Plant Intelligence in Moist Spaces: Designing Data Visualisations of Botanical Life

Abstract

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when the life sciences and computer science were in full bloom, new media practices based on computer technology were being integrated into living systems, for which new media artist Roy Ascott proposed the concept of ‘moist media’ – a medium born from the intersection of dry digital media and moist biological systems. This reflection on creative practice takes moist media as the context, plants as the medium, and botanical life as the research context. My digital art depicts the life phenomena of plants through data visualisation to explore the practical value of plants as creative media. The form, technology, and thematic elements of data visualisation of life can work together in the context of moist media to expand the space of communication between humans and plants.