It’s a passively interactive art project, but more importantly, it’s a robot. Translator II: Grower senses the carbon dioxide level in the air via a small digital CO2 sensor, and gradually wheels itself around the room, graphing the CO2 levels on the wall in green ink. I guess as a robot it’s kind of boring—it just rolls around engaging in behavior one might smack a kid for. The art concept is pretty cool though, with passers-by helping to create the final “organic” product whether they realize it or not.
The artist, Sabrina Raaf, says, “My research as an artist focuses on making explicit the interdependent relationships of human to machine as vital entity to vital entity.” I hope the robots think we’re vital in the future.
The grass drawing robot [WeMakeMoneyNotArt]
