Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Spore 1.1
A project that has always fascinated me was Spore 1.1 which is a rubber plant, bought from home depot, which through a series of mechanisms, wifi, and a little programming, waters itself accordingly to home depot's stock performance. http://www.swamp.nu/projects/spore1.html
I appreciate that the employs ongoing data from the performance of a corporation (an entity that has nearly the same legal rights as U.S. citizens) and can be seen as a social or politically charged statement. The life or death of a living organism soley based on a free market economy tracked through massive invisible machinations can be paralleled on many levels. And that Home Depot promises to replace a failed organism due to poor stock performance with an exact replacement organism somehow seems too apropos.
I would ideally like to engage in a project that is able to address more global kinds of issues like Spore 1.1 rather than to create a device specifically made just for changing visual affect, yet perhaps reaching a broader function than that reached in the Spore 1.1 project of just being a statement, albeit, still dealing in life and death.
I appreciate that the employs ongoing data from the performance of a corporation (an entity that has nearly the same legal rights as U.S. citizens) and can be seen as a social or politically charged statement. The life or death of a living organism soley based on a free market economy tracked through massive invisible machinations can be paralleled on many levels. And that Home Depot promises to replace a failed organism due to poor stock performance with an exact replacement organism somehow seems too apropos.
I would ideally like to engage in a project that is able to address more global kinds of issues like Spore 1.1 rather than to create a device specifically made just for changing visual affect, yet perhaps reaching a broader function than that reached in the Spore 1.1 project of just being a statement, albeit, still dealing in life and death.
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