Ants in Trees

 

I have been projecting things onto trees to see what happens.  These are ants that Alice made digitally.  Its interesting as you get very broken up images but interested and unexpected things start to happen.  I am also listening to the radio and lots of the news on radio 4 this morning was about following the science.

 It struck me that if we had listened to Ruskin and actually  respected our world more and not allowed science and technology to change everything then perhaps we could of avoided the gathering storm clouds.  I do probably think or rather believe that science may hold the answers to some of the problems it was part of creating. It is probably our best short term shot at averting complete climate catastrophe however I don't think science alone can save us. 

This is where the Treescape project sits in the attempt to build something different and question where and why science has and hasn't worked. Many scientist will say that the failure is not of scientific method, the science is clear and objective, the problem is with human actions and interpretations.  This is where Eco feminist new materialism and Barads propositions provide a strong critique.  There is no possible objective place to stand within Barads apparatus - no possible outside. 

This means that there is no actual middle ground between the two positions and science as a position outside seems to be gaining traction. I wonder if this is something the project can think about or if it is too left field.  I used to like all the sciart projects but I think artists like them more than scientists perhaps the key thing on the trees project is to progress slowly together and build something as we go along - Johans concrete utopia rather than try and buy in ideas and structures from outside.