From Roots to Pixels: Where Art Meets Ecology
In her public talk, artist Jane Tingley presented a fascinating view of the world through a tree's inner life. At CARBON, Tingley's exhibit featured eco-sensors attached to a tree in the gallery. These sensors gathered data around the tree, tracking its interactions with the environment. The data was then transmitted to an interactive installation in the gallery. Participants got to hear the artist share her inspiration for this work, and discovered what went behind its creation.
About the 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.