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-Speaking of participatory artworks, we have to recall Joseph Beuys'**7000 Oaks**, a "social sculpture" for which he had the participation of the public in Documenta 7 to plant seven thousand oak trees, in the city of Kassel, in 1982.+Speaking of participatory artworks, we have to recall **Joseph Beuys's 7000 Oak Trees**, a "social sculpture" for which he had the participation of the public in Documenta 7 to plant seven thousand oak trees, in the city of Kassel, in 1982.
  
-Another recent and related participatory project, was the **sunflower seeds** installation by Ai Wei Wei for the Tate Modern in London, 2010. He built a huge network of porcelain craftsmen in order to produce millions of fake sunflower seeds. He addressed the problem of (un)employment in China, reviving an old technique for centuries mastered by Chinese, the porcelain, while using a symbol of the Maoist times, the sunflower seed. Wei Wei created a massive landscape inside Tate's Turbine Hall after bringing the seeds from China. I had the fortunate chance to visit the installation last year and I was really touched by the project. The process is beautifully documented in a 15 minutes video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8+Another recent and related participatory project, was the **sunflower seeds installation by Ai Wei Wei** for the Tate Modern in London, 2010. He built a huge network of porcelain craftsmen in order to produce millions of fake sunflower seeds. He addressed the problem of (un)employment in China, reviving an old technique for centuries mastered by Chinese, the porcelain, while using a symbol of the Maoist times, the sunflower seed. Wei Wei created a massive landscape inside Tate's Turbine Hall after bringing the seeds from China. I had the fortunate chance to visit the installation last year and I was really touched by the project. The process is beautifully documented in a 15 minutes video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PueYywpkJW8
  
-Tom Russoti and Aesthletics Russotti has developed something called Aesthletics, performance-based art happenings which combine games and sports with conceptual social activitiesAesthletics is both a critique of our sports-obsessed culture and a way of harnessing the theatrical and ritualistic allure of sport. And, truth be told, Aesthletics is easy excuse for a good time. http://aesthletics.org+**Aesthletics**, playing sports as artistic practice, brainchild of artist Tom RussottiAesthletics acknowledges sport, especially contemporary spectator sport, as a mixture of physical activity, social interaction, movement, performanceand ritualIt is both a critique of our sports-obsessed culture and a way of harnessing the theatrical and ritualistic allure of sport. And, truth be told, Aesthletics is easy excuse for a good time. http://aesthletics.org
  
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 <blockquote>(...) We can now wonder at the ingeniousness of plants—the way they raise up their leaves to catch refreshing drops of rain and guide them down to their roots, and the fact that they have decided not to move around but to live in the same place all the time, which means they do not need to be able to see. Plus the fact that they have arranged for their fruits to be dispersed by animals or the wind. Plants have organized their existence so ingeniously that they do not even have to wake up.</blockquote> (Mark Manders, 2004) From: Why Do We Have Time to Think About Our Bodies? http://www.markmanders.org/texts/english/02 <blockquote>(...) We can now wonder at the ingeniousness of plants—the way they raise up their leaves to catch refreshing drops of rain and guide them down to their roots, and the fact that they have decided not to move around but to live in the same place all the time, which means they do not need to be able to see. Plus the fact that they have arranged for their fruits to be dispersed by animals or the wind. Plants have organized their existence so ingeniously that they do not even have to wake up.</blockquote> (Mark Manders, 2004) From: Why Do We Have Time to Think About Our Bodies? http://www.markmanders.org/texts/english/02
  
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 +Thanks to Daniel Berio's code we are now growing people digitally. They follow fractal, flowers, tree like forms. L-systems are a good example of how to grow these human structures with a handful of parameters. One can find many examples and applications online. I've found this site (http://evsc.net/v6/htm/lgarden.htm) by Eva Schindling, who works between art, science, technology and design. She created her //L-garden// and explains: "The L-Garden program is a tool for generating and evolving growing rules for drawings through genetic algorithms. The execution of the rules produces commands that lead to abstract drawings. Manual or automatic selection of those drawings leads to the generation of new rules through recombination and mutation."
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