The group exhibition “Roots and Wires” invitations you to get to know vegetation in a approach we’ve got by no means identified them earlier than | Tradition

The Roots and Wires exhibition presents 5 experimental artworks that playfully bridge the hole between the worlds of people and vegetation. What if we may decipher the key conversations between vegetation and fungi? What occurs when vegetation talk over a distance, linked by the Web? What if we constructed machines whose sole objective was to play with vegetation?

“Resulting from our restricted sensory notion, we’ve got to depend on technological units which are capable of adapt to the slower time scale of the plant, sense the indicators it sends, and thus mediate between man and plant. Artists because the twentieth century. within the Nineteen Seventies experimented with combining know-how and vegetation, creating new, hybrid types of intelligence. Vegetation are thought of pure sensors because of their means to detect modifications within the surroundings. Typically they’re even known as “analog electrical computer systems” and will be in comparison with extremely environment friendly computing machines. Vegetation are capable of sense altering environmental circumstances and react rapidly by sending chemical and electrical indicators, in addition to transmit info over lengthy distances,” says Okay. Jankovska.

The artists of the “Roots and Wires” exhibition use applied sciences that permit us to get to know vegetation in a approach that our senses can not. Lingua Planta by Dutch artist Merle Bergers interprets the complicated molecular language of vegetation into human scents. These scents are associated to a few totally different communication indicators despatched by vegetation – attraction, repulsion and protection. Mindaugas Gapšević’s work “Mycorrhizal networks, or how I break into plant conversations” reveals the symbiotic relationship between vegetation and soil fungi utilizing an digital gadget that converts chemical indicators from vegetation into digital information, modifications them, and sends them once more. The work of the Swedish-Norwegian inventive and musical duo Lerin/Hystad “Digital Flora” presents ambient digital music compositions from the bioelectrical indicators of vegetation and thus permits the inner rhythms of vegetation to be remodeled into audible melodies.

The offered works additionally elevate the query of utilizing plant intelligence for synthetic intelligence studying. At a time following we are attempting to duplicate human-level intelligence in a synthetic one, the query is whether or not we may use the collective decision-making, information-processing and resource-allocation strategies of vegetation (for instance, the symbiotic relationship between fungi and vegetation) to “feed” data-hungry algorithms. Author James Bridle asks what a synthetic intelligence modeled following a forest would seem like.

Spanish artist Maria Castellana’s work “Different Intelligences” is a community of vegetation linked by the Web. It’s analogous to the community of mushroom roots and mycelium in forests, however made up of knowledge, algorithms and controls. This work consists of 25 vegetation situated in several elements of the world, and the algorithm permits for distant communication between them, and teaches the vegetation to acknowledge and reply to totally different stimuli. PL’AI by Slovenian artist Špela Petrič is a synthetic intelligence robotic designed to play with cucumber shoots. PL’AI affords a state of affairs wherein we will start to determine with vegetation as autonomous actors who, like us, attempt to perceive and work together with their surroundings.

The exhibition “Roots and Wires” invitations you to get to know a world the place roots and wires intertwine, the place intelligence emerges from the connection of organic and technological techniques. It’s no coincidence that this exhibition is organized in cooperation with the ūmėdė.lt competition, which this 12 months will likely be held within the PaPats (DIY) camp format in the beginning of August. The camp will likely be rooted, tangled and disconnected (off-grid) from each electrical energy and social networks. Curators, researchers and artists gathered for 4 days in a geomorphological reserve and can attempt other ways of making and sharing media artwork with out the primary aspect that prompts it – electrical energy. On the closing night of the “Roots and Wires” exhibition on August 8. The outcomes of the camp will likely be offered performatively to the general public viewers within the “Atletika” gallery in Vilnius.

The exhibition is organized by the Lithuanian Union of Interdisciplinary Artwork Creators (LTMKS). The actions of LTMKS are financed by the Lithuanian Council of Tradition and Vilnius Metropolis Municipality. The exhibition is supported partially by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Swedish Arts Grants Committee.