'Internet of Nature' - Panosphere 360 virtual tour
Project artists, Sylvia Grace Borda and J.Keith Donnelly /(B+D) created Internet of Nature by using Dundee's park and forest strategy plan to create their independent panosphere virtual nature artwork tour which showcases flora from the perspective of park wildlife. Such low angles have been used in order to showcase the variety of vegetation and flora that wild animals harvest, use for shelter in order to survive in urban city centres. While Google Street View is often associated with the car and road systems, the artists have opted to go off road - instead showcasing locations where the viewer needs either needs to physically walk into park to try to locate their views or can explore the online Panosphere 360 virtual tour to assume the view point of a small mammals or birds.
Borda and Donnelly - Artists' reflections on the creation of Dundee's 'Internet of Nature'
"What we are most inspired by is that the Internet of Nature consists of virtual panosphere tour artworks which chronicle each of Dundee’s civic parks but from unexpected vantage points. These landscape images are captured from low perspectives as seen from the sightline of park animals such as foxes, roe deer, ducks, hares, mice. in the landscape. As artists we have shifted the human-animal sightline with startling results. In walking across long swathes of park systems, we have come to know Dundee in a way few of its residents may have experienced directly.
Our ‘Internet of Nature’ plays with concepts of what is not typically seen online and therefore not explored.
Our panosphere 360 virtual tour portal is a first in terms of (1) placing art and using the perspective of Nature, and (2) creating an entire virtual park system from the real purposely embedded into Google Street View’e engine. Our explored urban parks and greenways – areas required us to walk into Nature verges and locations ‘off grid’ from road systems that are captured by Google Street View mounted cameras that scan across towns. Viewers local to Dundee are provided with opportunities to seek out these low angled perspectives that are caught at a particular moment and time of season. Our panosphere 360 virtual tour shifts online viewers sense of seasonal time, space and perspective invites folks to observe, and study Nature in greater detail in the same way someone may explore and admire Durer’s “The Great Piece of Turf” (1503).
As contemporary virtual artworks, the Internet of Nature accomplishes something distinctive than the likes of artist, Mishka Henner, known for downloading scenes from Google Street View. Our landscapes are specifically composed and uploaded into the Google Street View Engine for serendipitous discovery. In this reversed format, the artworks become similar part of an open digital commons –generously available for audiences on one of the most used search portals to navigate, experience, contemplate, and take-away a seeing component of vision from the view point of a wild animal of Dundee's city parks. Our online virtual artworks are designed to be observed in intimate detail and are about letting virtual viewers locating and framing their own tangible view of how a particular animal might encounter a part of the park as part of their daily routine.
Internet of Nature artworks are created both as conceptual animal portraits of Nature and as an archive of Dundee’s park systems. Critically in a time of climate change, these Nature portraits serve as aide memories of a changing space – an index of what is present. Will future temperature variations and extreme weather events change Dundee’s urban ecologies and wild life in the future? Much like the limitation of images themselves capturing a temporal moment, Internet of Nature opens up questions about how each of us see, chronicle and know what is present in our park systems."
Borda + Donnelly
Project artists, Sylvia Grace Borda and J.Keith Donnelly /(B+D) created Internet of Nature by using Dundee's park and forest strategy plan to create their independent panosphere virtual nature artwork tour which showcases flora from the perspective of park wildlife. Such low angles have been used in order to showcase the variety of vegetation and flora that wild animals harvest, use for shelter in order to survive in urban city centres. While Google Street View is often associated with the car and road systems, the artists have opted to go off road - instead showcasing locations where the viewer needs either needs to physically walk into park to try to locate their views or can explore the online Panosphere 360 virtual tour to assume the view point of a small mammals or birds.
Borda and Donnelly - Artists' reflections on the creation of Dundee's 'Internet of Nature'
"What we are most inspired by is that the Internet of Nature consists of virtual panosphere tour artworks which chronicle each of Dundee’s civic parks but from unexpected vantage points. These landscape images are captured from low perspectives as seen from the sightline of park animals such as foxes, roe deer, ducks, hares, mice. in the landscape. As artists we have shifted the human-animal sightline with startling results. In walking across long swathes of park systems, we have come to know Dundee in a way few of its residents may have experienced directly.
Our ‘Internet of Nature’ plays with concepts of what is not typically seen online and therefore not explored.
Our panosphere 360 virtual tour portal is a first in terms of (1) placing art and using the perspective of Nature, and (2) creating an entire virtual park system from the real purposely embedded into Google Street View’e engine. Our explored urban parks and greenways – areas required us to walk into Nature verges and locations ‘off grid’ from road systems that are captured by Google Street View mounted cameras that scan across towns. Viewers local to Dundee are provided with opportunities to seek out these low angled perspectives that are caught at a particular moment and time of season. Our panosphere 360 virtual tour shifts online viewers sense of seasonal time, space and perspective invites folks to observe, and study Nature in greater detail in the same way someone may explore and admire Durer’s “The Great Piece of Turf” (1503).
