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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Time has come. <b>We are GO for the Ars Electronica Festival 2020</b>, together with 120
other Ars Electronica Gardens around the world. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">During Ars Electronica Festival 2020, The Traveling Plant<i> </i>is preparing its journey by compiling a
<b>collective „Preparatory Logbook“.</b>
People are asked, in a caring hosting tradition, to tell the plant what it
could expect to discover and experience along it's voyage. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Until September
30th 2020, everyone is welcome to send his/her own contribution </span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">to </span><a href="mailto:travelingplant20@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">travelingplant20@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Avenir"> using the online form available on the project website. An edited
selection will be added to the invited texts.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><span style="font-family:Avenir">Please do read</span></b><span style="font-family:Avenir"> the information on the website (most of
your questions find answers there) and on the form. Contributions that do not
match the format or without proper copyright release form will be rejected.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir"><span> </span><b><i><span style="color:rgb(0,143,0)">Excerpts
from the logbook</span></i></b><span style="color:rgb(0,143,0)"><span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">The following quotes are from some of the contributions to the Logbook.
Full texts available on the project website.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">"Good morning TP! Is it ok to call you TP instead of traveling
plant? Here on Space Station, we use abbreviations a lot. I am in the midst of
preparing your arrival. We have this really nice greenhouse which will become
your home soon."<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Barbara Imhof<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">"Singapore is the strange child of the Southeast Asia
family. Many popular and trendy houseplants like Southeast Asia for its
humidity, warmth and bright sun, but those in Singapore find themselves
yearning. Our forests are made of concrete buildings and our rivers are made of
asphalt."<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Mengju Lin<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">"Imagine our traveling plant as a matrix for language invoking
deeper knowledge of ourselves, maybe even giving insight on the multiverse. Our
traveling plant is not just any plant, we are talking here about a plant which
is itself the vehicle allowing us to travel through time and space, through the
junction of our synapses to the core of our pineal gland where lucid dreams may
unfold."<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">"Dear traveling plant,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">you are going to love visiting Aotearoa - the land of the long white
cloud - that is, if you manage to get through immigration. See, New Zealand has
learned from the past when settlers brought plants and animals that are now
destroying the native ecosystem. But you are not a plant of an invasive
species, are you?"<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Anne Niemetz<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">"My name is Balapan, I’m an atomic lake. Yes, I am radioactive,
but I hope this won’t petrify you much. My name in Kazakh means a 'nestling'.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri">Aliya Sakhariyeva<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">"Swedes love Nature. Beware of them. They might eat
you up. Stop them from all that! Sharpen your Thorns! And you will travel
safely"<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 1cm;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Pierre Guillet de Monthoux<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Seeding this project
has brought us a lot of joy. We hope you will find as much pleasure and solace
contributing new texts or just reading the existing ones as we did. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">The Traveling Plant
is deliberately a slow process/project, we'll need some time to get back to you,
but we shall!<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">Enjoy!<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Avenir">The Seed Team: Annick
Bureaud, Tatiana Kourochkina, Marta de Menezes, Claudia Schnugg, Robertina
Šebjanič.<span></span></span></p>
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