Second Nature, 2024
5 minutes, multi-channel video installation, plants, soil
Sound: Philippe Lambert
5 minutes, multi-channel video installation, plants, soil
Sound: Philippe Lambert
Second Nature examines the increasingly ambiguous boundary
between technological and natural phenomena. Glowing glass-like tubes
weave through the scene as conduits of sustenance, creating a
technological photosynthesis where digital networks nourish organic
forms and vice versa. These translucent pathways ask: what if plants
evolved to metabolize not sunlight, but data streams and electronic
currents?
This speculative ecosystem suggests that as we move further into an era of artificial representation, the distinction between original and simulation becomes irrelevant. Here, flora thrives on algorithmic processes as readily as chlorophyll—a hybrid metabolism where technology doesn't replace nature, but becomes it, as vital to growth as soil and water.
This speculative ecosystem suggests that as we move further into an era of artificial representation, the distinction between original and simulation becomes irrelevant. Here, flora thrives on algorithmic processes as readily as chlorophyll—a hybrid metabolism where technology doesn't replace nature, but becomes it, as vital to growth as soil and water.
