Project description:

Symbiosis is a sculptural garden and water-droplet fountain that visualizes data from a Fitbit, (an exercise tracking device). The fountain is made from a re-purposed printer that drips water onto a pane of tilted glass. The droplets are timed and placed precisely so that they visualize the data from the fit tbit as they fall. The data droplets are the sole source of water for the plants and so their health is a direct reaction of the amount of exercise from the participant.

Colaborators:

Made as a colaboration with OpenLab at UCSC as a research art project around the Fitbit biotracker. Funded by a grant from Essex University.

By Joel Dream, Sean McGowen, Richard Vallejos, and Ian Ayyad

Showings

· Maker Fair, 2014
· LAST (Life Art Science and Technology) Festival, Zero 1 Garage, San Jose, CA, 2014
· Second LAST (Life Art Science and Technology) Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2014