[ISEA2012] Artist Talk: Ana MacArthur – MALLART SOLAIRE

Artist Statement

Taking observations from specific sites and their biological landscape can be used for insights and inspiration for energy generation possibilities. The project focuses on generating energy from the sun, with critical aesthetic and conceptual objectives being decentralized energy production, incorporation of early effective New Mexico solar design components, and geographical information. The interest explores specific biological organisms that utilize the sun with particularly unique methods, and selecting from them particular traits that give intuitive technological design insights to energy generating methods. The lecture will put this current preoccupation in context of earlier work that contributed an influence to this direction.