The latest release from Vetro Editions is Neo Botanica – An Atlas of Artificially Generated Flora. This new publication from the Berlin-based publishing house presents a fresh take on the world of botanicals, showcasing the work of 32 contemporary artists who create gardens of imaginary flora.
Beautifully designed, and with over 260 botanical artworks from leading digital artists, Neo Botanica is a reimagining of the natural world – as you’ve never seen it before. Its pages bloom with artificial hybrid flowers and computer-coded bioforms in a collection of extraordinary new species. Presented as a traditional botanical book, the line between the real and the fake is blurred, familiar yet uncanny. Is it utopia or dystopia? It’s never quite clear. A key is also hidden inside each of the book’s pages. By using a free app, an extra dimension of the artworks can be accessed – unlocking an animation and bringing the images to life.
At a time when technology may seem like its working in antithesis to the natural world, this publication, produced by Luca Bendandi and Freya Marshall, aims to highlight how flora and fauna can form our future alongside our ability to innovate and collaborate. The publication presents the view that technology can be used to bring us closer to the natural world and protect it. Within Neo Botanica’s pages, both the natural and the artificial can coexist.
Using AI, CGI, computer code, and 3D modelling, the contributors have created artworks of imagined flora, extinct species, and hybrids, all dictated by algorithmic possibilities. Featured artists include; Refik Anadol, Tatsuru Arai, Luca Bogoni, Andrea Brewster, Andee Collard, Zach Darren Corzine, Mauro Cosenza, Linda Dounia, Stephan Duquesnoy, Elekktronaut (Bileam Tschepe), Entangled Others, Katherine Frazer, Hannes Hummel, Hypereikon, Joann, Markos Kay, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Jim Linear, David Lisser, Fuse*, Generative Art Studio, Phenomena Labs, Andréa Philippon, Andrés Reisinger, Anna Ridler, Monica Rizzolli, Nat Sarkissian, Drake Smith, Leonardo Solaas, Spacefiller (Alex Miller), Ivona Tau, and Aurèce Vettier.
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