Art 2.0 Edit
Bio Mimetic Butterflies

Paintings? Rubbish. Sculpture? So last century. Too static, too didactic, too one-way. There’s a new medium in town kids: technology-harnessing art that uses modern wizardry to create enhanced, interactive aesthetic experiences. Take Boston-based creative hotshop The Barbarian Group, which created these beautiful delicate butterflies, using laser cut paper, some nifty silent motors, movement sensors and algorithmic computer program.

The effect is really quite eerie. Walk into the room and near the cased butterflies and they’ll flutter silently and randomly according to your movement, an eerie use of technology that mimics real butterflies, but in something clearly artificial. While 400-odd years ago we’d have marveled at the veracity, the sheer lifelikeness of Caravaggios work, in an era of jaded gallery-goers it takes interaction, facilitated by technology to provide that level of wonder.

Biomimetic Butterflies