{"id":2176,"date":"2023-09-05T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T21:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/us\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2024-01-27T02:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T02:13:31","slug":"structure-of-affect-sensing-plants-doodling-robots-national-gallery-of-art-vilnius-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Structure of Affect: Sensing Plants,\u00a0Doodling\u00a0Robots. National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Structure of A\ufb00ect is an experimental playground that assumes various forms: a swamp, an arti\ufb01cial organ, and a laboratory of emergent ecologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The work consists of a mix of materialities, objects, and agencies: lower peatland and raised peat bog models, a water \ufb01ltration system, an air pollution sensor, a reed papermaking workshop, doodling robots, and networks connecting them all. The plant community models were developed in collaboration with wetland restoration scientists. After the exhibition, all plants on display will be returned to their habitats, which are undergoing restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The swamp\u2014a living organism\u2014is nested in the center of the former museum of the revolution. Thus, the architecture that once celebrated the progress of modern man and his victory over nature is interrupted by a formless hybridity that breaks through the reinforced concrete \ufb02oor in what is now a center of contemporary culture, the National Gallery of Art. Confronting a modernist legacy of \ufb01ltering and puri\ufb01cation, this animated and more-or-less invited entity introduces an active multiplicity of dirt, critters, sounds, and smells, and invites us to imagine the metabolic processes in which the institution is\u2014and could be\u2014involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency of Lithuania, a solid particle sensor is installed in the swamp of Structure of A\ufb00ect. The data it gathers is transmitted to the AI module Swamp Intelligence and to two doodling robots in the exhibition hall. The robots create their own graphic swampy imaginaries by translating the data collected in the swamp into vectors (perhaps making us suspect that the swamp brain has dreamt the whole exhibition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In wetlands, invasive reeds and black alders spread quickly, threatening the ecosystem with their overgrowth. To ensure the circulation of water and preserve the wetlands, scientists must reduce these plant populations every year. Putting harvested reeds to good use, Structure of A\ufb00ect o\ufb00ers a workshop at which the audience is invited to make their own reed paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another speculative product in the exhibition is a composite board made from reed compressed with a plant-based glue. The infrastructure of the workshop\u2014tables and dryers for reed paper\u2014is created from black alder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Linen towels for drying the reed paper become displays for reference libraries and archives of other artworks. During the course of the exhibition, the dry archives circulate among the structures and spaces of the museum, and reference images printed on the towels are soaked in the swampy water, thus creating operational images.  In this way\u2014as if in a swamp\u2014Structure of A\ufb00ect extends the ecology of wetlands restoration throughout the institution\u2019s architecture, in works and displays whose elements and materialities mix and mingle in a performance of the exhibition\u2019s a\ufb00ective and eco-empathetic method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concept: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
Architecture: Jonas \u017dukauskas, Jurga Daubarait\u0117
Bog plant community: Remigijus Daubaras, Laima Kristina  Kazlauskien\u0117, Vytautas Kazlauskas
Reed papermaking workshop: Natalia Grom
Programming: Jonas Kubilius
Fabrication: Antanas Gerlikas, Giedrius Pilkis
Scienti\ufb01c advisors: Tobias Putrih, Nerijus Zableckis
Producer: MIT Climate Visions
Special thanks: Gintaras Rapkauskas, Barbara Lavrenova,  Raimonda Grumadait\u0117, Juozas Molis, Juozas Dautartas, J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Structure of A\ufb00ect: Sensing Plants, Doodling Robots was conceived for the Partially Swamped Institution<\/a> curated by Lars Bang Larsen for the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. Supported by Vytautas Magnus University, UAB Durpeta, UAB Balo\u0161a, UAB Paina ir Ko, Environmental Protection Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video: Sensing Plants (1)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video: Sensing Plants (2)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video: Reed Papermaking Workshop with Natalia Grom (1)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video: Reed Papermaking Workshop with Natalia Grom (2)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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