ITERATE AND POSITION

Different cultural needs will give rise to different styles of garden design. Two garden styles derived from the Middle Ages.
In monastery gardens, the cross-shaped design is the most common, while in courtyard gardens, the geometric figures built by vegetation are a highlight.The trees in the garden pay attention to the shading effect, and trim the trees and shrubs into spherical or other geometric shapes, similar to the plant carvings of ancient Rome.

Medieval gardens are not a pure art form. Its production and development are closely related to the social system at that time. Relying on the social background of royal power and religious power, gave birth to its unique development style
I try to found some medieval architectural sculpture styles and pattern designs, and extracted them and summarized them in the shape and color of plants

Other elements in the garden

Generally speaking, Chinese classical gardens are composed of six elements: mountain building, pond management, plants, animals, architecture, plaques, couplets and carved stones.

In general, the project was created to explore the boundaries that exist between nature and artificial things. Because the gardens where the pavilion was located were green, and since the pavilion itself was transparent, it created a new environment and architecture that forced the natural and the artificial to merge and blend in perfectly.

Lush green communities with roof top gardens, floating villages, transport fuelled by clean energy and hope-filled sci-fi tales. Imagine a world in which existing technologies are deployed for the greater good of both people and the planet.

It’s called solarpunk. The term, coined in 2008, refers to an art movement which broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature in a sustainable and egalitarian world.

So based on solarpunk’s vision, I use technology and futuristic renewable resources to create plants in the garden.

The formation of the artistic conception beauty of plants is relatively complicated. It is related to national cultural traditions, ideological customs, cultural education levels, and social historical development. It is a combination of many factors, including the morphological characteristics of plant structure. These factors have a comprehensive influence on the final effect of wisdom, making it the most vibrant place in the wisdom culture system, and the best reflection of nature and the garden owner’s thinking world.

In my previous research, I found that under a strong magnetic field, plants will grow faster and become distorted.
So I created a garden of the future, my assumption is that here, the plants will be affected by the strong magnetic field instead of the sun. Strong magnetic field can change their growth direction and control their growth form

Chinese ancient garden
The art of gardening in China takes the pursuit of the spiritual realm of nature as the ultimate and highest goal, thus achieving the aesthetic purport of “Although it is made by humans, it is open to nature”.

The culture and aesthetics of the times will be reflected in the garden

The creation of this decorative shape-trimming-can be traced back to ancient times, when humans mastered the art of creating magical structures from nature.

Their shapes are like geometric shapes. I created some basic shapes with software and made some changes on the basis of this shape.

Are there any hierarchies between nature and technology? Plants are co-inhabitants, not objects of possession
What kind of garden do we want to build? The garden is the epitome of getting along with nature

“In landscape design, in addition to using the designer’s engineering language to express the design intent, it is also necessary to use terrain, plants, water bodies, and buildings to establish entities with three-dimensional space.”

This vinyl record is dedicated to helping plants grow. The album contains a high-frequency sound that can affect plant growth
Dr. Milstein believes that plants that listen to music grow faster than plants that do not listen to music. “Sound waves can open the stomata of plants more open, allowing them to interact more with the air.”

Gry Bagøien likes to use repeated humming and peaceful melody to form a secret dialogue with plants. He is poetic in his own style, friendly to plants and good for sleeping.

Gardens can exist in our lives in any form
Arrange this newspaper in the form of a garden, The title is like grass

Doctor of philosophy Santiago beruete also said in Philosophy in the garden that the garden is a vivid art with complex symbolic significance, a cultural work and a fine mental creation. Therefore, the garden is also the theme of philosophical thinking.
Could this be the case? A small garden can see the world, and all gardeners are philosophers.

A man who immediately returned to the garden after the big show and began to pick vegetables and cut flowers.  
He also tried to take his team to his own garden to pick and cut those faded flowers and autumn branches after midsummer, and make the most unique prints on the autumn and winter 2019 show through shooting.

He also realized this philosophy in his buried Garden – even if the garden is still a wasteland today, for the people working here, in fact, everything is budding and already exists in their imagination.
Capek wrote that we didn’t see the new bud because it was hidden deep in the soil; We don’t see the future because it is around us, and the gardener is the one who lives for the future.

