Mixing realities with plants & gardens
Background survey of plants and gardens featuring online & in mixed reality contexts…
Games
- PixelJunk Eden: “The player controls a “Grimp”, a small creature that maneuvers itself by jumping from and attaching itself to plant-like structures.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PixelJunk_Eden
- Spore: creating your own universe: “Spore is your own personal universe. You can create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilisations, sculpt worlds, and explore the cosmos. Spore is made up of five games, each corresponding to a stage of evolution: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilisation, and Space. Each stage presents different challenges and goals.” http://eu.spore.com/home.cfm?lang=en
- Onehundreddogs: Not really a game with plants, but a game which you can play with non-human players: http://onehundreddogs.com/
Social networking
- The Garden Network: http://www.garden-network.co.uk/
- Urban Permaculture Guild: “ Urban Permaculture Guild educates and inspires communities and individuals to creatively transform how they live and the urban places where they live. We facilitate artistic and ecologically-oriented placemaking and educational projects that honor the interconnection of human communities and the natural wor” http://www.urbanpermacultureguild.org/
* Folia: Organise, track and share your gardening adventures: http://myfolia.com/
- gardening online from the bbc: “create a virtual profile of your garden”: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/calendar/
(Media) Artworks
- Silent Dialogues exhibition: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2007/SilentDialogue/index.html
- Tafkav: A technoetic artwork: http://tafkav.blogspot.com/
- Intersection: http://www.elkabong.com/intersection00/davidrobert.htm
- making art with living systems > http://music.columbia.edu/organism/
- radiographs of plants/flowers > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~agrxray/gallery.html
- sLowlife exhibition: http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu:16080/usbg/
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