About: Kate Hartman is an interactive artist whose work ranges from Muttering Hats to plants that make phone calls. Her individual and collaborative projects span the fields of video, electronics, fashion, and telephony and has been exhibited at Sony Wonder Technology Labs, the Future Fashion Show, Ask the Robot, HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth), and the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference.

Botanicalls allows plants to place phone calls for human help. When a plant on the Botanicalls network needs water, it can call a person and ask for exactly what it needs. When people phone the plants, the plants orient callers to their habits and characteristics. Call 212.202.8348 to hear more about each of the plants.