On vegetal life and vegetal experience.
History:
- Growing food for TML associates during the 2011-12 fall/winter season
- Building a RepRap Mendel 3D printer
- Building an automatic watering system for the Topological Media Lab's garden
- 2010 Reading group: Spinoza, Bateson, Guattari, Stengers, Simondon (Laura Boyd-Clowes, Adrian Freed, et al)
- 2010-2012 PLSS (Morgan Sutherland, Laura Boyd Clowes et al): is an interdisciplinary collaboration between undergraduates, members of the Topological Media Lab, and various colleagues abroad. Broadly, we are turning a critical eye to the practice of urban gardening by producing our own technically-assisted urban garden experiments inside the EV building at Concordia. The project has diverse goals:
- experimenting with human-plant ecologies,
- designing technical systems for sensing plant health and delivering sustenance (water, light, nutrients),
- critically inquiring into hard questions of environmental ethics,
- working to create a living human/non-human community in the EV building,
- all the while trying to take a thoroughly Guattarian approach, building the system as a laboratory for the production of new subjectivites, as a machinic assemblage with ethico-aesthetic impact.
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- Final TML Seminar 2013-14 Michael Marder, Goethe
- PLSS renamed vegetal
- 2014: Serra Oana Suteu Khintirian, Ginette Laurin, Sha Xin Wei, with media artists Todd Ingalls, Julian Stein, (prototype sessions w Evan Montpellier) performance + responsive environment
For directed questions, feel free to contact shaxinwei@gmail.com