The Data Garden by Grow Your Own Cloud (GYOC) is a new type of data infrastructure that promotes unification between people, ecosystems and technology.

Artists: Cyrus Clarke & Monika Seyfried

The installation features plants encoded with data, converting digital data such as text, JPEGs and MP3s into a biological format, DNA, using ACGT rather than binary. Within the installation, the plants’ DNA is decoded in real time using the latest genetic sequencing technologies, and displayed in space, revealing hidden messages.

Working with nature to alleviate the threat of ‘data warming‘, the Data Garden invites visitors to experience a new materiality around data, and explore a world in which data storage is truly green, and exists as an accessible public resource that is shareable within communities.

Learn more: www.growyourown.cloud

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Data Garden Project Team: Artists - Cyrus Clarke, Monika Seyfried Biological Systems - Jeff Nivala Architecture - abNormal Graphic Design - Kuba Bogacki, Krzysztof Seyfried, Olek Znosko Fabrication - Mike Hart, Rachael Starbuck, Ted Carey Photography - Monika Seyfried Cinematographer - Joseph Postiglione Data Garden User in Film - Sarah Rose Knight