Lucid Dream: Sensing and Artistic Representation of Plant-Nature Interaction Based on Plants Biosignals

SHORT PAPER. The recent progress of modern science has enabled us to detect the physiological status of organisms through their bioelectric activity; this technique has been constantly applied to contemporary media art. However, exploring plants as a subject and allowing them to interpolate and hence perform art through biosignals remains to be further explored. Lucid Dream is an artwork in which inspection, displacement, and engagement of plant communities take place, shedding light on the subjective perception of plants, a peripheral subject that rarely comes to people’s attention. To achieve this, we entered a forest and applied an artificial intelligence-based learning system capable of interpreting the local plants' responses to wind and rain stimuli via their biosignals. Subsequently, we established an environmentally controlled space within the art museum. Here, we simulated and artistically represented the natural elements as perceived by the plants, using artificial machines driven by the plant-nature interaction model. As viewers enter this space, they can experience the plant-perceived natural environment, gaining a non-human perspective through direct engagement with plant life. Lucid Dream not only leverages intelligent computational technologies to comprehend the perceptual system of plants but also fosters cross-species sensory experiences, enhancing our understanding and expanding our perspective on the natural environment.