May 24, 2005
Life Support Systems
Vanda Hybrid Orchids
Life Support Systems--by Mateusz Herczka--deals with the possibility of enabling life to continue after death in the form of information. Electronically recording all of a creature’s memories and reactions would theoretically make life extension in virtual space possible.
The installation collects data generated by the tiny shifts in electrical current produced by the metabolic processes of vanda hybrida orchids. Then, computers running artificial intelligence software reproduce these physical states, as a virtual model, which continues to generate similar signals long after the original orchids are gone. The flowers' language and behaviour model is stored in a hacked Microsoft Xbox, its future container.
"Besides turning a scientific experiment into an aesthetic construct, the work tangents questions of consciousness, longevity, and new lifeforms through computing." vanda_full_text.pdf [blogged by Regine on near near future]
Posted by jo at May 24, 2005 10:51 AM
