Translator II: Grower is a robot that draws green lines of "grass" on gallery walls at varying heights depending on the amount of carbon dioxide it senses in the room. From creator Sabrina Raaf's artist's statement:
"The metaphoric relation is that grass needs CO2 in nature to grow. Here, my simulated grass needs the breath of human visitors in order to thrive. The height of the 'grass' directly reflects on the human activity or traffic in the space. The more people that visit that space, the more amenable that space is to my machine's ability to create. The relationship between Translator II: Grower, the space, and the public becomes a metabolic one – one of co-evolution. This piece makes visible how art institutions depend on their visitors to make them 'healthy' spaces for new art to evolve and flourish within."
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