Seedling

This built landscape envelops the viewer and calls into question the relationship between the work—a benevolent technological host—and the viewer—an input-seeking biological organism.
A pressure-sensitive platform enables Seedling’s soft, white reeds to move in a seemingly instinctual, organic fashion in response to the viewer’s presence. From the tops of the reeds hang forty-four, five-inch CRT monitors. Animations of simulated electro/chemical processes and microbial life, made by scanning and animating materials such as Play-Doh, shoe innersoles, and bubble gum, play over the CRTs. Each animation has its own distinct sound composition, which draws inspiration from sounds typically found near marshes and streams, but was created using samplers and tape loops.