Botanicalls, yet another anthropocentric conceit

Yes, thanks for that.

Also at OCAD Toronto, Prof.  in the DFI program
Kate Hartman, co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help  .

Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and the Lilypad XBee, a sewable radio transceiver that enables your clothing to communicate. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured by the New York Times, BBC, CBC, and NPR. Hartman recently moved to Toronto to join the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University where she is the Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology.

Kate is was a nice person in the PLSS network.  She   came to visit TML a couple of years ago (or so)

HOWEVER, I think the TML could go a different route and NOT vector through human semiotics (obvious crutches like language, tweets, and "social media") ... That's why we're called the topological media lab :)

Shall someone talk with Elio as a follow-on to Elysha's initiative, to look for non-human, vegetal-centric signal analysis.  (Also email Prof. Natasha Meyers, at York University for botanical references.)

On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Nikolaos Chandolias wrote:

Hello everybody,
A friend of mine today forwarded me a really interesting system of Hans Crijns. He developed GrowGuard - a wireless monitoring system for plants - because he grew tired of not knowing why his plants were withering away. GrowGuard is a networked system made to tweet or text you about your plants’ desires for humidity, light, and temperature.
I think that we can might  use this kind of system in parallel to the existing one and get all this other information that might be proved valuable!
Regards,
Nikos

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding sloooowwwwww plant changes to sound  Adrian sent me a paper to review last year about mapping plant data to something that dancers could work with.  I'd like to track that down!

On a different note :

Brian Eno, January 07003: Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now
1st-14th January 07003, Hard Bells, Hillis Algorithm

Enjoy!
Xin Wei