On exhibition at iMAL - Center for Digital Cultures and Technology (Brussels) May - September 2024

Anthos is an immersive, interactive sound and light installation that highlights the importance of pollinators and demonstrates our anthropogenic effect on them. Sensors inside the installation register environmental conditions affected by the audience - the rising and falling of CO₂ emissions, temperature, and humidity. Following biodiversity models, these audience induced changes influence the complex system being projected visually and sonically. The higher the number of people inside the space, the greater the effect on the system. The network's ability to maintain an equilibrium, thrive, decline, or ultimately fail, is a product of human intervention. 

Calculating and generating visuals and audio in real-time, Anthos demonstrates how the climate crisis is putting ever more strain on natural and fragile plant-pollinator relationships.

Collaborating artists: Visual Artist, Giovanni Randazzo, Bogatá, Colombia; Artist/ Physicist, Yiannis Kranidiotis, Athens, Greece.

Collaborating scientists: Irene Guerrero Fernandez, PhD Ecologist with a focus on Farmland Biodiversity; Ana Montero Castaño Wild Bee expert; Alba Bernini, expert in data analysis and environmental system modelling. From the Sustainable Resources, Food Security Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre

Funded by the European Commission Joint Research Centre SciArt Resonances IV programme.