The intention of this series of posts is to develop some of the philosophical threads that will bind the project.

Forest Art Intelligence (FAI) comprises

1. 1.  A regenerating forest; which is also regarded as the project’s meta-artwork

   2. a series of planned, temporal actions that our art and science team take to encourage that forest’s regeneration.

   3. a series of on-site hybrid creations (named ‘Art Intelligences’) invented as the project unfolds that evolve to occupy their own ecological ‘niches’ that can assist supporting that forest’s growth.

   4. a public engagement strategy/campaign to
      – illuminate the forest’s unique processes of intelligent natural regrowth
      – promote an more inclusive definition of intelligence that engages with  the non-human world.

The FAI project therefore poses the following key questions:

• How to develop a series of speculative, embedded forms, called ‘Art Intelligences’, capable of growing and evolving alongside a regenerating forest that can ALSO benefit that forest’s health.

• How might such Art Intelligences slowly find, and then occupy, their own intelligent ‘niches’, within that forest’s ecology

• How might such artworks bring attention to the extraordinary non-human intelligences that underpin natural systems AND harness them to inspire and direct this experimental sci-art process.