Eden3: The Breath of a Tree
This is an interdisciplinary artist-led climate change research initiative. Artists and musicians work with philosophers, technologists and scientists to monitor respiration and photosynthesis in trees. The work results in a multi-media experience that links imagination and perception in pursuit of specific experience of another living thing as it reacts and adjusts to the quantity and impact of CO2 in cities. The research and development began in 2008 and is expected to continue through two more stages; increasing the scope, scale and public impact of the systems through 2013. The proof of concept system (the Plein Air easel) and a video that reveals the philosophical intent of the project has been recently completed and exhibited in Aberdeen Scotland. Various publications, residencies and lectures are outlined below and described in detail throughout this website.
EXHIBITON
Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse
2 JULY THROUGH 14 AUGUST 2010, Aberdeen Scotland
Eden3 PUBLICATIONS and ARTICLES
Goto., R., Collns, T. (2010) Plein Air: The Ethical and Aesthetic Impulse. Aberdeen: Peacock Visual Arts, (exhibition catalogue.)
Goto., R., Collns, T. (2010 forthcoming) Eden3 – The ethical, aesthetic impulse. In Brady, E. And Pheminster, P. (Eds.) Embodied Values and the Environment. London: Springer-Verlag.
Goto, R. (2010 forthcoming) Plein Air and Emergent Aesthetic and Ethical Impulse. in Montag, D., and Tyzlik-Carver, M. (Eds.) AIAS 2010 Proceedings. Falmouth UK: University College Falmouth.
Eden3 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND ARTS RESIDENCIES
Summer 2010, T.Collins, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
Winter 2009, T. Collins, M.Dalgeish, R. Goto, Crop Technology Unit, University of Wolverhampton
Summer 2008, R.Goto and T.Collins, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
Eden3 CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Feb. 2010, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
Oct. 2009, AIAS Conference University College Falmouth
June 2009, Arts and Forestry Commission, Day Conference, London
May 2009, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton
May 2008,
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh
Oct. 2008, Landscape Institute West Midlands
Nov. 2008, Grey's School of Art, Robert Gordon University
