DIGITAL TASTING RULES
Interactive installation with AR, 2023
TITLE: DIGITAL TASTING RULES
TECHNICAL INFO: An Interactive installation with AR, 2023
PLACE: МИКРОКОСМ ЦИФРЫ / THIRD PLACE / St. Petersburg, Russia
The work was created as part of the THIRD PLACE residency
TECHNICAL INFO: An Interactive installation with AR, 2023
PLACE: МИКРОКОСМ ЦИФРЫ / THIRD PLACE / St. Petersburg, Russia
The work was created as part of the THIRD PLACE residency
CONCEPT & THEORY
A physical continuation of the Bloom Morphology inquiry, materializing virtual data architectures into a tactile, spatial reality. The installation operates as a speculative automated techno-ecosystem, questioning how ancient human consumption rituals, sensory sharing, and food distribution are restructured under the influence of automation and ubiquitous computing. By connecting biological cycles with industrial processing metaphors, the work challenges the boundaries between natural evolution and automated tech-infrastructures, examining how the act of eating becomes mediated by machines.
METHODOLOGY & INTERACTION
The project transforms the gallery into an active social laboratory, deploying a large-scale physical interface designed for concurrent multi-user engagement. The central sculpture scales the metaverse cherry-crop model into a tangible, multi-tiered totem. The upper kinetic spiral stands as a physical manifestation of a digital plant structure, while the lower shafts resemble abstract industrial barrels used for resource processing and food storage.
The core interaction happens around a custom-built labyrinth workstation featuring a shared infrastructure. Rather than provoking isolated viewing, the tactile channels force participants to physically cluster around the system, co-negotiating the spatial movement of edible assets. Visitors collectively manipulate these physical pieces across the shared tracks, orchestrating a spontaneous spatial choreography where individual selections immediately alter the system state for others nearby.
Simultaneously, a custom AR interface introduces autonomous robotic satellites that navigate the physical space to pollinate the synthetic flower structures, layering spatial computing over physical collaboration.
A physical continuation of the Bloom Morphology inquiry, materializing virtual data architectures into a tactile, spatial reality. The installation operates as a speculative automated techno-ecosystem, questioning how ancient human consumption rituals, sensory sharing, and food distribution are restructured under the influence of automation and ubiquitous computing. By connecting biological cycles with industrial processing metaphors, the work challenges the boundaries between natural evolution and automated tech-infrastructures, examining how the act of eating becomes mediated by machines.
METHODOLOGY & INTERACTION
The project transforms the gallery into an active social laboratory, deploying a large-scale physical interface designed for concurrent multi-user engagement. The central sculpture scales the metaverse cherry-crop model into a tangible, multi-tiered totem. The upper kinetic spiral stands as a physical manifestation of a digital plant structure, while the lower shafts resemble abstract industrial barrels used for resource processing and food storage.
The core interaction happens around a custom-built labyrinth workstation featuring a shared infrastructure. Rather than provoking isolated viewing, the tactile channels force participants to physically cluster around the system, co-negotiating the spatial movement of edible assets. Visitors collectively manipulate these physical pieces across the shared tracks, orchestrating a spontaneous spatial choreography where individual selections immediately alter the system state for others nearby.
Simultaneously, a custom AR interface introduces autonomous robotic satellites that navigate the physical space to pollinate the synthetic flower structures, layering spatial computing over physical collaboration.
The installation with AR layer
