Digiscape - Botanical Eden
- 2023
Project Type | Installation
Client | Self-Initiated
Credits:
Interactive Visual Design & Programming | Ke Jyun Wu
Fiber Art Design | V&J Studio
Installation Design | Ta Chung Design
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動力博士藝術有限公司
Photographer | YHLAA
The Convolution | Triodust
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This one came from a plant wall.
I walk past one almost every day. Living walls — moss, ferns, all that greenery stuck to the side of a building. I've always liked them. One day I just started wondering: what would that look like in a digital space? Not a copy. Not a simulation. Something with its own logic.
Botanical Eden is an installation where a real terrarium sits inside the space alongside digital flora growing on screens. The two exist together. You see actual moss and soil, and right next to it, generative plants that bloom and shift in real time.
Working with fiber artist V&J Studio, we created hand-made plants, physical, tactile objects that sit alongside the digital flora on screen. Installation artist Ta Chung Liu designed a mechanical system that lets the physical plants actually move when visitors interact with the digital imagery. Touch the screen, and the real plants respond.
What if a plant wall existed in two dimensions at once, physical and digital, side by side?
This was the first time I brought real, living material into a Digiscape work. Before this, everything was purely digital. But it turns out the digital doesn't feel as alive unless there's something actually alive next to it. The contrast makes both sides sharper.
The photos on this page was taken during the display of the artwork at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Group's 2023 Digital Art Exhibition 'Love is Love’.
《 Love is Love 》數位藝術展
▧ 策展統籌｜Queena Lin
▧ 專案顧問｜Chad Liu
▧ 展場執行｜周煥森、林靖淳、丘仁先、李季恩、黃皇維、洪懷遠、曹佳欣
▧ 電視合作夥伴｜Samsung Neo QLED 8K
This artwork was exhibited in the exhibitions below.
2024 | Blurred Lines, Load Gallery, Barcelona
2023 | Love is Love, SKM Diamond Tower, Taipei
