{"id":519238,"date":"2010-04-07T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dirt.asla.org\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2010-04-07T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:42:59","slug":"gilberto-esparza%e2%80%99s-plant-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519238","title":{"rendered":"Gilberto Esparza\u2019s Plant Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIconeye<\/a><\/em>\u00a0magazine wrote about\u00a0Mexican\u00a0artist Gilberto Esparza’s <\/a>plant robot, a roving art installation.\u00a0Called “Nomadic Plants,” the robot is part of an exhibition organized by LABoral Gallery in Asturias, Spain.\u00a0Iconeye<\/em> says the project is inspired by\u00a0”natural processes whereby plants adapt to hostile environments and colonise new territories.” The nomadic plant is autonomous, and leads an\u00a0”unthreatening existence,” living off industrial waste.<\/p>\n

Esparza told\u00a0Iconeye<\/em>:\u00a0”Nowadays robots are a waste of energy: they dance and they move all the time.” To make\u00a0his plant robot self-sufficient but also productive, he designed it so it runs on bacteria found in waste. “When these microorganisms need nourishment the machine seeks out dirty water, which is then decomposed to create energy; any surplus is used to emit a noise and sustain plants carried on its back. The machine and plants becomes co-dependent.”<\/p>\n

Iconeye<\/em> says Esparza has long explored\u00a0the relationship between organisms and systems. “In a previous project, Urban Parasites, creatures made from recycled electronic goods infested urban environments, feeding of a city\u2019s electricity and telephone wires.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The installation\u00a0is open from\u00a0March 25\u00a0to June 7\u00a0at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creaci\u00f3n Industrial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the article<\/a> and see more images.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Gilberto Esparza \/ Iconeye Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

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Iconeye\u00a0magazine wrote about\u00a0Mexican\u00a0artist Gilberto Esparza’s plant robot, a roving art installation.\u00a0Called “Nomadic Plants,” the robot is part of an exhibition organized by LABoral Gallery in Asturias, Spain.\u00a0Iconeye says the project is inspired by\u00a0”natural processes whereby plants adapt to hostile environments and colonise new territories.” The nomadic plant is autonomous, and leads an\u00a0”unthreatening existence,” living off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}