Noor Stenfert Kroese & Amir Bastan. Photography (c) Bart Grietens
Prix Ars Electronica 2024: "ZOE” by Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan awarded the Honorary Mention
ZOE is a temporary co-existence between reishi mushrooms and a custom-made robotic system. Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan
explore the possibilities of internal communication between a robotic system and reishi with ZOE. Despite the seeming paradox
between nature and technology, an ecosystem in which they care for and affect each other through sensing technologies is created.
It proceeds to research the interaction and unknown communication within fungal mycelia networks.
ZOE uses sensors to collect data from the environment as well as the mycelium of the reishi. It uses this data to create the internal communication between the reishi and the robotic system. The reishi and their behavior define what the robotic system does and the robotic system influences the shape of the light-sensitive reishi mushrooms. Over time, this influence sculpts the shape of the fruiting bodies of the reishi as a reflection of their ecosystem. The data is used in the space to create a sensory experience to explore this unknown communication. Finally, the data carpets are created from the daily collected data from reishi in relation to their environment, to see if we can detect any correlation between them. These tactile data visualizations explore the outcome and the unknown communication going on in this temporary co-existence.
ZOE is the first step in ongoing Mycobotics research. This research focuses on the possibilities of biocomputing with fungi through robotics and other than human-computer interaction. We focus on technical and narrative aspects to create an environment for meaningful collaboration, using timelines, state machines, and behavioral trees. We explore the intricate connections between human and non-human entities and the role of data in shaping these interactions. We use industrial robots and their quality of repetition and precision as the interface to reconsider the dynamics between technology and nature, encompassing both human and non-human aspects.
Credits:
Noor Stenfert Kroese & Amir Bastan
https://www.stenfertkroese.com & www.amirbastan.com
Produced by Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam (ACT : Art, Climate & Transition) in coproduction with Creative Robotics – University of Arts Linz, KUKA, and Mushroom Research Center Austria.
ZOE is part of ACT: Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, pandemics, mass extinction and growing inequalities, we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.
More info: www.stenfertkroese.com/zoe
Congratulations!
ZOE uses sensors to collect data from the environment as well as the mycelium of the reishi. It uses this data to create the internal communication between the reishi and the robotic system. The reishi and their behavior define what the robotic system does and the robotic system influences the shape of the light-sensitive reishi mushrooms. Over time, this influence sculpts the shape of the fruiting bodies of the reishi as a reflection of their ecosystem. The data is used in the space to create a sensory experience to explore this unknown communication. Finally, the data carpets are created from the daily collected data from reishi in relation to their environment, to see if we can detect any correlation between them. These tactile data visualizations explore the outcome and the unknown communication going on in this temporary co-existence.
ZOE is the first step in ongoing Mycobotics research. This research focuses on the possibilities of biocomputing with fungi through robotics and other than human-computer interaction. We focus on technical and narrative aspects to create an environment for meaningful collaboration, using timelines, state machines, and behavioral trees. We explore the intricate connections between human and non-human entities and the role of data in shaping these interactions. We use industrial robots and their quality of repetition and precision as the interface to reconsider the dynamics between technology and nature, encompassing both human and non-human aspects.
Credits:
Noor Stenfert Kroese & Amir Bastan
https://www.stenfertkroese.com & www.amirbastan.com
Produced by Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam (ACT : Art, Climate & Transition) in coproduction with Creative Robotics – University of Arts Linz, KUKA, and Mushroom Research Center Austria.
ZOE is part of ACT: Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, pandemics, mass extinction and growing inequalities, we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.
More info: www.stenfertkroese.com/zoe
Congratulations!
Prix Ars Electronica 2024: "ZOE” by Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan awarded the Honorary Mention
June 27, 2024
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Linz
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