mapping art and agriculture
2:59 pm in Uncategorized by Mirae Rosner (the memelab)
We’re in the midst of completing work on a first version of an Android smart phone app (built in Processing) that will detect GPS and allow users to record and playback sounds from their environment. We’re almost done work on the programming and are currently using it to create a sound walk for the art/farm kultivator, on Sweden’s idyllic island Oland.
Kultivator is a working example of the cooperation between art and agriculture. It is a farm and an art centre with many stories to tell and lots of perspective on the overlapping issues of environment, food production and consumption, the intersection of nature and culture, and human responsibility to the land.
We decided to interview the main players here - Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Mathieu Vrijman, Henric Stigeborn, and Mia Lindmark - and ask them to tell us about how the farm began, their interest in developing the connection between art and agriculture, and any relevant and important stories about the place.
They took us on little walks around the farm and pointed out significant places, which we logged as GPS points for the app. When we move on to Lithuania the end of this week, we plan to leave behind a walking tour for use by visitors to the farm.
More details about the app development itself will follow soon …
