NeoNature is a project produced by professor Jaimes Mayhew‘s Introduction to New Media course. Students produced digital conceptual works that were made accessible via QR code images posted throughout the Green Studio. Visitors could augment their experience of the physical site by scanning the codes with their phones and accessing student projects as digital overlays on the site.
Exhibition site: www.neonaturegmu.wordpress.com
Exhibition Statement
The projects presented before you are designed to allow humanity to interact and understand the non-human. In this instance it is nature, particularly the eco-art lab on campus. Each student explored the eco-art lab and all it’s plant life, contemplating the possibilities of communication between nature and humanity. Then started brainstorming ways in which they could implement their ideas, producing a wide and vastly different variety of possible inventions. The goal of which was to bring digital technology into a natural environment creating this interesting juxtaposition that could be interpreted as a commentary of the dynamic relationship between society and nature.
Making use of the information on the green space provided by Professor Cooley, we have put together an array of contraptions meant to improve plant life and allow human to non-human interaction. Some different areas of exploration examined by Professor Mayhew’s class of AVT-280 concentrated on bringing a positive element into the plant’s existence. By enhancing it’s life span and maturation through systems that provide them with consistent necessities vital to their existence. Others introduced a grimmer outlook on nature to human communication, introducing a dystopian element into the mix. Overall providing an insight into society and the life of plants.
Exhibition site: www.neonaturegmu.wordpress.com
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