Laboratory of loving for a migratory plant 

Ars Electronica 2020. The Wild State. Austria.

Laboratory of loving for a migratory plant is an interactive installation art between machine and natural object. The piece consist of a robotic female hand gesticulated by a stepper motor and a connecting rod system which allows that the machine simulates the act of caress on a plant. The plant, in this case, a Sábila or Aloe Vera of african an Central American origin, captivate the presence of the hand upon its bash, through the capacitive and proximity sensors. The obtained data is accused transforming a generative drawing, which changes according to the distance and the robotic hand touch. The piece keeps in silence and immovable, being activated for some minutes by the spectator through a presence sensor. 

With this work, seeks to reflect about the concept of plants migration, associated to the human being influence, which takes them to undertake this travel among continents, simulating through a small laboratory the search of reconnection, in a poetic and metaphorical form, with the "genetic memory" of the plant, through a caress.