Artist Kasia Molga - beautiful multi-media participatory installations

“Floresta” is an interactive installation to be shown in at least 2 Brazilian cities and in one city of UK, engaging people in planting virtual trees and flowers as a result of viewers’ connection and communication with each other. Members of communities of these cities can participate in co-creating the garden together and witness transformation of this virtual landscape in real time. “Floresta” becomes a meeting point for members of communities, who together are united in the experience of keeping this garden “alive” by interacting with it and with each other.

 

People participate by sending a text messages. The content of these text messages can inspire and teach, so that not only they contribute with new plants to a garden, but also to a pool of knowledge.

“Floresta” encourages social interaction, collaboration and audience participation linking together communities from different geographical locations in an effort to work together to keep this virtual garden prospering and becoming a rain forest. It promotes communities’ empowerment, social inclusion and knowledge exchange by giving viewers a power to directly influence a visual manifestation of this artwork. Most importantly it promotes concepts of togetherness, collective responsibility and interconnectedness helping to remember that just like in the virtual garden, our common welfare depends on all of us.

Floresta is the result of an ongoing research on endangered plants from the Amazonia region. There is a plan to collaborate with botanic research institution in Brazil and not only to plant the “virtual” species, but also contribute to a real Amazonian forest.

Source:  http://www.kasiamolga.net/

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