Akira Nakayasu: Tentacle Flora
Artist(s):
Title:
- Tentacle Flora
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 2019: Proliferating Possibilities: Speculative Futures in Art and Design
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Creation Year:
- 2018
Medium:
- Robotic sculpture
Category:
Artist Statement:
Tentacle Flora is a robotic sculpture inspired by a vision of a colony of the sea anemone growing on the coral. A shape-memory alloy actuator is used as tentacles and is composed of a BioMetal Fiber such that it can bend in three directions. The top of the actuator glows softly mimicking a bioluminescent organism using a full colored LED. The Tentacle Flora induces the beauty, wonder, and existence of living sea anemones in the depths of the ocean.
