Plant-to-Plant Protocols with Sarah Grant is an unstable network of radios and IR sensor pairs attached to plants. It is a meditation on the aesthetics of data transmission and network disruptions caused by the natural movement of plants in response to light, wind, and other natural conditions. ASCII art data is transmitted in a loop between 12 networked devices and continuously printed out to a browser window once per iteration. A 13th device, a Raspberry Pi, pushes our ASCII data out to a public facing web page accessible to anyone with the link.

Data transmission is processed by a simple data transfer protocol custom written by the artist, resulting in out of order or dropped bytes. As glitches are introduced to the data due to this and other network disruptions caused by broken sensor connections between moving plants, we indulge in the aesthetics of data corruption and see what happens when we remove controls for maintaining the integrity of data received over a network connection.

FEES & REGISTRATION
50 EUR / 35 EUR
Upon registration only: register@artlaboratory-berlin.org

Participation upon current hygiene rules.*

CURATED BY
Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz
@rappregine

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