Collaborative Presentation: LIVING COMPUTERS

For our presentation, Michele and I chose the artist Rafael Lozano Hemmer and collaborative artist Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer. We chose these artists because we felt that they both relate to each other in how the took computers and used them to create art that interacts with the viewer and makes them have human-like actions. We found certain pieces of their works that we felt have similarities with one another. For example how Lozano-Hemmer's Pulse Park, using the interacters heart rate, related with Mignonneau and Sommerer's Interactive Plant Growing, using the interaction of the viewers. Both of these works needed the interaction with the viewers in order to make their pieces come to life. And even though their works are heavily used with computers, both of these artists are still able to keep a natural and organic feel to them.

http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/