The technological herbarium
By: Gianna Maria Gatti ; edited, translated from the Italian, and with a preface by Alan N. Shapiro
Publisher: Avinus Verlag; Avinus-Verlag
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783869380124
Subjects: Agriculture in art; Technology in art
Work titles: Erbario tecnologico
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Nature, art, new technologies. Nature, man and art ; Nature and second nature ; New technologies and science in artistic creation ; Technologies of the living and nature; title: Real vegetables and new technologies. Piotr Kowalski's Dressage d'un cône (Erecting a cone) ; Nissim Merkado's Jardin bio-acoustique (Bio-acoustic garden) ; The technological ecosystems of Érik Samakh ; The bamboos ; Plants grow in the web : Telegarden and Teleporting an unknown state ; Telegarden by Ken Goldberg ; Teleporting an unknown state by Eduardo Kac ; Naturale che piove : fare il bello ed il cattivo tempo (It's raining, naturally : making good and bad weather) by Nicola Toffolini ; Il mondo ridotto a minimi termini (The world reduced to minimal terms) by Alessandro Quaranta; title: Artificial vegetables : electronic and digital. The gardens of Pietro Mussini and of Katsuhiro Yamaguchi ; Giardino Cablato (Cabled gardens) by Pietro Mussini ; The gardens of the future of Katsuhiro Yamaguchi ; Je sème à tout vent (Sow to the four winds) by Edmond Couchot, Michel Bret, Marie-Hélène Tramus ; From the forest to the shade of the tree : Tamás Waliczsk, Bill Viola and Alain Josseau ; The forest by Tamás Waliczky ; The tree of knowledge by Bill Viola ; Arbre (Tree) by Alain Josseau ; Osmose by Char Davies; title: Vegetables and technologies of the living. The trees of Piero Gilardi ; Interactive plant growing and Trans plant by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau ; Nerve garden by Bruce Damer ; The bamboos of Jean-Louis Boissier ; Genetically modified vegetables ; Considerations on transgenic and biotech art ; The hybrids of George Gessert ; Rearming the spineless opuntia by Amy Youngs ; Plant anima by Aniko Meszaros ; Natural Reality SuperWeed Kit 1.0 by Heath Bunting ; OneTrees by Natalie Jeremijenko.