FORESTA-INCLUSIVE (EX)TENDING-TOWARDS
How do we visualise the delicate dance of trees?
In Foresta-Inclusive (ex)tending-towards, artist Jane Tingley used digital technologies to sense and interpret a hidden experience of trees. We had eco-sensors attached to a tree outside the room (At the Science Gallery Bengaluru), which tracked its interactions with the environment. The data collected included particulate matter in the air, wind speed, carbon dioxide levels, and light gathered from the tree’s immediate surroundings. This installation, borne out of the data, offered us an appreciation of the vitality of the natural world.
Supported by Canada Council for the Arts and York University, Toronto.
Medium: Installation, Projection, Cork, Electronic Sensors, Sensor Hub
Year: 2024
Process
Studies of protozoa, to inform the creation of the sculptural pods.
A 3D model of the cork pod.
Studies of protozoa, to inform the creation of the sculptural pods.
Slicing the cork on openSCAD.
After the laser cutting, the slices are laminated together. This process involves gluing the pieces together in order to rebuild the pods in the real world.
Studies of protozoa, to inform the creation of the sculptural pods.
Studies of protozoa, to inform the creation of the sculptural pods.
Laser cutting the cork pod.
Team
Jane Tingley
Artist
Jane Tingley is an artist, curator, director of the Sympoietic Living Ontologies Lab (SLOlab) and Associate Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her studio work combines traditional studio practice with new media tools—and spans responsive/interactive installation, performative robotics, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/installations.
Her works are interdisciplinary in nature and explore the creation of spaces and experiences that push the boundaries between science and magic, interactivity and playfulness, and offer an experience to the viewer that is accessible both intellectually and technologically. Using distributed technologies, her current work investigates the hidden complexity found in the natural world and explores the deep interconnections between the human and non-human relationships.
