Sky Islands
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| Creator | Catalina |
| Year | 2018 |
| Bio | Catalina is a visual artist and Biologist. She has been experimenting photography, film and animation of the Earth. Today her interest is the use of video and mapping projection to envision past, present and future ecosystems. She thinks that visualizing the history of Earths'ecosystems is the first step to bestrew dreams and create potential future realities with past and original environments in balance with current human civilization. As well, she works with live plant art installations focusing on natives or local plant species based on ecological history. Her philosophy of life is to contribute to environmental education and to plant seeds of consciousness to treat our planet with love and respect. |
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| Website | http://www.catalhinagiraldo.com/ |
Sky Islands: A time travel of the Andes Mountains is a 3D animation where science, art, and technology converge as a media to explore the visualization of one chapter of the ecological history of the Northern Andes Mountains. In the times we are living today, the anthropogenic global warming is affecting not only our human species but also the whole species and inhabitants of the planet Earth. For this reason, this project seeks to envision how the past times in the Andes mountains took at least 2.6 million years to create an impressive diversification of ecosystems and species. However, the transformation made by humans during the last five hundred years, and mainly the last hundred years after industrialization, has a magnitude able to make unique species got to extinct, species that have been evolving and diversifying for the last 2.6 million years in the northern Andes of South America. This visualization not only opens a door to travel in a time machine, from the Latest Pliocene to the Anthropocene as a first step toward opening minds and creating awareness, but also to implant a concern and post a question about how we can change the future and our relationship with the Andes and finally with the Earth in a way to mend the disaster our modern human species have been creating.