PLANT LAB: plant growth chamber

PLANT LAB: samples

PLANT LAB: old plant growth chamber

Note: The plant growth room is currently used as storage. Lab tour organized by the biologist and photographer Kristophe Diaz

PLANT LAB: refrigerators

PLANT LAB: the archive

Envelopes with plant seeds @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Storing the seeds @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Plants'drawer @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Each drawer @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Transparent Plants @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Tiny Plants @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Blue Tiny Plants @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Beautiful Blue Tiny Plants @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Traditional Storage @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Notes @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

Keys @ Archive of Kristophe Diaz, Biology Lab, UMass

PLANT LAB: the visit @ UMass
The tour was organized by biologist (and photographer) Kristophe Diaz

photodotes @ MIT Museum

Photodotes poster

Abstract:
Limited natural light in working/living indoor spaces of dense urban environments often causes mental and health disorders such as decreased productivity, depression, women’s cycle patterns irregularities. This research develops a series of architectural devices called Photodotes (=light donors) that transmit natural light energy from outdoor spaces to under-light indoor spaces through fiberoptic cables. This poster presents an experiment that used Photodotes to grow plants in water containers in a dark gallery at MassArt, Boston during Winter 2012. Through collecting, transferring, and emitting natural light, Photodotes helped plants to absorb energy in order to develop. Plants were used both as a model system for living organisms, but also for their potential function to become food energy sources themselves. Through this chain, Photodotes become a greenhouse environment that offers light energy in dark places, proposing a new type of sustainable architecture.  Photos in the poster by: Dominic Tschoepe

zitofos @ art and design circle

Art and Design Circle @ Ground Floor, MIT Museum

Light and Architecture, by Seth Riskin, Artist and Forum's organizer

Drawing with Light? by Seth Riskin, Artist and Forum's organizer

Half of the Circle

The inventor with the throwing ball (3dprinted with paint)

Digital Media and Museums by Marco

Choreography Maps

Seth Riskin during presentation

Allan Doyle in action

Spatial Light presented on October 12th at Art Design Circle @ MIT Museum:
A monthly forum for sharing ideas and projects at the intersection of art, science and engineering--light, sound, performance; new methods of interaction and communication; pioneering new technologies as artistic media; new forms of imaging, etc.