As contemporary virtual artworks, the Internet of Nature accomplishes something distinctive than the likes of artist, Mishka Henner, known for downloading scenes from Google Street View. Our landscapes are specifically composed and uploaded into the Google Street View Engine for serendipitous discovery. In this reversed format, the artworks become similar part of an open digital commons –generously available for audiences on one of the most used search portals to navigate, experience, contemplate, and take-away a seeing component of vision from the view point of a wild animal of Dundee's city parks. Our online virtual artworks are designed to be observed in intimate detail and are about letting virtual viewers locating and framing their own tangible view of how a particular animal might encounter a part of the park as part of their daily routine.
Internet of Nature artworks are created both as conceptual animal portraits of Nature and as an archive of Dundee’s park systems. Critically in a time of climate change, these Nature portraits serve as aide memories of a changing space – an index of what is present. Will future temperature variations and extreme weather events change Dundee’s urban ecologies and wild life in the future? Much like the limitation of images themselves capturing a temporal moment, Internet of Nature opens up questions about how each of us see, chronicle and know what is present in our park systems."
Borda + Donnelly
The artists have composed each 360' image to be seen both as a (1) panorama artwork and as (2) an immersive online experience from the vantage of a small mammal.
IMMERSIVE IMAGES TO EXPLORE
Each of Dundee City's Internet of Nature images below corresponds to an interactive scene or use the tiny url (https://tinyurl.com/ztd34e7h) to access all of the 50 plus Google Street View enabled webpages.
IMMERSIVE IMAGES TO EXPLORE
Each of Dundee City's Internet of Nature images below corresponds to an interactive scene or use the tiny url (https://tinyurl.com/ztd34e7h) to access all of the 50 plus Google Street View enabled webpages.
https://tinyurl.com/535yu67x
Finlathen Park was created where once derelict mills stood, and by in filling past industrial ponds and lades. The Dighty Burn was known as Scotland’s hardest working stream, with over 30 mills using its water. There were mill ponds, water channels, drying green and mill buildings with water wheels that all lined the stream's banks once upon a time. The Park has since been designed where a rehabilitated Dighty Burn meanders through the park, following it original course. The meadows are prone to flooding from the stream; however, this is what gives the park its character. Moist tolerant grasses are found under the shaded courses of trees. This is a popular park spot for hares and deer to forage for fresh grass shoots while hiding in the underline bush and shrubs.
Finlathen Park was created where once derelict mills stood, and by in filling past industrial ponds and lades. The Dighty Burn was known as Scotland’s hardest working stream, with over 30 mills using its water. There were mill ponds, water channels, drying green and mill buildings with water wheels that all lined the stream's banks once upon a time. The Park has since been designed where a rehabilitated Dighty Burn meanders through the park, following it original course. The meadows are prone to flooding from the stream; however, this is what gives the park its character. Moist tolerant grasses are found under the shaded courses of trees. This is a popular park spot for hares and deer to forage for fresh grass shoots while hiding in the underline bush and shrubs.
https://tinyurl.com/9vdwc4n
An engineered and built constructed land jetty in 1830 to being later the city's landfill from 1967-1996, Riverside Nature Park has had a long history of being associated with various heavy and polluting industries. Now a rehabilitated and consolidated site from 2011 to present, it is managed by the City, and has been successfully planted with trees and wildflowers to create an extensive set of wildlife corridors. The beaches are now also starting to support increased bird and fish populations alongside the Tay estuary river system. These daisies offer a shelter embankment where sandpipers can hide from overhead prey before returning to forage on the river's shores.
To learn more about Tayside estuary biodiversity visit
https://www.taysidebiodiversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Section2Coast1.pdf
https://www.dundeemaritime.co.uk/Birds
An engineered and built constructed land jetty in 1830 to being later the city's landfill from 1967-1996, Riverside Nature Park has had a long history of being associated with various heavy and polluting industries. Now a rehabilitated and consolidated site from 2011 to present, it is managed by the City, and has been successfully planted with trees and wildflowers to create an extensive set of wildlife corridors. The beaches are now also starting to support increased bird and fish populations alongside the Tay estuary river system. These daisies offer a shelter embankment where sandpipers can hide from overhead prey before returning to forage on the river's shores.
To learn more about Tayside estuary biodiversity visit
https://www.taysidebiodiversity.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Section2Coast1.pdf
https://www.dundeemaritime.co.uk/Birds
