{"id":2431,"date":"2021-02-20T01:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2021-02-20T01:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T06:53:46","slug":"infusing-art-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/2431\/infusing-art-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Infusing Art with Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Hylozoic Soil\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Na8AX-AXYLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hylozoic Soil<\/em> (1) is a responsive installation piece by Philip Beesley. The work consists of a large, transparent structure suspended from the ceiling with fern-like fronds that respond to human presence. The movement of the leaves circulates air through the space, turning the piece into both a visual and a tactile experience. Like much of Beesley&#8217;s art, <em>Hylozoic Soil<\/em> examines a space of living art that gives highly biomimetic qualities to environmental-scale works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the installation does change over time with regards to the undulations of the fronds, the basic structure of the piece never changes. In other words, the piece doesn&#8217;t grow or navigate around a space at all. An interesting direction to take this work would be to incorporate gripping mechanisms, such as those in vines, to enable the piece to slowly navigate around a space, potentially even expand or contract, over time. To fit with the already established aesthetic of Beesley&#8217;s work and to maximize ability to grip onto a scaffolding-like structure, these gripping mechanisms would necessarily be soft robotic systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One potential biomimetic technology would be robotic coiling mechanisms (2), similar to those in some climbing plants. These coiling tendrils could easily fit visually with the plant-like aesthetic of Beesley&#8217;s work, while also providing a method to enable gripping to a baseline structure. By engaging and disengaging these coils in some sort of pattern, it might be possible to bring an incremental location-based motion to this work. Responsiveness could be explored in new ways, and the fantastical characteristics of this work could be expanded in yet new ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Philip Beesley. <em>Hylozoic Soil<\/em>. <em>Mus\u00e9e Des Beaux-Arts<\/em>, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada. 2007. <a href=\"philipbeesleystudioinc.com\/sculptures\/0635hylozoic_soil\/\">url: philipbeesleystudioinc.com\/sculptures\/0635hylozoic_soil\/<\/a>.<\/li><li>Renato Vidoni, Tanja Mimmo, Camilla Pandolfi. &#8220;Tendril-Based Climbing Plants to Model, Simulate and Create Bio-Inspired Robotic Systems.&#8221; <em>Journal of Bionic Engineering<\/em>, volume 12, issue 2, pages 250-262. April 2015. <a href=\"10.1016\/S1672-6529(14)60117-7\">doi: 10.1016\/S1672-6529(14)60117-7<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hylozoic Soil (1) is a responsive installation piece by Philip Beesley. The work consists of a large, transparent structure suspended from the ceiling with fern-like fronds that respond to human presence. The movement of the leaves circulates air through the space, turning the piece into both a visual and a tactile experience. Like much of<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/2431\/infusing-art-with-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infusing Art with Technology<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-480\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}