“18// Flux” utilizes daily PhenoCam images (from a camera affixed to a FluxNet research tower) and my own audio samples from sites in Oregon. These videos represent the color, light and texture changes that occur hourly from 4 AM to 9 PM throughout the year for as many years as the PhenoCam has been in operation at each site. Each hour of daylight, or darkness, depending on the season, appears as a vertical stripe in the video frame, 4 AM on the farthest left and 9 PM on the farthest right. As the days progress, the interplay of elements across the screen reveals the numerous variations that take place throughout the year. I am interested in using visual, lens-based data-gathering techniques to create artworks that offer a different perspective and an expansive visual examination of the FluxNet research sites. These videos share an entire day of photographic data in every frame, and each second of video contains 24 frames, the standard for traditional film. This allows a viewer to consume one year of photographic data in approximately 15 seconds and thousands of unique moments in just a few minutes.

18// Flux is made possible by the L.L. Stewart Fellowship, in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Still, through the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University. This project is also supported by the FluxNet Artist Residency Program. Coding by Eric Corwin.

Images used in this video were provided by the PhenoCam Network, which has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network which is supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Northeastern States Research Cooperative, and the USA National Phenology Network. Special thanks to the PhenoCam Network collaborators, including site PIs and technicians, for publicly sharing the data that were used in this video.