Hasta La Ideas

Queensland-based art, design and media studio Kuuki is currently showing Lumia: art/light/motion at the State Library of Queensland. The exhibition features a series of new media sculptures that lie squarely at the intersection of art, science and technology, a veritable menagerie of interactive critters—or, more broadly, organic forms.

Lumia addresses a broad range of biological and ecological themes, from “e. Menura supurba” (pictured at top), a robot lyrebird that learns behaviors through mimesis, to “Flower Animals” (above), which provide an abstracted real-time visualization of water temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef.

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