Creative Contributions from the Arts

CANPOLIN’s writer in residence speaks: Please check out Stephen Humphrey's blog regarding his activities with CANPOLIN!

Bee Attitudes Blog

Artist Sarah Peebles and CANPOLIN are searching for avenues for outreach. She has created audio bee booiths for bees:

RESONATING BODIES: Images, video, audio, and text bring together arts, pollination ecology, science and community on the web and beyond.

Resonating Bodies

Apiograph: “Apiograph” was connected to a Bombus Impatiens nest at *new* gallery (Toronto) as a part of “Resonating Bodies - Bumble Domicile” integrated media installation, 2008. Live data feed of pollen gathering activities of the nest translates into a virtual world which reflects the nuances of a diverse universe in miniature: a virtual garden 'grown' in real-time, visualizing the genetic diversity of cross-pollination. (Vimeo link)

Resonating Bodies Bee Trading Cards: bee trading cards focus on the biodiversity of pollinators indigenous to the natural and urban ecosystems of the Greater Toronto Area. (PDF info sheet)

Odes to Solitary Bees
Odes to Solitary Bees
Video poems by Stephen Humphrey and Sarah Peebles
http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/odes/

Wild, solitary-dwelling bees of Toronto create nests, manipulate pollen and hang out in the “Audio Bee Booth” and other amplified habtat structures. Macro video with micro audio!

Video by Stephen Humphrey. Audio Bee Booth and other amplified habitats by Sarah Peebles. Created in co-ordination with the Toronto Zoo, CANPOLIN, and Laurence Packer’s wild bee lab  (York University), 2010 - 2011.  Related videos are posted at the Resonating Bodies Youtube channel.

Audio Bee Booth prototype generously hosted by the Toronto Zoo Education Branch. Nest-building footage of various bee species will be examined by members of Packer Lab 2010 - 2011. Related videos are posted at the Resonating Bodies youtube channel.


Ode No. 1
Solitary Bee, June 17, 2010 (makes a nest - macro video; no audio)

This Hoplitis spolias is one of eight species of summer-flying bee in our area (Eastern Canada), some species ranging into the sub-arctic regions. She's inhabiting a small nest block in Sarah Peebles' front yard in Toronto. Related videos are posted at the Resonating Bodies youtube channel.

Technical assistance provided by Robert Cruickshank; bee booth fabricated by Patrick Ellard; bee nesting audio plank fabricated John Kuisma. More at http://resonatingbodies.wordpress.com/art/logplank/

Nico's wild bees & wasps - an extraordinary Flickr photostream (Dr. Nicolas J. Vereecken at Free University of Brussels, Belgium).