{"id":211599,"date":"2022-11-11T02:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/?p=211599"},"modified":"2022-11-11T02:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:18:51","slug":"the-artist-david-bowen-gave-a-brain-to-a-plant-and-then-armed-it-with-a-machete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adfwebmagazine.jp\/en\/art\/the-artist-david-bowen-gave-a-brain-to-a-plant-and-then-armed-it-with-a-machete\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ARTIST DAVID BOWEN GAVE A BRAIN TO A PLANT AND THEN ARMED IT WITH A MACHETE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The devices I construct create a dissonance that leads to an incalculable changeable situation resulting in unpredictable outcomes.<\/p>\r\n

David Bowen<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Harmless, humble, and ornamental: a philodendron, the common houseplant, has become a viral phenomenon on the web, this October.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The footages picture the small plant randomly waving around a machete by using a jointed robotic arm.<\/p>\r\n

Am I talking about a philodendron as if it was a being in the fullness of its rational faculties moving around a huge knife?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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plant machete by David Bowen, 2022<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n

This is the spiky point that David Bowen, the artist behind the artwork called plant machete, wants us to land on: a question.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cEssentially the plant is the brain of the robot controlling the machete determining how it swings, jabs, slices and interacts in space\u201d states Bowen, who used EEG biosensors in plant machete<\/i> to connect the robotic arm to the \u201cwill\u201d of the plant, just involving natural electric stimulus coming from the leaves and the soil.<\/p>\r\n