Provide some kind of unconscious request. If much of the pleasure we get from the garden really depends on denying the separation between the conscious person and the rest of nature, then the development of the garden may think it is a complicated lie. Or, as we learn more about animal behavior, genetic code, and the mysterious relationship between matter and consciousness, gardens may prove to be a long-term expression of human behavior
The garden designer strives to make the garden meaningful when constructing the garden, but what is the meaning of the real natural landscape.

In this semester’s course, I started by examining the meaning of the garden and posed the question of what makes it a garden as an area of study. In Jane Gillette’s canned gardens, “If people use gardens to express ideas, we need to ask what ideas need gardens to be fully and best expressed, an expression that some other medium cannot adequately achieve – like poetry, or philosophical essays, plays, landscape paintings. “

Thinking of it this way, the garden is not only part of the yard used to grow flowers and vegetables, it is also a new medium. In the garden I created, I began to think about the mediums in which a garden could exist.

Garden, gardener, philosopher

Marc Treib (1995) asks, “Must Landscapes Mean?” Wliat happens if, instead of asking, “Must Landscapes Mean?” we ask, “Can Gardens Mean?” I consider the possibility that real gardens are by definition incapable of meaning anything, or anything much, and that the strength of the garden—its ability to provide beauty and delight—lies in this very incapacity.

visual essay

My previous experiment has always been to study the impact of technology on people’s daily life, in this semester experiment, I still focus on this topic. The relationship between technology and mankind is a huge topic, and I hope to narrow my scope. When I made 100 screengrabs at the beginning, I used photography to show the image of magnetic field changes. I found that the electromagnetic waves of daily life can be used as my new direction of interest. It is invisible and intangible, but it exists in every aspect of our daily life. In my previous work, I have been trying to visualize this invisible electromagnetic wave, but I have found as the research progresses, I am more fascinated by the impact of the magnetic field on living bodies, enriching and imagining through the language of graphic design.

Many scientists have proposed that the treatment of crop seeds with an externally strengthened magnetic field can increase the growth of seedlings. For example, placing a magnet under the glass bottle of the plant will speed up the rooting speed. At the beginning, my initial idea was how to change the magnetic field environment around plants, so I thought of Oersted’s magnetoelectricity experiment, which changes the size of the magnetic field around plants by changing the current in the energized wire. Similarly, In 1868, Russian botanist Andrei Famintsyn was the first person to use artificial light for plant growth and research, Plant growth lamps are artificial light sources, usually electric light sources, designed to stimulate plant growth by emitting electromagnetic spectrum suitable for photosynthesis (Proc Natl Acad,1998). Also, I found that although weak magnetic fields can increase the growth rate of plants, when the magnetic field becomes larger, the shape of the plants will be distorted or directly lead to death, so I used graphic design to express this process, looking at the invisible magnetic field force from the growth and possibility of a bead plant.

In fact, during the whole process, my position has changed a lot. Since I didn’t know much about magnetic field at the beginning, the things I wanted to perform in the early stage of the project were also very limited. But with the in-depth research, I discovered the relationship between magnetic field and biology. Scientific experiments and materials gave me more inspiration and gave me more perspectives on magnetic fields. And in the whole process, I also found a lot of experiments by related artists, their attempts at technology and biology. I rethink the relationship between magnetic field and biology, how to increase the variables are very interesting points in this experiment, and it is also a point worthy of my continued exploration in the future. Previous scientific and biological knowledge appeared more in junior high school textbooks, but how to convert it into visual language and how to increase its transmission efficiency. What interests me more is how to reflect future experiments and imaginations in this field in my design. The magical magnetic field and biology have given me a lot of room to dream about the future. Many scientists have already raised the question of “whether humans can really induce gene mutations”. I think visual communication design can also participate in the guessing and prediction of future scientific topics.

Reference：

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LIN C T, YANG H Y, GUO H W, et al. Enhancement of blue-light sensitivity of Arabidopsis seedlings by a blue light receptor cryptochrome 2 [J]. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 1998, 95(5): 2686-2690.

