About

(Created by Andreas Göransson, Sasom Viklund, Keng Goom, Fernando Lbarrajón)

Coralinti is an interactive coral reef, creating a fun and creative way to learn and teach about the importance and fragility of our natural coral reefs. It is an installation in which you actively get involved in helping the coral reef flourish (we use a coral reef as an example of a complex ecosystem).

For the art of nature/ecology/environment or of sustainability, which antecedents can be traced to the Land Art of the ’70s, the medium of artistic creation is the natural sphere in all its extensions and complexities. The idea of the close connectivity between all the organisms that represent terrestrial life for billions of years inspire the dynamic definition of this new artistic field. Issues of pollution, the exhaustion of fossil fuels of energy sources and global warming are turning into the main areas of concern of the environmental artists of this new century.*1

We would like to augment the possible use of this installation to a more oriented environmental awareness without harming the real ecosystem.

1. http://geology.about.com/od/geologyandculture/a/aa_earthart.htm as of 2007-12-04 20:22