Subject –
FloraBorg is a interdisciplinary art work that was a joint project with Elizabeth Demaray and the Rutgers New Brunswick engineering department. FloraBorg is a robot plant that uses senors and other technical elements to read the plants needs such as sunlight, and water. The bots drive around finding the best source of sunlight and when the sensor goes off for a need of water it drives to the nearest source.
Content –
The artist intention of this work could be to insinuate that like us plants have needs and actively living. And just because the plants may not be conscious like us humans they still have worth. By giving these plants autonomy this pushes that thought further. Another intention of the artist could be that She was coming up with an innovated idea on how to take care of your house plants and having a busy work life.
Aaron & New Media Art 