisting of multiple intelligent machine-hybrid plants. Through technical intervention to analyze biosignals, it can read the natural environment from the perspective of plants and translates their experiences into audiovisual expressions that can be experienced by humans. The work uses an artificial intelligence-based learning system to analyze the bioelectrical activity of plants in response to environmental stimuli in order to understand the state of plant perception of wind and rain.

Through the utilization of wind and rain as vehicles to bridge different hybrid sensing units, it can create an immersive audiovisual field that represents the trajectories of the invisible interaction of different elements in the natural environment. This work proceeded with a post-human perspective, combining the intelligent machine with the botanical perception viewpoint to extend our understanding of the natural environment.