Perach is a biofeedback installation developed in 2021 that translates the internal electrical activity of plants into live audiovisual form. The work uses sensing hardware and data translation to make vegetal signaling tangible to human audiences.
Instead of representing plants as passive subjects, the installation treats them as active participants in the system. Electrical fluctuations become changes in image, sound, and rhythm, allowing visitors to encounter plant activity as a live, responsive presence.
Within the studio's practice, Perach marks an important bridge between ecological attention and technical interface design. It combines IoT devices, biofeedback, custom audiovisual software, and exhibition staging to produce a quiet but direct encounter with nonhuman signals.
Artwork
Perach allows visitors to see and sense the interior electrical activity of plants through an installation that makes vegetal signals spatially present.
By tapping into bioimpedance, soil, light, EMG, and related inputs, the project approaches plant intelligence not as metaphor, but as something measurable, legible, and affectively present within a public setting.
System
The installation combines sensing hardware with a translation layer for public interaction.
- Multi-sensor IoT device capturing plant and environmental signals
- Bioimpedance, soil, light, and EMG data pipelines
- Web-based audiovisual interface for live interpretation and display
Short Description
Perach - a biofeedback installation translating the electrical activity of living plants into audiovisual form through sensing hardware, IoT devices, and responsive display.
Long Description
Perach is a biofeedback installation developed in 2021 that translates the internal electrical activity of plants into live audiovisual form. The work uses sensing hardware and data translation to make vegetal signaling tangible to human audiences.
Instead of representing plants as passive subjects, the installation treats them as active participants in the system. Electrical fluctuations become changes in image, sound, and rhythm, allowing visitors to encounter plant activity as a live, responsive presence.
Within the studio's practice, Perach marks an important bridge between ecological attention and technical interface design. It combines IoT devices, biofeedback, custom audiovisual software, and exhibition staging to produce a quiet but direct encounter with nonhuman signals.
Artist
Ronen Tanchum
Collaboration
Developed in collaboration with Eden Offer
Format
Biofeedback installation, sensing hardware, live audiovisual translation
