 Gardening once was one of art forms of Zen principal of Buddhism to emphasize the intentional blurring of the distinction between man-made and natural material. The idea is adopted to explain an alternative view of network that represents the interconnection between real and cyber space. Few people would doubt that the Internet is an integral part of our life now through which a new cultural environment was created - alongside our natural and built environment. The late Austrian artist/architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser often talked about human reconciliation with nature and insisted that people should be more creative and responsible about their living environment, saying that "If man walks in nature's midst, then he is nature's guest and must learn to behave as a well-brought-up guest." Here I would like to question about our manners as "guests" (as well as owners) of the new environment, 'the Internet'.
< GORI.Node Garden at Ars Electronica 2005
In GORI.Node Garden, networking is 'gardening' where online users are described as 'gardeners'. Some metaphors of nature represent 'flow' of data; Mobile phone number or online instant messenger ID is 'a seed', identifying each plant with seeds is 'to plant' and pushing data into the garden from database is 'watering'.
GORI.Node Garden is an art installation as a network garden in which GORIs are growing. As a physical and ambient data visualization, the garden has been presented to explore the visualization of various kinds of network data, e.g. mobile phone data, SMS, online instant messenger chats.
When the garden is fed
by data, each plant vibrates, similar to how plants move when breeze blows on
them. GORI is a network media plant that is connected to the Internet and nourished by network data as they vibrate, blink or grow. The plant has a long, thin acrylic stem and a round, flat metal blossom on top of it. Its root has a mechanical structure with a small circuit board that controls the GORI behavior. GORI has been developed as a series of art installations since 2004. The term 'GORI' generally means 'to link' and 'open hook' in Korean and it is often used to refer to the 'fastening' and 'loosening' of human relationsp.   A single GORI at ACM 2006, US Technical Specialists and Collaborators: Erik Kearney and Allan Au Acknowledgements: Karel Dudesek, Ravensbourne College, UK and Kiberpipa. |
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