1. Artistic Research on
Human Plant Interfaces
Florian Weil – WCOMTC : Synthetic Metamorphosis – Berlin -28.10.2013

2. Home and
apprenticeship
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfaobam/8172296082/

3. Bachelor
Computer Science in Media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orangebrompton/4048948543/

4. R&D Prototype: Radio der Zukunft

5. Web-App Development

6. Edutainment Games

7. Ars Electronica Festival
Master Programm Interface Culture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/3889394794/

8. Sense Ware Lecture by Hideakie Ogawa
Japanese approach of Experience Design
• Art in daily life
– Practice, Entertaining, Beauty
• Mitate
– Flexible Translation in „Things“
– Space of imagination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shok/4951595824/

9. Crashby Dirk Skreber, Saatchi Gallery – London
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54238124@N00/5998203790/

10. Generative Art
by Mark Knol (www.stroep.nl)

13. Long Time Exposure Photos of Urban Landscapes
by Céline Ramoni

14. Dynamics of Static Light

16. Season Patterns

23. Research on Plants for Designers
• Well-being
– Rehabilitation, Relaxing, Beauty, etc.
• Gardening as an connection to…
– People, Locations, etc.
• Essential infrastructure for surviving
– Food, Medicine, Protection, etc.
• Main research source:
– People Plant Relationship
– Interaction by Design

24. Travelling Plants

25. Dream of Flying
by Chiara Esposito
Ars Electronica Festival, 2013 – USE AT YOUR OWN RISK

27. Plant Drone by Stephen Verstraete

28. Prototype for a New BioMachine
by Ivan Henriques

29. JUREMA ACTION PLANT
by Ivan Henriques
Plants & Machines: http://ivanhenriques.com/re-search/naturetechnology/

30. Hello BioSensing & Biofeedback
For Human Computer Interaction
• Touch Interaction
• Gestural Interaction
Musical Interfaces
Environmental Design and
Installations

31. Kraft Test Drummie and Robert Plant
by Cristian Martínez

32. From the hills tribute to John Cage
by Cristian Martínez

33. Botanicus Interacticus:
by Disney Research Lab

34. Akousmaflore
by scenocosme

35. Pulsu(m) Plantae
by Leslie Garcia

36. Extending Plants
Biochemistry
Biotechnology
Bioinformatics and Genome Research
Bioart

37. The Cactus Project
by Laura Cinti

38. Let Plants glow!
Plant glows when touched
by Janet Braam
Glowing Plant (on Kickstarter)
by Antony Evans and others

39. Reflections
• Research on Plants as an Input Channel
is pretty well researched
• Use of Biotechnology
– Controversy (see discussion about Glowing Plant)
– Complicated topics
– Special Infrastructure needed

40. (Bio)ethics
• Experiments with living organisms are ok?
• Is a plant an automat?
• Have plants a brain and do they feel pain?
• Influences in our ecosystem?

41. Back to the Basics!!
• Focusing on the output Channel
• Focusing on Environmental Design
• Focusing on Human – Human
Interaction

42. By Hill Hiroki Kobayashi at Alt.CHI‘09

43. Dead Drops
by Aram Bartholl

50. Output
feedback-channel

51. A leaf as a speaker
an experiment during a workshop by Hannah Perner-Wilson
(Kobakant)

52. A leaf as a speaker
with conductive ink

53. Proto Pot
by Kent Wilson
Motor for kinetic output

54. Plant(s) for visual feedback
b) Idea of Growable Media Design
by Satoshi Kuribayashi, Akira Wakita
Integrating plants and digital media for
Information Visualization
a) Projection Mapping

55. CAMBODIAN TREES
by Clement Briend

56. Spacemakers
by Craig Walsh

57. Lit Tree
by Kimchi and Chips

58. Growable Media Design
by Satoshi Kuribayashi and Akira Wakita
Monitoring
• Light
• Temperature
• Soil (moisture and PH)
• Plant size / health
Interventions
• Light
• Water / Nutrients
• Fertilizer
• Poison / weed killer

59. Plant(s) for visual feedback
Intervene the plant lifecycle

60. Dialog
by Terike Haapoja

61. Garden of Eden
by Thorsten Kiesl, Harald Moser, Timm-Oliver Wilks

62. Hydroponical Sculptures
by Phill Ross

63. PlantDisplay:
Turning houseplants into ambient display
by Satoshi Kuribayashi and Akira Wakita

64. Anatomy of a Landscape
by Terike Haapoja

65. Ongoing Projects
Modular Gardening Framework
Layer Design of the Framework
• Monitoring
• Communication (Internet of Things)
• Nutrient delivery system
• Planned projects: Charisma and Subbotnik Garden

66. Thank you very much!
Questions?
More information
www.derhess.de

67. Links and References
• http://kalw.org/post/biohacking-project-
glowing-controversy
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/75
1069.stm
• http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3857