DATA ECOLOGIES - INTRO
The Confluence Project
It would be fair to say that - for all involved, this project was a challenge - as its aims were, and are, numerous and diverse:
- for the creative process to engage with a place - an entire watershed,
- to engage with the Biosphere Reserve's stewards and environmental issues,
- to engage with innovative technologies and eco data-logging,
- to engage with communities and schools,
and in our case,
- to engage in a creative collaboration.
All of this in very limited time and resources allocation. By necessity then, it was a probing exercise, an experimental process, allowing space for serendipity and chance.
'Shadows and Undercurrents'; this is the title given to the strand of the Confluence Project undertaken by sonic artist, Jon Pigott and myself. We were interested in teasing out some vital, yet somewhat 'obscured' ecological threads within this special protected landscape setting. Making the invisible, visible.
