What colour would a forest be if it were only one colour?

The multi-channel video installation shows tens of thousands of images taken over several years by scientific observation cameras in a forest in Finland and other locations – as well as the average RGB colour values of the vegetation.
The point of departure of the investigation was a conversation with the forest researcher Pasi Kolari. Being asked by the artist if there is such a thing as beautifull data, the scientist showed a statisttical curve that he loved, representing the incoming and outgoing greeness of a forest.

The left channel shows the awakening and the sleeping of the trees over a year by showing a monochrome color field. The color is precisely calculated and reveals the average colour value in RGB of the landscape of each webcam image, generated by a tailor-made software by Christian Dietz. Rapidly changing glimpses reflect the colour palette of the nature, days and nights as well as the year’ s cycle.

The sound track is echoing the blinking colour narration - composed and performed by Michael Moser.

In cooperation with: Pasi Kolari and the SMEAR Station Hyytiälä Finland, University Helsinki and Climate Whirl.
Software: Christian Dietz
Sound: Michael Moser
Data: Pasi Kolari and Mikko Peltoniem
and the phenocam netwrok
With friendly support of: Stiftung Kunstfonds