Garden of Eden (LiftFrance 09 Experience Presentation)

One of Lift Conference’s special treats is the Lift Experience, a series of projects and installations from artist and designers all over the world. Discover each installation on this blog, and check out the Lift France 09 Experience page for more information!

If robots had hair, how would we perceive them?

In a synthetic grass garden, animals sleep, awaken and sing as spectators approach them. Is this all natural? For Lift France with Fing, a collective of artists from Caen Normandy will be presenting a peculiar Garden of Eden, inhabited by half-wild, half-robotic animals. It questions the ambiguous relation between nature and technology, the impact of consumption and industrial production … not to mention our own relation to technology.

Landscapes that were altered by human activity, replanted forests, animals that have been genetically modified… What we call « nature » has often been touched by the hand of man. The Garden of Eden that will be shown at LIFT, peopled by half-animal, half-machine creatures, doesn’t really fit our commonly accepted conception of nature, but then again...

This installation, which will be shown for the first time at LIFT, will be created at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence. Their workshop progress with be blogged everyday the week prior to LIFT on Liftconference.com so keep your eyes open!