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Hidden Ecologies is a field experiment of architect
Cris Benton, microbiologist Wayne Lanier, and
independent curator Marina McDougall. Fusing
views assembled through aerial kite photography with onsite micro-cinematography,
Hidden Ecologies maps three transitional
salt-marsh geographies of the San Francisco
Bay.
Equipped with a mobile field laboratory
of notebooks, field microscopes, GPS
devices,
and an array of cameras, the team
works
in the field to record aspects of the
local
environment that lie beyond usual
perception,
such as
historical landscape
features, the
invisible
composition
of micro-communities, or forgotten cultural histories. Field
research is
joined with archival materials and cultural
commentary on a website designed as a living organism,
inviting annotations from within as well as outside the team.
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