Anthos is an immersive, interactive sound and light installation that highlights the importance of pollinators and demonstrates our anthropocentric effect on them. With a goal to uncovering potentially hidden secrets about the plant-pollinator network and its functions, this installation is designed on the principles of complex theory. The final work will be an ever-changing data visualisation/sonification model of pollinator systems with audience input options. Participants inside this installation will affect how the network behaves — changing the audio and visual outcome.

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"I'm working with insects, with  scientists and Colombian nature especially with lepidoptera and moths and biodiversity. So I connected with the idea with this priority from the European Commission for the next years which is talking about  food security, the fact that probably we're not going to have some food in the future because of the populations of pollinators going down.

And so when we meet scientists, we figure out that we're in a moment in which we really need each other. I think the scientists are feeling that through art, they can also do things. And for us as artists we feel that we need scientists to create something powerful. It's something that has been happening all this time. It's hard, but I think it's necessary.  And I think this need goes in the direction of really making teams that can really change things." - Giovanni Randazzo

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