Emily Ogden
Two screen video installation
In today’s world, exploring a landscape often means engaging with new media processes. Experiences of rural and outdoor spaces are shaped, documented and shared through the means of social media, websites and virtual maps. The preexisting precarity of ecological environments; tensions between industry, environment and tourism, has been further amplified by new dimensions of awareness brought by our connection to cyberspace.
This project explores the relationships that now comprise a landscape. Through a conversation between young people, as digital media natives, and Thirlmere, a reservoir at the heart of the Lake District national park, the work places the tensions between industry, tourism, environmental preservation and digital media at the forefront. These discussions are played out through my own acts of digital extraction from the landscape, mirroring processes of industry found in the area. Together with interviews and research artefacts, the collection amounts to a digital video installation exploring the environment of Thirlmere, as experienced by the young people who have inherited it.
This project explores the relationships that now comprise a landscape. Through a conversation between young people, as digital media natives, and Thirlmere, a reservoir at the heart of the Lake District national park, the work places the tensions between industry, tourism, environmental preservation and digital media at the forefront. These discussions are played out through my own acts of digital extraction from the landscape, mirroring processes of industry found in the area. Together with interviews and research artefacts, the collection amounts to a digital video installation exploring the environment of Thirlmere, as experienced by the young people who have inherited it.