Working closely with the Infracursions team, Animated Research helped create the exhibition for the event: Beyond Micro and Macro: Rethinking the Methods and Politics of Scale.

This involved artistic direction for the artwork and the exhibition storyline alongside the management of artwork production, from printing to installation.

“The works here utilise remote sensing representations of tree cover loss across Amazonia caused by various human activities. With these maps, we want to tell the story of deforestation in a different way. The images show how effects gradually build up over time, how they are a result of interconnected and layered activities, and how they can emerge from cumulative decisions across a wide space.

Through the creative manipulation of visual design that defies normative and objective representations of geographical terrains, whilst prompting the audience to switch between zooming in and zooming out, we bring attention to salient features of extractive activities represented in each of the maps. We merge cartography and art to translate scientific research into public dialogue that can narrate a story of place.“