On gastronomic links between exotic species. In a globalized society the increasing intensity of transport offers many opportunities to travel. Ship logbooks have featured the invited and uninvited...
The field of zoomusicology is strictly speaking dedicated to the study of the musical aspects of sound or communication produced and received by animals. After seeing this enjoyable clip featuring jazz...
For millennia humans have used oxen and horses to move our tools. In the digital age this group is rapidly expanding. A short post on epizoic media in animal journeys. Michiko Nitta's excellent...
A selection of interesting recent or upcoming titles worth keeping an eye out for: On protecting ecosystems: Media, Ecology and Conservation, using the media to protect the world's wildlife and ecosystems, John Blewitt. Rambunctious Garden, Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World, Emma Marris. On nature and technology: Handbook of Natural Computing, Grzegorz Rosenberg, Thomas Back, Joost N. Kok. Botanic Code, Jorinde Voigt. Insect Media, an Archaeology of Animals and Technology, Jussi...
Non-humans are fitted with wearable technology, in past decades it has predominantly been GPS, but what happens when they start carrying rich mobile media like we do? In its original set-up groWorld...
First of a series of posts on iPanvitalism; a collection of Suiseki or Penjing stones. Suiseki are traditional Japanese viewing stones. They also appear in China as Penjing, tray-sized landscapes...
The corporate battle over Smarter Cities is spreading to a planetary scale this month. Several gigantic projects are unveiled that map... well everything. A Google service that came online during december is Earth Engine. It claims to open up masses of (historic) data on the biosphere gathered through satellites. The thing with satellite monitoring is that it doesn't usually work for monitoring a small selection of species or indeed a single species. Another absolutely massive project is undertaken...
The complextity of the natural world is made sense of by species in many different ways. Biologists and enthusiasts count species on foot and track patches of wildlife with sensorkits. Satellites are...
The standard way of mapping ecosystems is by location. In itself this represents a rather poor dataset, because it only records GPS coordinates; a place. By collecting GPS-data a sighting of an organism...
IBM lists many things for their Smarter Cities concept but not the health of the ecosystem. If we could make information available about the level of biodiversity and the quality of the local ecosystem, could this become an economic factor? Say for instance your looking at property to buy, wouldn't you want to know if it is situated in a healthy environment? If this data were available on mobile devices, would it influence property value or even be an incentive to improve its well-being? It's true the Smart Cities...
Theun will be hosting a session on Augmented Ecology during Pixelache 2011 : Is there still a privatelife for plants? And we would love to invite (Finnish) stakeholders from many different backgrounds to this discussion. Ecologists Farmers Birdwatchers Plantlovers Landscape planners Foragers Media artists Designers Hackers and any member of the general public with an interest in ecology or the mapping, recording and visualising thereof.
FoAM based research and prototyping project looking at: how the tagosphere connects with the biosphere.
News on augmented ecology, citizen science, eco-monitoring, biodiversity & new media via twitter: @IforAE
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