Emerge TEC- Interactive Plant SensoryArt

The implemented touch sensitive sensor generate a soothing sound from each plant. By interacting with individual plants audience can create musical compositions.

This is an  ongoing project at CoCA. We collaborate with Artists environmentalists,
inventors, local farmers, and software developers. 

This project is a part of CoCA ‘Symbiosis’ ongoing project initiated in 2014 which focus on Ecologies.

This is a platform to build creative activists and more effective, sustainable, dynamic art forms and practices to address contemporary geo-political, cultural, ecological issues. Emphasis on the philosophical concept of ecological systems mind, society, and environment.

The implemented touch sensitive sensor generate a soothing sound  from each plant. By interacting with individual plants audience can create musical compositions.

The relationship between human and nature has always been profoundly important to the growth of our mind and body. The human beings of all cultures and races have been incredibly interconnected their livelihoods with nature. The potted plants and water features in our artificial environments indicate our desire for the connectivity towards nature. Time has made us more detached from our natural habitat. Nature has once being a home for all of us now it has become a place to visit. The Plants connected to this project is carefully selected by the artists related to their childhood memories, playing outdoor connected with nature.

Creating a fantasy play garden in collaboration with Artists, Environmentalists, Inventors and Software developers CoCA, Collective of Contemporary Artists are creating a platform for the audience to interact with the plants through technology and to experience its soothing and healing powers. These Plants unfolds multiple narratives and histories connected with sociopolitical and ecological systems.

Project Team​

Chinthaka Thenuwara – Artist
Poornima Jayasinghe – Artist
Sarangi  Rathnayake –  Music Composing
Thilak Kariyawasam – Environmentalist [Sri Lanka nature group] 
Dilshan Jayakodi- Inventor/ Software Engineer
Amal Rajapaksha  – IT Engineer