Installing Philip Beesley’s Epiphyte Grove
Preparing Philip Beesley’s Epiphyte Grove
“What if buildings around you were alive, and responded to your touch?” Epiphyte Grove is part of Beesley’s Hylozoic series and will be shown at TKM Gråmølna Sep 28 – Oct 28.
PHILIP BEESLEY [CA]
Epiphyte Grove – Hylozoic series (2011 – 2012) The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around the world. It is an immersive, interactive environment that moves and breathes around its viewers, creating an environment that can ‘feel’ and ‘care’. Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. This new technology has, according to the London Times, “the power to be the dominant aesthetic of…