LEONARDO: JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ARTS, SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY
Edited by Roger F. Malina
"Hylozoic Soil" by Philip Beesley
"Hylozoic Soil is a visually arresting and complex installation. Quivering to life as viewers enter into its midst, this beguiling piece is made up of a network
of micro-controllers, proximity sensors and shape-memory alloy actuators. Hylozoic Soil offers layers of intriguing individual and group behaviours. Building upon simple motions embedded within individual elements, turbulent wave-like reactions are produced. Using its tendrils, fronts and bladders to lur visitors into its seemingly fragile web of laser-cut acrylic matrices, this work blurs the distinction between organism and environment."
Leonardo Volume 42, Number 4, 2009:
Journal of the International society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Edited by Roger F. Malina
MIT Press Journals, 20009
Cambridge, MA
ISSN 0024-094X,E-ISSN 1530-9282
