A field of robotic plants is positioned in the gallery space. Inspired by natural plant behavior, the large-scale shoots slowly move in response to the changing light. Tropism - plants’ motion in response to stimuli - is expressed by the carbon-fiber mechanical shoots as they follow the artificial magenta sunrises and sunsets at the gallery space.
Installation
Technique: Electronics, mechanics, software, carbon fibers, light
Installation size: 13\13 meter, individual sculpture size: 25/25/300 cm
Tropism was commissioned by the Genia Schreiber Tel Aviv University Art Gallery. European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (GrowBot), and The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Science, Tel Aviv University supported the work.
Tropism is the first collaboration between Liat Segal and Yasmine Meroz, followed by Impossible Object. The two documented their art-science partnership in a paper published in Quantitative Plant Biology.