A research building an electricity producing garden. The project creatively explores the collaborative possibilities between natural ecosystems and digital systems.
The garden produces electricity by harnessing the metabolism of anaerobic bacteria living in wet soil, using a technology called Microbial Fuel Cells. Each container acts as a battery and is equipped with electrodes that harvest electrons emitted by the bacteria. The plants and insects in the garden feed the bacteria, allowing electricity generation to continue as long as the ecosystem thrives.

Sunjoo Lee is an interdisciplinary artist working in crossovers of art, technology, and ecology, based in the Netherlands and in South Korea. Her fascination is in diverging the use of electronics and digital tools beyond human interest. Her works often explore topics such as; more-than-human philosophy, emergence, biomimicry, future forms of symbiosis, and permacomputing.
Sunjoo often collaborates with biologists, ecologists and engineers to develop artistic research and create multimedia installations promoting hybridity and partnership of biosphere and technosphere.
Her works have been exhibited in various locations including Ars Electronica Festival and Kunstvereniging Diepenheim. She is a co-founder of research collective Getbol Lab, and is currently an artist in residence at Creative Coding Utrecht.