With the development of modern science and technology, biomagnetism has attracted the attention of scientists. It is a discipline that studies the interrelationships and interactions between magnetic properties, magnetic fields, and biological characteristics. “Magnetic field treatment of seeds can produce magnetically induced growth and genetic effects, increase seed germination, promote root growth, and increase water and fertilizer capacity.”( KOPANEV V I,1979) For example, treatment with a magnetic field strength of 290g for 60 minutes has the highest promotion rate for corn root length and plant height. This kind of magnetic field Intensity to artificially change the way plants grow has given me a lot of imagination and desire for performance.

 If seed is placed in a permanent magnet with a strength of up to 4000 Gauss, it is interesting to find that the seedling roots seem to avoid the influence of the magnetic field, and are biased toward the weaker side of the magnetic field.

3D magnetic flower model

American biologists created the world’s first synthetic life form, which is a cell whose genetic code is not assembled by its parents, but by a computer. Similarly, Kila and Rusharc explored synthetic biology, presenting an extreme hybrid breeding and technology to push organisms into the heart of mutant life forms of the future. Computer circuits and components determine the birth of these wonderful new creatures, not Darwin’s evolution. Therefore, I thought about in the future, how humans can control the growth of plants and change the conventional theory of biological evolution by changing the magnetic field at will. I hope to create such an imaginative and virtual installation through my visual language. First of all, I borrowed the electromagnetism device model, because I wanted to change the magnetic field environment around the plants, the first point I thought of was to learn from Oersted’s electromagnetism experiment to increase the current of the energized wire to increase the magnetic field strength. So it can be seen that in my device, the rhizome of the flower shape will be entangled by wires and magnets. The function is to transmit current and generate a magnetic field to affect the plant. In an environment where the magnetic field is not particularly strong, the magnetic field will only accelerate the growth of plants, but will not have a particularly large impact on the deformation, so my device demonstrates the future technology of combining electromagnetics and plants. However, I also learned that when in a strong magnetic field, the growth of plants will be distorted, so I created this 3D magnetic flower model. At the beginning, it knew about an ordinary seedling, but in order to accelerate its growth, I added circular magnets in it, and I continued to strengthen its magnetic field size, I added a power cord for it. At the same time, I created this magnetic flower-producing device through scientific research and my imagination of the future.

Magnetic field garden

However, with the infinite increase of the magnetic field, under the strong magnetic field environment, the growth of plants will undergo genetic mutation or death. The supernatural garden Mat Collishaw, Collishaw borrowed some of these characters to perform in the three-dimensional Zoetrope. When the machine rotates, an animated scene that is both vivid and annoying appears. Under the gorgeous and charming appearance, black fairy tales of conquered, controlled and chaotic bred. This gave me a lot of inspiration. I also wanted to create a more surreal garden. In the garden I created, plants did not grow toward the sun, but grew under the influence of a magnetic field. Based on the investigation of the weak magnetic field into a strong magnetic field, plants will have genetic mutations. This is a seemingly prosperous and beautiful new world. I use graphic design to try to find a new connection with the landscape and transform it into a “humanized” environment.

Collishaw borrowed some of these characters to perform in a three-dimensional Zoetrope, an updated version of a Nineteenth Century animation device. As the machine rotates, an animated scene appears that is both compelling and unsavoury.

How to capture invisible electromagnetic waves, I focus more research on electromagnetic radiation in daily life, extract inspiration from natural and scientific phenomena, and provide a new perspective on the relationship between biology and technology. During the investigation, I learned that objects that are not at absolute zero (273.15 degrees Celsius below the temperature scale) will radiate electromagnetic waves to the outside world. Absolute zero is impossible to achieve in nature, so electromagnetic waves are everywhere. Both inside and outside the human body are filled with electrical and magnetic energy emitted by natural and man-made radiation sources. As for man-made radiation sources, they include various household appliances. Mainly，Turning a generator or a suitable medium will generate electricity, and the frequency is determined by the number of rotations. This is my new thinking on how to understand electromagnetic phenomena. We cannot see electromagnetic waves, but the space where electromagnetic waves exist is full of human activities, and humans interact with electromagnetic waves. I started from my own living environment. I rescanned my bedroom and rearranged it to simulate a virtual space affected by electromagnetic waves.

