CLEO
Technology
Photoresistors
Vibration Motors
Bristles
ATTINY85
3DPrinting
Exhibitions
Dates
2019 & 2024
En esta casa, solamente cucarachas biónicas.
Cybernetic Lifeforms for Environmental Observation [CLEO], is a speculative organisms that reacts uniquely to light stimuli as survival strategies: some seek light, others darkness, and a few cast illumination to for their fellow entities. The organism features a cohort of BristleBots— a simple type of robot that navigate their surroundings using vibration and flexible bristles for movement. The bristle bots are designed to emulate cockroaches in their form, agility, and behavior. These creatures, often perceived with disgust for their filth and parasitism, demonstrate remarkable resilience in metropolises such as New York and Bangkok.
CLEO exposes our relationships with technology and the Nature. We lean on technology as “The Future”, yet we crave for connection with nature, paradoxically we are disgusted by its untamed aspects and raw forms. Especially when these organisms are proxies to our own human landscapes, ecosystems, and existence.
In materializing our relationship with the “pests”, CLEO questions the meaning of being disgusted by something that would not exist without us? And most important, what relationships do we have to raw forms of nature residing inside ourselves?
