BOTANIC GARDENS PROJECT
WORK-IN-PROGRESS BY ANNA MADELEINE RAUPACH
As part of a UNSW Linkage project, Anna was invited to produce creative work responding to the Royal Botanic Gardens Herbarium. She shared her work-in-progress, inviting us to listen to her thoughts while out in nature.
References
Critical Plant Theory:
The Plant Contract: Art’s Return to Vegetal Life by Prue Gibson
Monica Gagliano‘s work on plant cognition
Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous knowledge of Country, research by Michael-Shawn Fletcher
Linkage project:
UNSW Linkage grant for Environmental Aesthetics study led by Dr Prue Gibson, Professor Marie Sierra, and Dr Sigi Lottkandt.
Data references:
Serpentine Podcast with James Bridle: Back to Earth, Sowing the Seeds referencing Suzanne Simard
Restore and Renew Project, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens including maps comparing environmental conditions from now to 2070, eg:
Art references:
Daniel Crooks’ time slice videos, eg. Train No.10
Anna Ridler, Circadian Bloom
Image effect examples:
Reference/example: constraint.systems
Some initial image effect experiments:
Selective colour:
Inverse:
Sine wave motion:
