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Masaki Fujihata >
»Orchisoid«, 2001
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robotic installation
Clara Podlessnig 04-07-2016
Orchisoid was made in 2001 in collaboration with Yuji Dougane, an oceanographer, horticulturist, and chairman of the Plantron project. Orchisoid is a compound term, made from the words orchid and -oid (as in humanoid). As humanoid expresses something human-like, Orchisoid indicates something orchid-like. The Orchisoid robot considers both the development of robotic technology and the evolution of orchids. By providing the orchid with a means of locomotion, it gives the plant a new natural function. The project's aim is to find solutions for artificial spaces of the future. Orchid genes have the longest history of all plants. Orchisoid came from the idea of meme, the term created by Richard Dawkins indicating cultural genes. Fujihata describes it as following: If we deduce from here the idea that a robot is one type of meme that was made by humans, this leads us to a new, tremendously interesting hypothesis. Aren't memes using us humans to build new vehicles for them?
(source: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/10/artwork.php?artwork=60)
Clara Podlessnig: Orchisoid, 04-07-2016, in: Archive of Digital Art Orchisoid was made in 2001 in collaboration with Yuji Dougane, an oceanographer, horticulturist, and chairman of the Plantron project. Orchisoid is a compound term, made from the words orchid and -oid (as in humanoid). As humanoid expresses something human-like, Orchisoid indicates something orchid-like. The Orchisoid robot considers both the development of robotic technology and the evolution of orchids. By providing the orchid with a means of locomotion, it gives the plant a new natural function. The project's aim is to find solutions for artificial spaces of the future. Orchid genes have the longest history of all plants. Orchisoid came from the idea of meme, the term created by Richard Dawkins indicating cultural genes. Fujihata describes it as following: If we deduce from here the idea that a robot is one type of meme that was made by humans, this leads us to a new, tremendously interesting hypothesis. Aren't memes using us humans to build new vehicles for them?
(source: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/10/artwork.php?artwork=60)
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