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Just read about his newest piece, Hylozoic Soil, which will apparenty be at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art until the beginning of December.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>
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</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>More specifically, from Wired, the piece will express Hylozoism, the belief that matter has life, through the construction that "trembles, grasps and snaps at people who pass through it." "Hundreds of frondlike fingers made of serrated Mylar, acetate and polycarbonate reach out to greet you, as dense colonies of whiskers wave excitedly overhead. But don't get too close: Needles attached to tiny latex bladders are poised to pierce your skin, and collectors grab hair and clothing."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sounds fascinating.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/sculptures/0635hylozoic_soil/hylozoic.html</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>
<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Gill Sans; font-size: 12px;">Hylozoic Soil (2007) is an interactive geotextile mesh that senses human occupants and responds with air movement, produced by peristaltic waves of motion within distributed fields of lightweight pores. Custom-manufactured components use parametric design and digital fabrication. Machine intelligence is embedded within networks of microcontrollers that coordinate arrays of proximity sensors and kinetic ?actuators?. Arrays of capacitance-sensing whiskers and shape-memory alloy actuators are used to create a diffuse peristaltic pumping that pulls air and organic matter through the occupied space.
</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>More specifically, from Wired, the piece will express Hylozoism, the belief that matter has life, through the construction that "trembles, grasps and snaps at people who pass through it." "Hundreds of frondlike fingers made of serrated Mylar, acetate and polycarbonate reach out to greet you, as dense colonies of whiskers wave excitedly overhead. But don't get too close: Needles attached to tiny latex bladders are poised to pierce your skin, and collectors grab hair and clothing."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sounds fascinating.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>http://www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com/sculptures/0635hylozoic_soil/hylozoic.html</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>
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