Seasonal Currents explores seasonal computing through a living system built from e-waste and plants. Discarded circuit boards, wires, and broken electronic fragments become the ground in which plants grow. Rather than presenting e-waste as toxic residue, the project reimagines it as material that can re-enter ecological cycles, where what was extracted from the earth begins to return to it.
Water circulates continuously through the system. A hose delivers water to the plants, raising the surrounding humidity. When the humidity increases, a sensor causes the animation on the screen to glitch and fragment. The digital image becomes unstable in response to environmental change, revealing computation as something affected by seasonal conditions rather than fixed and autonomous.
The water that nourishes the plants is collected and returned to a water container, forming a closed loop. By merging living growth with obsolete electronics, Seasonal Currents questions the boundary between the organic and the artificial, suggesting a future where computation follows ecological rhythms—cyclical, adaptive, and alive.
