The progress in natural sciences makes us realise that the structure of our reality is based on dynamic networks of data flows. From the nervous system to the World Wide Web, from river backwaters to social and economic phenomena: in every microsecond, countless interactions connect all levels of our networked world. This new dynamic model of reality forces us to redefine our cultural paradigms that designate our place and role in the Great Web of Being and determine our individual and collective behaviors and actions, and consequently the future of us and our planet.
RhiZone: [PapiLLa] belongs to the XR artwork series RhiZones by Joanna Hoffmann, inspired by symbiotic networks of the rhizosphere. It encompasses VR narrative, 3DS projection and AR application. Soundscape: Andre Bartetzki
RhiZone title: [PapiLLa] refers to biological spherical formations often associated with our senses – touch, taste or smell (fingerprints, taste warts etc.) as well as to root nodules – symbiotic organs between plant roots and bacteria (rhizobia). In both cases, they are centers of intensive information flow between the internal and external environment of the organism.
Here, papilla is a microcomponent of an imaginary omni-system that merges human and non-human agents. It stores, processes and transforms data, connecting various layers of my realm.
In RhiZone: [Papilla] the viewer is placed in the center of a spherical earth-like formation, intersected by communication lines, resembling hyphae of mycelium that decompose matter. The cracked, corroded earth hides the memory of our civilization whose data is processed in the tissues of the metabolizing world. Everything is decomposed and transformed, and this transformation gives rise to new configurations and endless possibilities.
AR app
The piece had its premiere at the Art & Science Node AR exhibition platform: Capture the Future(s) Our Bio-Tech Planet: The Routes to Roots Networks and Beyond at Plant Biology Europe Congress June 2021.
Augmented Species – Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies, organised by MoMAR; International AR Touring Exhibition Through Sculptural Gardens; Opening: September 10, 2021, 4 pm, MoMA Sculpture Garden
Presented at:
| public presentations/exhibitions The Forest becomes a Choir, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, June-August, 2023 Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges, Rijeka Croatia, October 2023 Metagenomes of Different Environments, Lublin Conference Center, Lublin, June 2023 Our Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants & Humans, Botanical Garden Rome, IT, October 2022 RhiZosphere: Organism, 10th anniversary of Polish Mycological Society, UAM University, Poznan, PL, September 2023 Our Bio-Tech Planet: Routes to Roots Networks & Beyond, Plant Biology Europe 2021, Turin, IT (RhiZone: [PapiLLa] vers1) ARS ELECTRONICA Hong Kong Garden, Artificial Intentionalities: Post-human humanities in the age of the art-subject (Art in a Cloud), Osage Gallery Hong Kong |
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