Living Data
Visualisations
Krill sex Animation reveals the first scientific observation and analysis of the entire mating dance
of Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill).
Artist Lisa Roberts worked with scientists investigating the life of Krill deep in the ocean. Lisa Roberts' drawings, based on a very blurry video from the bottom of the ocean, articulates what she could see. She focused on understanding the 'dance' to the point that she could draw and then animate it. Lisa was not illustrating something scientists already knew. Rather by working with scientists, her drawing and animation skills enabled everyone to understand something no-one hitherto knew. She ended up as co-author of a paper in the Journal of Plankton Research. The web site Antarctic Animation also demonstrates the to-and-fro of dialogue between artist and scientist working out what's going on.
eco/art/Scot/land March 22, 2011
Data: So Kawaguchi
Animation: Lisa Roberts
Music: Graeme Ewing
