GILBERTO ESPARZA

Nomadic Plant, 2008-11
“The work consists of a small automaton robot (nomadic plant) that moves towards water when its bacteria require nourishment. It contains vegetation and microorganisms living symbiotically inside the body of the machine.” 1

1 Fan Di’an and Zhang Ga, eds., Translife: International Triennial of New Media Art, (Liverpool, U.K.: Liverpool University Press, 2013), 201.