Epiphyte Chamber / Philip Beesley (CA)
Epiphyte Chamber features interactive lighting systems and kinetic mechanisms that use dense arrays of microprocessors and sensors. The work contemplates the ability of an environment to be near-living, to stimulate intimate evocations of compassion with viewers through artificial intelligence and mechanical empathy. Like any ecology and any material system, these environments are partial, reacting only to certain excitements and evincing awareness only of certain things. The viewer will become aware of subtle impacts: air, moving around the body, perhaps changes in surrounding magnetic fields that one disturbs as they pass.
credit: Philip Beesley
Epiphyte Chamber / Philip Beesley (CA)
Epiphyte Chamber features interactive lighting systems and kinetic mechanisms that use dense arrays of microprocessors and sensors. The work contemplates the ability of an environment to be near-living, to stimulate intimate evocations of compassion with viewers through artificial intelligence and mechanical empathy. Like any ecology and any material system, these environments are partial, reacting only to certain excitements and evincing awareness only of certain things. The viewer will become aware of subtle impacts: air, moving around the body, perhaps changes in surrounding magnetic fields that one disturbs as they pass.
credit: Philip Beesley