artificial nature

I am interested in replicating the nature and make it interact with human. It is just pleasurable to look at the artificial environment that people make out. It seems to me as an reproduction of the nature. I have this bad dreams and imaginations that in a near future, the nature will disappear and artificial will be replacing it. The real scenery of a tree in the windows are disappearing and are being replaced with the virtual image of a tree with monitors and screens. In my house, including the living room, there is only 1 window which its width is only 40" but I never open it. My TV is 30"and I watch it every day. I never raise a plant in my home, but I am thinking of making someday, a virtual plant, which I can give water and see it grow, and I expect that could also work as a humidifier as well.




Oasis

by Yunsil Heo, Hyunwoo Bang
(Shown in Siggraph 2008)
A touch screen, covered with sand lets the visitors to interact and herd the bacteria inside the screen. It seems just fun to look at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpFXMlqceM






Phantasm
by Takahiro Matsuo
This project is a screen of birds with a glowing ball. The visitors should hold the ball and the birds will flock, and as the light of the ball turns off, the screen of birds will disappear as it was just a dream.

http://www.monoscape.jp/index_e.html