[Pollinator] more art meets science

[Vicki Wojcik]

>From Sarah Peebles - Toronto artist and pollinator enthusiast

 

A little more art meets science in the pollinator world. 

 

 

 

Victoria Wojcik, Ph.D.

 

Research Program Manager

Pollinator Partnership

423 Washington Street 5th Floor

San Francisco CA  94111

e: vw at pollinator.org

t: 415-362-1137

f: 415-362-3070

 

 

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From: Sarah Peebles [mailto:sarahpeebles at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 9:51 AM
To: vw at pollinator.org
Subject: more art meets science



Pollination Wunder Station <http://vimeo.com/39484206>  (video, 4 min.) 
at lower resolution at  <http://goog_434376476> ResonatingBodies  on
YouTube.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMEVuzeyfvk&list=UUj3cxKG5UE0tlpJV7lWGKdA&in
dex=1&feature=plcp>   


Audio
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/amplified-habitats/audio-bee-boot
hs/>  Bee Booths
amplified habitat installations for wild solitary bees and wasps - which are
cavity-nesting pollinators that come in many varieties, and which are not
honey bees. 

 <http://goog_1534984712> 
  Resonating Bodies - Pollination Wunder Station
<http://resonatingbodies.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/pollinationwunderstatio
n.jpg?w=500&h=275> 

One  Audio
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/amplified-habitats/audio-bee-boot
hs/>  Bee Booth,
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/amplified-habitats/audio-bee-boot
hs/the-tree-museum-items-may-shift-exhibition-gravenhurst-ontario-2011/>
Pollination Wunder Station . Created for The Tree Museum in Gravenhurst,
Ontario in 2011, now located at Lake St. George Field Centre of the Toronto
Region Conservation Authority, near Toronto. 


The booths, which are permanent outdoor installations, bring together sound,
sculpture, bioart and habitat interpretation. Both the art and the message
are equally important, creating a mental image of biodiversity while
refocusing the eye and the mind. Sort of like creating national geographic
adventures in real-time through art.

Illustrations of pollinators, plants and life cycles tell the story on the
outside of the cabinets. Inside, grooved boards covered with plexiglass
provide individual apartments, like condos, for the many varieties of
solitary bees and wasps naturally living nearby. Vibrational sensors
embedded in the planks are connected to an amplifier and act as very
sensitive microphones. Using headphones and a magnifying lens, visitors
experience a micro world which normally takes place in the dark, safely
spying on the bee's and wasp's nesting activities, life cycles, parasites,
and their dynamic relationships with the surrounding habitat. 


The Audio Bee Booth is one of a series of
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/> Resonating Bodies projects.
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/> Resonating Bodies projects
illuminate aspects of Canada's biodiversity through focusing on pollination
ecology, with special attention paid to the intersection of native bees,
habitat and coevolution of plants and pollinators of the Greater Toronto
Area and beyond.

 

 

S A R A H   P E E B L E S    sarahpeebles at gmail.com   T 416-778-8487

S t u d i o  E x c e l o   time-based art with a creamy filling
sarahpeebles.net <http://www.sarahpeebles.net/>   

R e s o n a t i n g  B o d i e s   resonatingbodies.wordpress.com
<http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/> 

Listen:  Peebles CBC Music <http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Sarah-Peebles>
Smash and <http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Smash-and-Teeny>  Teeny CBC Music

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