Pufis represent microorganisms cohabiting in an open ecosystem. A group of objects functions as a sensitive sensor network. The visitor is subsumed into the artificially created 'biosphere' through active sensor-based interaction. Pufination is incomplete without interaction. There's no leading role, we're all just cohabiting.
The project thus highlights our relationship to other life as an important factor to every individual’s own survival. In Pufination, we find ourselves inside a simulated projection of our everyday. Decentralised control, close stimulus response and adherence to simple rules – this is what links robots and visitors in the Pufination.
Pufi robots are based on the Arduino platform. They communicate with each other by a wireless network and with people by touch, sound, light and vibration.
produkcija / produced by: Ciberpipe / Kiberpipa (ErrOr)
http://www.ljudmila.org/pufination/
Robertina Šebjanič (SI)
Robertina Šebjanič is an artist whose work explores the biological, chemical, (geo)political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. In her analysis of the Anthropocene and its theoretical framework, the artist uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to the human impact on marine environments. Her works received awards and nominations at Prix Ars Electronica, STARTS Prize, Falling Walls and Re:Humanism.She exhibited/performed at solo and group exhibitions and in venues like: ZKM (Karlsruhe), CCCB (Barcelona), Gallery Cukrarna (Ljubljana), Matadero (Madrid), WRO Media Art Biennale (Wrocław), Ars Electronica (Linz), Device_art festival by KONTEJNER, Močvara (Zagreb), Art Laboratory (Berlin), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Ciudad de Mexico), Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb), MONOM (Berlin), Le Cube (Paris), Eyebeam (New York), CAAM – Atlantic Center of Modern Art (Gran Canaria) and many more.
robertina.net
Luka Frelih (SI)
Luka Frelih, born in 1974, is an artist working with computers and networks, a computer programmer, free software hacker and web designer. He is a core member of Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab since its founding in 1994.
Since 1994, he has produced many projects connecting technology and art: with Marko Peljhan, Vuk Ćosić, Cornelia Sollfrank and more. Member of Makrolab, ASCII Art Ensemble and pioneering net.art community projects: 7-11, Refresh, Remote-C. Programmed the instant ascii camera, a net art generator and more than one web map interface for positioned radio-linked roaming agents.
Together with other Ljudmila programmers he developed the SLIX Linux distribution and diverse free software tools to publish and manage multimedia databases on the web. Now trying to apply the principles of free software and digital gift economy to other creative fields, he is a member of Creative Commons Slovenija and interested in open databases, personal media and free hardware.
