Becoming a Tomato – A Computational Performance

The content of this paper details the computational performance art piece ‘Becoming a Tomato – A Computational Performance’ by Lapa Pareira. In the piece “Becoming a Tomato – A Computational Performance”, two performers aim to develop a non-linear strategy to synchronise their experiential framework to that of a tomato plant. Through observation, research and the computational art methodology, a ruleset of actions and reactions originated. The three main parts relate to an ideation process where the phenomenon of black-boxing is used to only observe the In- and Outputs of a tomato plant and its reactions/adjustments. Thereby, a de-familiarization of the plant as a common and nourishing co-existing agent becomes opaque and unknown. Using the artistic approaches of material speculation and computational performance, Aristotelian notions of hierarchies of life are rejected by viewing the perceptive realm of plant life not through a reductive lens but rather through an augmentation of senses brought forth by the limitation of other senses.

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Leon Lapa Pereira

Jacco Borggreve

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 84-89

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[0001]Stichting Interfaculty

The Netherlands

[0002]Black Brick Studio

The Netherlands

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.11

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] Aristotle (2016). On the soul. translation: SmithA.J. The Internet Classics Archive, MIT, http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.html

[2] R. Briadotti (2013) “The Posthuman”, Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN: 9780745641584.

[3] P Calvo, M Gagliano, GM Souza & A Trewavas (2020) Plants are intelligent, and here is how. Annals of Botany 125: 11–28. Available here: http://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz155.

[4] C. DarwinF. Darwin (1880). The Power of movement in Plants. D Gentilcore (2010) Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy. Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-15206-X.

[5] D. Haraway(2016) ‘Staying with the Trouble.’ Duke University Press. ISBN electronic: 9780822373780.

[6] E. Kohn (2013) “How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human” University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520956865.

[7] Hans R. Kricheldorf (2016). Getting It Right in Science and Medicine: Can Science Progress through Errors? Fallacies and Facts.

[8] B. Latour (1999) “Pandora’s hope: essays on the reality of science studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674653368.

[9] B. L. Montgomery (2021) “Lessons from Plants”, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674241282.

[10] AG Parise, M Gagliano & GM Souza (2020) Extended cognition in plants: is it possible? Plant Signalling and Behavior 1710661 http://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2019.1710661.

[11] S. Petric Confronting Vegetal Otherness: Phytoteratology (2015). http://www.spelapetric.org/#/phytoteratology/.

[12] Philip Ross & Kasia Maynard (2021) Towards a 4th industrial revolution, Intelligent Buildings International, 13:3, 159-161, DOI: 10.1080/17508975.2021.1873625.

[13] M Pollan (2013). The intelligent plant. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligent-plant.

[14] J. Silvertown (2017). Dinner with Darwin: Food, drink, and evolution. S.l.: UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS.(p. 145)

[15] A. F. Smith (1994). The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery. Columbia SC, US: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781570030000.

[16] J. Starkmuth (2010) “The Making of Reality”. Starkmuth Publishing, Germany, 2010. ISBN 9783981359206.

[17] A. Tod “The New Contract” (2020). http://alantod.com/project/socials/

[18] R. WakkaryW. OdomS. HauserG. HertzH Lin (2016). A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical enquiry. http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2016/a-short-guide-to-material-speculation-Actual-artifacts-for-critical-inquiry#F4.

[19] A.N. Whitehead (1975) ‘Process and reality: an essay in cosmology.’ Free Press. ISBN: 9780029345702

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