Allison Kudla has created a system that uses a custom-built computer-controlled table to “print” bio-architectural constructions out of moss and seeds. Suspended in a clear gel growth medium, the moss begins to grow and the seeds sprout. My understanding is that the patterns that are created are algorithmically generated and are to be seen as representing not only cellular growth, but illustrative of urban growth or “sprawl” thereby connecting the subjects of city and organism. Watching this process takes days – you return to it intermittently and notice that it resembles a surface fractal (similar to the Eden growth model) that spreads in the same way that a city expands fractally.
(thanks to Allison Kudla)