Dear Plant People:
Nina, Julian, Nikos.
Yes -- Nikos cites an excellent research strategy: prioritize research over tool making :) However, I believe the PLSS / SAF fund ran out already, so the only way would be if some students adopt this project as well as the strategy of buying a solution for data acquisition rather than making yet another one themselves.Maybe it'd be worth writing up a very small, informal experimental plan:
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That way, we can move on to the real fun and potentially fresh contribution, which is mapping and entanglement of human and plant expression!
Enthusiastically,
Xin Wei
On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Nikolaos Chandolias wrote:
Yes, I didn't mean to use it as it is though. Although it might be funny having a plant to tweet you "I am thirsty, come and water me" :), but I understand that is not in the purposes of the lab.My suggestion was mostly for having a system implemented that can give us all this kind of data, such as humidity, light and temperature and then use this data for non-human, vegetal centric implementation to the TML's theatrical scene/ environment. However, there might be different ways to do so than the system I aforementioned, but as I understand so far with our current Arduino system the information we are taking is relevant only to the plants soil humidity. It might be of our purposes to implement also other kinds of data that are relevant to the plants vitality.Cheers,NikosOn Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:Yes, thanks for that.However I think the TML could go a different route and NOT vector through human semiotics (obvious crutches like language, tweets, and "social media" -- hence topological media :)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 York for botanical references.)
Also at OCAD Toronto, Prof. in the DFI programKate 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)Xin Wei__________________________________________________________________________________Canada Research Chair • Associate Professor • Design and Computation Arts • Concordia UniversityDirector, Topological Media Lab (EV7.725) • topologicalmedialab.net/ • skype: shaxinwei •+1-__________________________________________________________________________________
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,NikosOn 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!This is not what I was thinking of :On a different note :Brian Eno, January 07003: Bell Studies for The Clock of The Long Now1st-14th January 07003, Hard Bells, Hillis Algorithm
Enjoy!Xin Wei__________________________________________________________________________________Canada Research Chair • Associate Professor • Design and Computation Arts • Concordia UniversityDirector, Topological Media Lab (EV7.725) • topologicalmedialab.net/ • skype: shaxinwei •+1-__________________________________________________________________________________