{"id":1370,"date":"2020-02-05T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:28:04","slug":"tega-brain-premieres-deep-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/tega-brain-premieres-deep-swamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tega Brain Premieres Deep Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esteemed IDM Full time faculty, Tega Brain is premiering her <a href=\"http:\/\/tegabrain.com\/Deep-Swamp\">Deep Swamp<\/a>, a triptych of terrariums with wetland plants governed by artificially intelligent software agents. The agents, Nicholas, Hans, and Harrison, watch their swampy territories \u2014 adjusting light, water flow, fog, and nutrients \u2014 to try to engineer their environments for different goals. Harrison aims for a natural looking wetland, Hans is trying to produce a work of art, and Nicholas simply wants attention. The role of AI in sustaining living plants is also explored in AlphaGarden by&nbsp;<strong>Ken Goldberg<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<strong>AlphaGarden Collective.<\/strong>&nbsp;AlphaGarden is a living garden located at the University of California at Berkeley that is tended to by a robot controlled by an AI that is learning both from simulation and from human demonstrations. Visitors can remotely follow the process through a screen in the exhibition space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opening Reception Thursday, February 6,&nbsp;<strong>6-8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday, March 26,&nbsp;<strong>6:30-8:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tour with the curator and artists Tega Brain and Brett Wallace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show and all tours take place in the Kellen Gallery,<strong>&nbsp;2 West 13th Street<\/strong>, ground floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information about the show can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.newschool.edu\/pressroom\/pressreleases\/2019\/AI.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esteemed IDM Full time faculty, Tega Brain is premiering her Deep Swamp, a triptych of terrariums with wetland plants governed by artificially intelligent software agents. The agents, Nicholas, Hans, and Harrison, watch their swampy territories \u2014 adjusting light, water flow, fog, and nutrients \u2014 to try to engineer their environments for different goals. Harrison aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idm.engineering.nyu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}