Spotlight: Sam Nester’s ‘Arcadia’ at George Mason University
A groundbreaking installation that puts the background environment into the foreground
23SHARES
Yassmin Salem with Don Russell and Sarah D’Alexander Photo: Evan Cantwell/Creative Services/George Mason University
All year long, George Mason University presents a technology-enabled audiovisual installation that bridges the realms of art, nature, and self-care and is rooted in the natural, real-time biorhythms of plants.
Sensors attached to plants in the Mason greenhouse provide data that is then applied to produce real-time sound through a variety of digital instruments and LED light based on pitches from those instruments, as part of the groundbreaking