11 mins 27 secs
An evolving installation launched by Chels Marshall and Lisa Roberts at the Boden Research Conference 2018, ‘Ecological Surprises and Rapid Collapse of Ecosystems in a Changing World’
Friday May 4, 2018, Shine Dome, Canberra, Australia
“Totemic relationships inform and inspire Indigenous peoples as Landscape ecologists. This knowledge is revealed and passed on through the arts. ” Chels Marshall, Gumbaygnirr scientist, 2018
The Boden Research Conference 2018, ‘Ecological Surprises and Rapid Collapse of Ecosystems in a Changing World’ hosted the first presentation of an evolving “Gumbaygnirr Story”, a video installation being developed by Lisa Roberts with Chels Marshall. Animation was used to combine expressions of understanding shared though Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural arts and sciences.
CREDITS
Production/Drawing/Art tracing/Animation:
Lisa Roberts. Living Data, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Gumbaygnirr Story/Art/Video:
Chels Marshall. Australian National University (ANU)
Gumbaygnirr Voice:
Michael Jarrett
Gumbaygnirr Swimmer:
Lacey Froglet Butterfly Edwards
Possum skin drumming:
Laura McBride
Motion capture:
Jason Benedek (UTS)
Special effects:
Jason Benedek
Underwater video/sound:
William Gladstone (UTS)
Ocean gesture:
Vikki Quill
Seagrass swimmers:
Bliss Boaden
Isobel Cummings
Shona Wilson
Errand into the Maze gesture:
Barbara Cuckson (Rozelle School of Visual Arts)
Neptune’s necklace gesture:
Lisa Roberts
Sea levels rising, 1920-2000:
John Church et at. (CSIRO)
Antarctic sea ice data:
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD)
Antarctic krill sex data:
So Kawaguchi
Steve Nichol
Andrew Constable
Rob King
Graham Ewing
(AAD)
Microscopy:
Susan Fenech (UTS)
Flow cytometry:
Angus Rawle (UTS)
Beware of Pedestrians: Digital puppets:
Lisa Roberts with Michael Lynch (UTS)
Music:
Matthew Dewey
Excerpt from ex Oceano,
Symphony No.2, 2013
Courtesy Sue Anderson,
Lynchpin – the Ocean project