Cybernetic Gardens

by Donatien Aubert

2020

Cybernetic Gardens

by Donatien Aubert

2020

Digital art

Installation

Video art

Environment

Science and technology

Digital art

Installation

Video art

Environment

Science and technology

Technoscientific modernity has disrupted the relationship humans have with life and the environment in which they live. The Cybernetic Gardens installation provides an overview of these disruptions and highlights the consequences for the development of contemporary societies.

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

18 minute(s)

French, English

Update : 06/02/2023

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The project shows how our mental representations of living things have been transformed by the dissemination of digital technologies in the environment and how, in turn, these technologies play a part in reshaping it.

Cybernetic Gardens is centered on a CGI short film aiming to reframe these historical issues. It is accompanied by several modules highlighting the growing role of IT in environmental regulation and its imaginary: plant holding chrysalises, made of metal and plexiglass, emit sounds of nature disturbed, in the presence of visitors, by an electronic composition; a greenhouse shaped like a space capsule contains more vegetation; all in the presence of models of plants species (as 3D prints and computer rendered images) that have disappeared since the beginning of the industrial revolution.