Fionnáin @ephemeral@mograph.social

Updated #introduction (2021):

I make art.

Sometimes I write.

My work is about #networks , including technology systems and complex more-than-human relationships.

I create interactive art installations using wood, paint, drawings, light, electronics, code, sensors, film & sound.

I always collaborate, including with animals, fungi, humans, trees, mould & birds.

I try to make my work accessible and with low environmental impact (please tell me if I fail).

My body is in Ireland.

I'm hopeful.

After a year of postponements and sticking to a 5km radius from my home, I will finally be travelling to work at Kielderhead Wildwood Project, Northumberland UK, to collaborate with with foresters, fungi, ecologists, mycologists, electronics, computers, trees and artists on a project about complex networks.

So far, this project has resulted in ten blog posts, one book chapter, five short videos, and an interactive installation. And there will be more.

Project info: https://varc.org.uk/entwined/artists/shane-finan/

I realised recently that the different publications, video and research from my 'wood wide web' project were a little scattered all over the internet, so I've created an archive page where to link everything together, to find everything a littler more easily:

https://shanefinan.org/visual_art_pages/woodwideweb.html

(reposted because of a typo on the link!)

First in a new series of web art pieces about trees in tubes:

https://shanefinan.org/visual_art_pages/WWW/tubular0.html

What would it be like to start your life without wind?

How could you explain it to your kin?

How does it affect your relationship with other species: the insects, mammals, and fungi?

New #mastoart #webart

All images have individual descriptions (I hope they're good enough)

Part of a project with Kielderhead Rewilding Project, Northumberland Wildlife Trust, Kielder

#trees #rewilding #planting

Feminist Principles of the Internet - Version 2.0 | Association for Progressive Communications
https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/feminist-principles-internet-version-20

(via Caroline Sinders' excellent essay in The Critical Makers Reader published by the Institute of Network Cultures)

Views through tubes.

In its early stage, a planting project in an area with lots of foraging animals means the young trees need some human intervention to get a healthy start. This becomes the aesthetic of a new forest.

The next generation of trees will not know how to explain these tube years to their children.

Taken at Kielderhead Reilsing Project, Kielder, UK, as part of the 'Wood Wide Web' art project.

#art #photography #forest #trees #rewilding

Growth needs a helping hand in the land of humans, deer and goats.

Neighbouring trees in tubes grow at different rates.

#trees #rewilding

"I eat Kleenex for breakfast, and I use soft hygienic Weetabix to dry my tears."

Polly Styrene (X-Ray Spex), "My mind is like a plastic bag", 1977

Never Just a Tree

Six videos in and I'm pretty proud of how tidy this is looking on the partner vimeo page. Planning four more at least.

All videos have English subtitles.

https://vimeo.com/channels/shanefinanvarc/

Tomorrow I travel to Kielderhead Wildwood Project, UK, to begin a month-long #art residency about networks, linking mycorrhizal ( #myco ) networks in forests to community networks and technological networks.

In advance, I have published the sixth in a series of videos and text pieces for this project. This one is about the importance of place in social connections.

Video: https://tube.tchncs.de/videos/watch/c9779db1-282d-4e56-a641-df9143605b40

Article: http://varc.org.uk/shane-finan-necessity-community/

Full series (via the residency at VARC): https://vimeo.com/channels/shanefinanvarc/

Any recommendations for Android on-screen keyboards that have good language capabilities (particularly interested in any that might have Irish/Gaeilge)?