I have been fortunate to be involved with the Topological Media Lab at Concordia for the last few years. TML is collectively responsible for a variety of projects and investigations under the direction of Sha Xin Wei, PhD. Working within this atmosphere of experimental interactivity across media and milieus, I have installed fibre- and plant-based elements into media-augmented environments.
The most public of these was the Remedios' Terrarium exhibition in the FoFA Gallery in 2008, a collaboration between members of TML and Patrick Harrop's group of architecture grad students from the University of Manitoba. As the description would imply, there were many elements to this exhibition; I have included only the plant systems, for which I was directly responsible.
The first photo shows the cells housing aquatic plants as living elements of a media-rich responsive environment of sound, light, images and other frequencies in a zone of resonsive flux and feedback. The second photo shows the front window in which a plasma screen displaying a live feed of the goings on in the gallery was overtaken by vines during the course of the exhibition.