Prix Ars Electronica 2024: "ZOE” by Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan awarded the Honorary Mention.

ZOE is the first step in an ongoing research called Mycobotics.This research focuses on the possibilities of biocomputing with fungi through robotics and more than human-computer interaction. We focus on technical and narrative aspects to create an environment for meaningful collaboration, using timelines, state machines and behavioural trees. We explore the intricate connections between human and non-human entities and the role of data in shaping these interactions. We use industrial robots and their quality of repetition and precision as the interface to reconsider the dynamics between technology and nature, encompassing both human and non-human aspects

Credits:
Noor Stenfert Kroese & Amir Bastan
www.stenfertkroese.com & www.amirbastan.com

Produced by Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam ( ACT : Art, Climate & Transition ) in coproduction with Creative Robotics – University of Arts Linz, KUKA, and Mushroom Research Center Austria.
ZOE is part of ACT: Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, pandemics, mass extinction and growing inequalities, we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.

More info: www.stenfertkroese.com/zoe