During the research, I discovered the magical Kirlian Photography. This camera can photograph invisible energy fields that are invisible to and reflect them in the phase formation process in different colors. Kirlian Photography recorded the process of high-voltage corona discharges around objects. The light you see during the Kirlian discharge is caused by the ionization of the air and part of the object being photographed. The Kirlian camera can also photograph the electromagnetic field around the human body, which is called human body halo (changes color with the change of human emotions). Under high voltage, various organic and inorganic substances will be exposed to light on the photosensitive emulsion to produce glow. This kind of photography is often used in occultism to prove that the soul is immortal. We know that the radiation of electromagnetic waves cannot be seen intuitively, but through this visualized radioactive halo, we can see the reflection of the object’s energy in daily life. So in the virtual space I created, the visual form of the object is expressed through a halo-like energy field.

In the same way, I want to continue to explore the effect of magnetic fields on life activities. I found that different types, strengths and distributions of external magnetic fields have different effects on living organisms. Migratory birds and returning pigeons can clearly figure out the paths around them. Many studies have strongly proved that birds can make good use of geomagnetism. If the fruit flies are kept in a uniform and constant magnetic field, when the magnetic field is 0.01-0.15 tex, the morphology of the fruit flies does not change significantly, but when the magnetic field is increased to 0.3-0.4 tex, the morphological distortion increases significantly. What’s more interesting is that when the seed is placed in a permanent magnet with a strength of up to 4000 Gauss, it is interesting to find that the seedling roots seem to avoid the influence of the magnetic field, and are biased toward the weaker side of the magnetic field. This reminds me of genetic mutations in Alessandra Kila’s works of art. Kila and Rusharc explored synthetic biology, presenting an extreme hybrid breeding and technology to push organisms into the heart of mutant life forms of the future. Computer circuits and components determine the birth of these wonderful new creatures, not Darwin’s evolution. I imagined what changes would happen to humans and organisms in a strong magnetic field, just as a strong magnetic field would change the shape of fruit flies and change the direction of corn growth. In the garden I created, the plants did not grow toward the light, but grew under the influence of the magnetic field. Under the control of the strong magnetic field, the plants also began to undergo genetic mutations. This is a seemingly prosperous and beautiful new world. Under its gorgeous and charming appearance, black fairy tales that are conquered, controlled, and chaotic are bred.I use graphic design to try to find a new connection with the landscape, which is translated into a kind of “humanized” environment

We know that the radiation of electromagnetic waves cannot be seen intuitively, but through this visualized radioactive halo, we can see the reflection of the object’s energy in daily life. So in the virtual space I created, the visual form of the object is expressed through a halo-like energy field.

The Kirlian effect is similar to a common physical effect called corona glow, and not just superficially similar. The so-called corona glow refers to the discharge phenomenon that occurs in the air around an object in a strong electric field. Kirlian ‘s camera can also photograph the electromagnetic field around the human body, which is called human halo (changes color with the change of human emotions), which exactly echoes the energy field of the human body in ancient China.

I learned that objects that are not at absolute zero (273.15 degrees Celsius below the temperature scale) will radiate electromagnetic waves to the outside world. Absolute zero is impossible to achieve in nature, so electromagnetic waves are everywhere. Both inside and outside the human body are filled with electrical and magnetic energy emitted by natural and man-made radiation sources.

This is my new thinking on how to understand electromagnetic phenomena. We cannot see electromagnetic waves, but the space where electromagnetic waves exist is full of human activities, and humans interact with electromagnetic waves. I started from my own living environment. I rescanned my bedroom and rearranged it to simulate a virtual space affected by electromagnetic waves.

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In the same way, I want to continue to explore the effect of magnetic fields on life activities. I found that different types, strengths and distributions of external magnetic fields have different effects on living organisms.

I imagined what changes would happen to humans and organisms in a strong magnetic field, just as a strong magnetic field would change the shape of fruit flies and change the direction of corn growth. I want to match everyday electronic equipment with natural life, recreate it, create an extremely strong magnetic field, and reintegrate natural objects with man-made objects (traces of human life).

