After much deliberation, it became clear to me that the artworks at the site at SERF were very much still in development, and therefore a planned showing for ISEA 2024 on site would not be feasible.

Instead, I decided to access a Lidar (laser scan) aerial and terrestrial data set of the site – that had been prepared by the QUT REF Operation team/Dr. Dmitry Bratanov – and use it to design and render an aesthetic, part representational, part symbolic  fly through of both the passive regeneration and wetland sites –  that would introduce the site/project to audiences at ISEA.  The soundtrack included voices of Dr. David Tucker and Dr. Gabrielle Lebbink conducting the 2023 plant survey, and included the call of the Quail that had been so influential in the setup of the site. The  work – called Analog Intelligence, will be  included in the juried ISEA exhibition ‘Constellations’ during June 2024. It will be accompanied by other smaller screens showing different media from the project.

The ISEA page for the event within Constellations is here – Part of the text reads ..

This video installation (Analog Intelligence) speaks to the projects’ first tentative steps – into uncovering and bringing to attention the extraordinary natural intelligences of a land in self-repair after decades of clearing, providing the inspiration for a non-extractive, hybrid art-science work capable of growing and evolving with the forest, whilst also actively benefitting it.

Analog Intelligence explores the future artwork site by land, air and soil, speaking poetically to early findings into conceiving loosely coordinating site-wide artworks, able to bring the forests’ regeneration process to public focus, whilst finding and occupying their own intelligent, beneficial ‘niches’ within that re-emerging forest ecology.

And here is the dedicated  page on my own site embodiedmedia.com Further imagery will be posted here in due course once the work is installed.

Ill be talking about this work in this event too – ANAT Synapse in Conversation :: 20 Years of Art + Science Collaboration – 29 June 2024, Sunshine Coast Field Trip, University of the Sunshine Coast, ISEA2024 Everywhen.

I also  agreed to speak during IEA 20024 at a Leonardo Laser Talk  around ideas connected to the project, (Tuesday, June 25, 2024, from 3.30-5.30 pm, AEST at the Plaza Auditorium, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, specifically talking to the power of such artworks within the promotion of ecological regeneration of First Nations country talking on a panel with Brett Leavy and Dr Kelly Greenop. The panel discussion will delve into innovative approaches for advocating, preserving, and celebrating Australian Culture and Country in the digital age, highlighting the transformative power of the arts as a catalyst for social and ecological change.