Hi Marc, Sorry I might have not explained myself well. In fact the project being presented at Space as the result of the Permaculture Residency was The Light Plants. I still had trouble understanding the connections of the project with Permacultures. In fact it didn't seem to be a strong link. Simon connected his work with permacultures referring to Open Source and to the design of installations/pieces that are systems that self-operate.
I said about the Sound Lathe because before presenting the Light Plants Simon presented most of his previous work. http://www.simonblackmore.net/ "Blackmore has worked on a project exploring our relationships to passive data and the relationship of ‘data forms’ to organic shapes. During his time at SPACE Blackmore has developed a drawing device from an open source rapid prototyping machine to convert electro-magnetic activity (such as electro-magnetic frequencies as used by mobile phones) into beautiful animated drawings." You can see a reference to permacultures in the fact that electromagnetic pollution if you want is being turned into light plants... But to be completely fair.. this light plants are again more pollution themselves.. So it's more allegorical that actually truly environmentally oriented. As we were discussing before there seems to be a big tendency to deal with Environment as a theme rather designing projects that make a change. But then I guess art doesn't always have to be so goal oriented. What do you think? -- Olga http://www.ungravitational.net http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
