Broadway
A Conversation between Trees
Active Ingredient
Active Ingredient is a Nottingham based group of artists who work collaboratively to create interactive, playful interventions that merge art, science and technology to explore the world around us.
‘A Conversation between Trees’ is a year long project currently resident at Rufford Gallery & Country Park in Nottinghamshire, 13th September to 30th October. The project connects trees and creating links between forests in England with trees in the Atlantic Forest, on the edge of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Active Ingredient use environmental sensors connected to mobile phones placed in the trees to uncover the traces of a conversation between the trees and the results of our presence in the forests.
Each day, the story of the forests will be revealed through a set of clues, generated through a series of data readings, recording the temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, decibel and light levels. This data is fed into a computer programme, which creates a visual form of the data, so that visitors will literally see the dialogue taking place between the trees.
The artists describe this project as “an experience that takes the audience into an augmented forest, using a mobile phone as a lens to reveal that which we cannot see in the forest. The journey then takes us into a space where a climate machine interprets the scientific data collected from both trees, in the UK and Brazil“.
For Broadway, Active Ingredient present a dynamic projected artwork created from the data captured live from Rufford Country Park and Mata Atlantica.
You can visit the main 'A Conversation Between Trees' exhibition and see the work live at Rufford Gallery & Country Park until 30th October 2011
To find out more about the project and join the conversation please visit.
