Implant Matrix is an interactive geotextile that could be used for reinforcing landscapes and buildings of the future. The matrix is capable of mechanical empathy. A network of mechanisms reacts to human occupants as erotic prey. The structure responds to human presence with subtle grasping and sucking motions, ingesting organic materials and incorporating them into a new hybrid entity.
Implant Matrix is composed of interlinking filtering ‘pores’ within a lightweight structural system. Primitive interactive systems employ capacitance sensors, shape-memory alloy wire actuators and distributed microprocessors. The matrix is fabricated by laser cutting direct from digital models. Implant Matrix was installed at the InterAccess Media Arts Centre in Toronto.
"Before you go in, the whole piece will be quietly 'breathing', and parts close to you will start panting, feeding air to you, following your position."
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Le travail de Philip Beesley s'inscrit dans le courant "Responsive Architecture". Ses installations évoquent des biotopes technologiques, des organismes imprévisibles réagissant à notre présence. On se trouve immergé dans un autre espace-temps qui interroge le lien entre l'environnement et l'organisme. le rythme du mouvement est celui des temporalités biologique: respiration, palpitation, contraction...
Comme dans Lattice Archipelogics, l'individu dialogue avec un espace qui lui "répond" instantanément.
L'idée de "responsive environment" rejoint celle de Interactive Cities dans une volonté d'évolution et de mouvement variable.
animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p-NNDfoxUc
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