The site-specific installation at Vasulka Kitchen Brno is a new interpretation of the work of Špela Petrič, whose intermedia practice explores the relationship between plants and other living organisms and technology. The PL'AI installation will open at 5 PM followed by a presentation by the artist in which she will present her research and the PLANT-MACHINE project.   

PL'AI is part of the PLANT-MACHINE opus and works with the notion of play as an ontological condition for all living bodies, including plants. The project is a process lasting several months in which plants grown from seed and an AI-robot whose perceptual world is limited to them, interact with each other.

Their interactions, referring to a game that transcends the human understanding of time, provide insights into artificial intelligence and how it can be shaped by the plant, and in turn, highlight the morphology of the plant marked by the robot's interventions.  

Špela Petrič works with new media and natural sciences. Her artistic practice connects biomedia and its performativity, exploring the relationships between bodies that reveal the foundations of our (bio)technological societies and proposing alternatives for their possible coexistence. In 2021 Špela Petrič received the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention Award for her project PL'AI. 

Web: https://www.spelapetric.org/ 

The installation is open in the premises of the Vašulka Kitchen Brno until Sunday 26 May 2024.

Photo: @JanaHosič  

Photoreport: Tatiana Drgonec Dižová