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# Ornamental Bug Garden
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/ornamental-bug-garden/
- Published: 2005-02-07T20:53:49.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-31T10:21:24.000Z
- Description: Even if you understand nothing about the Ornamental Bug Garden piece, its sheer beauty is such that you√Ǭ¥d want to take…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Even if you understand nothing about the [Ornamental Bug Garden](http://www.boredomresearch.net/obg/?ref=protein.xyz) piece, its sheer beauty is such that you´d want to take the installation and install it in your bedroom to gaze at it during hours.

![](http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/transbore.jpg)

Behind a glass slab hanging on the wall, an ecological system works as a living kinetic painting. Below branches, generated with Lindenmayer algorithms, is a delicate ecosystem where tiny shapes jump around and onto each other, spores explode, and bubbles float like pollen. OBG001 is the first part of superbly titled [Boredom Research](http://www.boredomresearch.net/?ref=protein.xyz)´s series of wall hanging digital self-contained systems. The works combine elements of video games, pachinko machines, ornamental gardens and artificial life to explore relationships between scientific modelling techniques and ornamental gardens. As OBG´s colonies of tiny machines catapult around their garden, collisions trigger sounds and compose an incidental sound piece. OBG is a close system like the earth taking only energy as its input other than that nothing enters or leaves. There is no human interaction with the system. Via [near near future](http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/004448.php?ref=protein.xyz)