In love with the world – Anicka Yi @ Tate Modern Turbine Hall
At the start of the project Yi asked herself what a ‘natural history of machines’ could look and feel like. She imagined machines evolving to become living creatures. Yi calls these machines aerobes and based their shapes on ocean life forms and mushrooms. The hairy bulbous aerobes are planulae. The aerobes with tentacles are xenojellies ) xeons is Greek for foreigner of stranger) Combining forms of aquatic and terrestrial life, Yi’s aerobes signal new possibilities of hybrid machines species . The earobes’ individual and group behaviours develop over time, influenced by elements in the eco system. Like a bee’s dance or an ant’s scent trail, the aerobes communicate with each other in ways we cannot understand. By merging technology and biology, Yi asks if machines could evolve as independent forms of life ( edit from Tate exhibit accompanying texts )
In love with the world – Anicka Yi @ Tate Modern Turbine Hall
At the start of the project Yi asked herself what a ‘natural history of machines’ could look and feel like. She imagined machines evolving to become living creatures. Yi calls these machines aerobes and based their shapes on ocean life forms and mushrooms. The hairy bulbous aerobes are planulae. The aerobes with tentacles are xenojellies ) xeons is Greek for foreigner of stranger) Combining forms of aquatic and terrestrial life, Yi’s aerobes signal new possibilities of hybrid machines species . The earobes’ individual and group behaviours develop over time, influenced by elements in the eco system. Like a bee’s dance or an ant’s scent trail, the aerobes communicate with each other in ways we cannot understand. By merging technology and biology, Yi asks if machines could evolve as independent forms of life ( edit from Tate exhibit accompanying texts )