This Digital Vegetables art installation will light up your view on veggies
The Digital Vegetables art installation is a touch-activated LED greenhouse.
Digital Vegetables is part of Tokyo’s Midtown Design Touch 2017 exhibition, which is running until 5 November, and was created by a digital company named Party.
These guys are straight to the point as they really have created something out of a psychedelic dream temple, or rather, a psychedelic greenhouse.
Throughout the years, small-plot farming has decreased majorly in Tokyo, with this art installation aiming to connect people back to their green thumb roots.
“Start off by touching the seven types of lives now growing strong in the soil,” the instructions say, encouraging visitors to feel the 7 different vegetables showcased, including tomatoes, carrots, mini radishes and cabbages.
Rad rad radishes!
Upon touching the veggies, a touch detection system fires off a light and music show unique to each veggie.
The different sound effects were mixed by sound designer Ray Kunimoto. He took recordings of natural sounds such as touching leaves, eating fruit, and rubbing seeds and mixed them with a variety of orchestral instruments to create a melody.
“Tomatoes are violin, carrots are trumpet, cabbages are oboe, mini radishes are flute, sweet potatoes are piano, eggplants are harp and pumpkins are clarinet,” the website explains.
The aim of the installation is to inspire guests to look at veggies in a deeper way other than just a food source.
An interaction where you can take in an object in its entirety creates a strong sense of awareness and a deeper ‘bond,’ and there’s nothing wrong with it. On the contrary, it’s really beautiful.
Here’s a brief video of the Digital Vegetables art installation currently set up in Tokyo, Japan until the 5th of November.
