COMMUNICATION MAN / NATURE – COLLABORATIVE DEVICE – VOCAL SYNTHESIS
Talk To Me is an artistic inquiry into human and plant communication, exploring the relationships between nature and people, biology and technology, biological and social processes in particular. There are scientific hypotheses that communicating with plants makes them grow better. People were “talking” to the bean plants willingly – altogether 13 183 messages were received from visitors in the two-year period (2011–2012) of the Talk to Me project during which the installations were exhibited in five different locations with an online interface in 3 different languages (English, German and Latvian). At the end of project, the bean plants did grow well and even blossomed.
Artists
Rasa Smite et Raitis Smits, visual artists
Associated artist
RIXC Center for New Media Culture
Project Partners
Martins Ratniks, design graphic
Davis Bojars, programmation
+ FORUM
⇒ Come and meet Rasa Smite, artist and co-founder of RIXC, Center for Art and Science à Riga (Lettonie) in the conference Les low-tech comme sources de création — Thursday 08 / 3.30
International Franco / Latvian partnership
As part of their international activities, Atelier Arts Sciences has established links with RIXC, a centre for new media culture and home to a group of artists pioneering art, science and technology projects in Riga Latvia. RIXC presents two of their leading projects tackling the issue of climate change.
