Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<div class="asset-header"><h2 class="asset-name"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/matsushita-in-j.php">Tele-gardening</a></h2> </div> <div class="asset-content"> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding-right: 10px;" valign="top" width="192"> <div class="metabody"> <div class="asset-meta"> <span class="byline"> By <span class="perma_date">Regine</span><br> on October 12, 2006 4:50 PM </span> <!--<span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/matsushita-in-j.php">Permalink</a> <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2006/10/matsushita-in-j.php#comments">Comments (2)</a>--> <!----> </div> <div class="entry-categories"> <div class="perma_sep">Categories:</div> <ul class="entry-categories-list"> <div class="perma_categories"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/green/">green</a></div> <div class="perma_categories"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/installation/">installation</a></div> <div class="perma_categories"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/life_online/">life online</a></div> </ul></div> <div class="perma_sep">Somehow related:</div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/vastal-vivoarts-school-for-tra.php"> Day 1 at the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics: Seed broadcasting workshop </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-first-panel-of-positions.php"> Positions in Flux - Panel 1: Art goes politics - Wafaa Bilal </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-first-panel-of-positions-1.php"> Positions in Flux - Panel 1: Art goes politics - Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/05/the-netherlands-media-art-inst.php"> Positions in flux: On the changing role of the artist and institution in the networked society (intro) </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/04/gakona.php"> GAKONA at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/04/-your-project-refarm.php"> Interactivos? re:farm the city </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/04/-tag-ties-and-affective.php"> Tag ties &amp; affective spies, a critical approach on the social media of our times </a></div> <div class="perma_related"><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/04/postopolis-day-5.php"> Postopolis Day 5 </a></div> </div></td> <td valign="top"> <div class="asset-body"> <p><img alt="0tegradrb.jpg" src="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/0tegradrb.jpg" align="left" height="202" width="280">Matsushita in Japan will release in December Aiterrarium, an indoor gardening system whose lighting, temperature and water supply can be remotely monitored and controlled via the Internet. (via <a href="http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/10/aiterrarium-remote-control-gardening/">pink tentacle</a>.)</p> <p><a href="http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/index-flash.html">Ken Goldberg</a> and Joseph Santarromana were already doing that in 1995! <a href="http://www.usc.edu/dept/garden/">Telegarden</a> allowed web users to control a robotic arm in order to observe and tend the garden filled with living plants. During nine years, telegardeners from all over the world could plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the movements of an industrial robot arm.</p> <p>More devious: <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/003853.php">Spore 1.1</a>, by <a href="http://www.swamp.nu/menu/menu/easterly_bio.html">Douglas Easterly</a>. The artist bought a rubber tree plant at Home Depot and included it in an installation connected to the Internet. The system periodically checks the value of Home Depot stock over the internet, and activates a watering system: if share values are up the plant gets watered. </p> <p>Home Depot guarantees the well being of the plant for one year so if the plant dies due to either falling or rising share values it has to be replaced by the multinational!</p> <p><img alt="0spore34.jpg" src="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/0spore34.jpg" height="190" width="320"></p> <p>Related: <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/007249.php">Growable Media</a> controls the supply of water and light and thus the growth of a plant according to how often you meet a friend: if you see him/her often, corresponding plants will grow up well. But if you neglect that person, corresponding plants will wither to notify you that you're forgetting him/her.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>