Course: Experimental Human Computer Interaction
Task: Explore a practice under human-computer interaction
Chosen Practice: Resurrecting the Sublime by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
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Installation at La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou. Resurrecting the Sublime: Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock (smell diffusion hood, lava boulder, documentary film), February 2019. |
"Resurrecting the Sublime" is an installation established in early 2019 by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and her team. The installation employed a range of applications; computer-aided-design, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to resurrect smells and hypothetical habitat of extinct flowers. She displayed her work using hanged cube that emits the scent and with a display screen to showcase the perceived habitat.
Goal
It was created with the intention of triggering a sense of loss as despite having the technology and material, we can never truly experience it organically.
Practices and Methods
"Resurrecting the Sublime" utilise synthetic biology to encode DNA sequences of extinct flowers, then inputting the information to an intelligent computer to generate the combination of smell molecule, and eventually adopting computer-aided-design to recreate the artificial habitat of which the plants reside.
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