Collishaw successfully draws upon the language and traditions of art history, using modern technology and visual devices that beguile the human eye, to present excesses of violence that are both alluring and mesmerizing.

With the development of technology, most of our daily actions can be completed on mobile phones. Especially in the epidemic environment, we rely more on electronic equipment. In my daily life, in addition to sleeping, I spend almost 8 hours on my mobile phone every day. It almost controls my daily life. The information I learn comes from this phone. Sometimes I even get bored of this kind of life. I use the mobile phone as a power source, and the operation of our fingers on the mobile phone is the movement of the magnet. The entire mobile phone generates a magnetic field. We change the movement of the magnetic field, and the magnetic field is also attracting us. I wanted to simulate an exhibition space. People can participate in this process interactively, and project their behavior into the movement of magnetic objects, and the whole process can be visualized on a large screen.

In addition to WiFi signals, the three-dimensional space we live in is also densely covered with various electromagnetic waves or fields: mobile phone signals, FM/AM, magnetic fields, various ultraviolet and infrared rays… From the past to the present, countless scientists and artists Explore and experiment with these invisible dimensions. Making these invisible fields visible to our naked eyes is one of the very interesting topics.

Timo Arnall of Touch and Jack Schulze of Berg used a CNLohr-like method in 2009 to visualize the characteristics of RFID. RFID is widely used in various access control, payment, positioning and other systems. They hope that by visualizing the “field” of RFID, they can more intuitively understand the influence of factors such as shape and orientation, so as to better design products.

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My experiment this time focuses on magnetism and magnetic fields. When I was in junior high school, we did some experiments on magnetism. As the magnet moves, the iron powder will show a radial movement trajectory around the period. This magnetic phenomenon fascinates me. In my 100 screengrabs, I re-simulated this experiment and used the camera to record the motion trajectory of the iron powder. In these images of constantly changing motion, I think this seems to be a new way to re-visualize the trajectory of the magnetic field and we record the invisible electromagnetic field.

With curiosity about magnetic fields and scientific phenomena, I want to continue to explore this topic in depth. Since the magnetism of matter can neither be seen nor touched, we cannot directly experience the existence of magnetism through our five sense organs. The mutual attraction of magnetic substances is carried out by the magnetic field. I try to visualize the invisible magnetic field and the effect of magnetism. After a deeper understanding, I became fascinated by the relationship between electricity and magnetism and turned it into an interest in visual experience.

I was shocked by a work of magnetic fluid art. American new media artist Eric Mesplé took 8 months to create a skull sculpture installation that can suck up “venom”. The work combines ferrofluid and iconic metal products to present the passing of life in an intuitive dark vision, symbolizing the passage of time, and the skull is the “murderer” of killing time. The “venom” sucked up by the skull is actually a material called ferrofluid, and this is a work that can interact with the audience. When the observer approaches, the skull will open its mouth and suck up this kind of “venom”. “General dark black ferrofluid. In other words, this “hourglass” does not run according to the regular time, but flows according to the time the viewer is around it! I think this is the direction I want to study and try ，combining the curiosity of the audience with static objects that are often assumed to explore the interactivity in the work.

In the next four weeks, apart from studying the visual language of magnetism, I was more curious about the connection between magnetism and real life. We have modern apartments with light-emitting screens, LED lights, electromagnetic noise and continuous information flow. These electronic devices should have gradually dominated our lifestyle. This reminds me of the relationship between magnetism and electricity. The movement of the magnetic fluid can affect the shape of the magnetic fluid, which is a reflection of our behavior. My practice is often related to the impact of technology on human life, so this time my theme is still related to this. But I think that technology and human beings are a very broad point, electromagnetic waves are a direction that we ignore. Although human beings recognized the phenomenon of magnetism very early, it was not until modern times that people’s understanding of the phenomenon of magnetism was gradually systematized. As we know, countless electromagnetic instruments were invented, such as telephones, radios, generators, and motors. Magnetic technology has penetrated into our daily lives. I am very curious how this phenomenon changes our daily lives, how I use the language of graphic design to explore the magical magnetic phenomenon. More interestingly, the relationship between humans and magnetism is an interactive relationship, I hope to explore the relationship between the magnetic field and humans in a multi-dimensional and interactive way