'Lightweeds' by Simon Heijdens will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as part of an exhibition highlighting pieces from the museum's permanent collection.
In 'Lightweeds', Heijdens charts both the passage of time and the evolution of the natural surroundings through what he describes as "a living digital organism". The computer-generated and digitally-projected plants respond to sunshine, precipitation and wind as measured from the environment outside by accompanying weather sensors. With passing human traffic the willowy weeds bend, loose their seeds and pollinate to other walls throughout the space to create a constantly changing wallpaper, ultimately revealing the character of the space and its use. As the plant's behavioral patterns are derived purely from the collated data fed to the computer from the sensors, a theoretically infinite universe of possible forms is provided and the randomness of nature is brought into the unnatural world.
'Lightweeds' will be presented in the Permanent Collection Galleries 3F from 14 February 2014 until 31 January 2015.
January 29, 2014