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 **Upskilling in the art of conversation, with plants** **Upskilling in the art of conversation, with plants**
  
-**Context**+Research period (February and April 2013) for http://www.transcontinentalgarden.net and an investigation into content, form, and methodology.
  
-Research period for [[www.transcontinentalgarden.net]] and an investigation into content, form, and methodology.+//Transcontinental Garden Exchange is the umbrella title of a research project and investigation  into plant sentience, and series of experiments in communication between homosapiens & flora that will build to a united act of gardening across countries and time zones. A floriligeum remix to highlight how our green friends have seeded changes in our own social history and behaviour.// 
 + 
 +**Context**
  
 History of plant life has direct correlations with human development, social history and behaviour including evolutionary biology, ethnobotany and social and political behaviour. History of plant life has direct correlations with human development, social history and behaviour including evolutionary biology, ethnobotany and social and political behaviour.
  
-Given the significant symbiosis humans have with plant life it’s surprising that scientific research in this area is only just beginnning to evolve in recent years (comparative to the speed and depth of other scientific disciplines). However botany was only established or recognised as a formal science in the 1800’s. In the past 10 years more scientific research, information and evidence is emerging on plant physiology, adaptive behaviour and signalling, and new strands of specialist research have been established such as plant neurobiology.+Given the significant symbiosis humans have with plant life it’s surprising that scientific research in this area is only just beginning to evolve in recent years (comparative to the speed and depth of other scientific disciplines). However botany was only established or recognised as a formal science in the 1800’s. In the past 10 years more scientific research, information and evidence is emerging on plant physiology, adaptive behaviour and signalling, and new strands of specialist research have been established such as plant neurobiology.
  
 I’ve been intrigued by the way gardeners often anthropomorphise plants to rationalise successful gardening methodologies and one of these manifestations - the common compulsion and practice of people talking to plants due to its perceived benefits in improvement in plant health. I’ve been intrigued by the way gardeners often anthropomorphise plants to rationalise successful gardening methodologies and one of these manifestations - the common compulsion and practice of people talking to plants due to its perceived benefits in improvement in plant health.
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 To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/experiences. In so doing, it aims to bring together people from different disciplines (or non-disciplines) to reflect on and pool knowledge on plant signalling and human / plant communicative relationships. To do this the project aims to mix differing discipline approaches to create an eclectic story and group actions/experiences. In so doing, it aims to bring together people from different disciplines (or non-disciplines) to reflect on and pool knowledge on plant signalling and human / plant communicative relationships.
  
-Specifically my research traces more recent (17th C onward) history of women’s relationship with plants and its relationship with socio-political action for the rights of women (education, professional, sexual and more). In the context that 17th Century western women were criticised for expressing sexuality and reproductive knowledge through botany and botanical art.+Specifically my current research springs from the more recent (17th C onward) history of women’s relationship with plants and its relationship with socio-political action for the rights of women (education, professional, sexual and more). In the context that 17th Century western women were criticised for expressing sexuality and reproductive knowledge through botany and botanical art. 
 + 
 +I'm fascinated that artforms that we could consider benign today were considered dangerous in their own context. In a similar way botany and gardening are often considered benign yet carry such dangerous cultural, scientific and economic agendas.
  
 One of the questions that the project asks is:  What is dangerous for women to say through plants today? One of the questions that the project asks is:  What is dangerous for women to say through plants today?
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 **Methods** **Methods**
  
-Having come to fo.am in the dead of winter whilst the collective was on holiday or working in warmer climes, I took advantage of the library here and the space to think. +Having come to fo.am in the dead of winter whilst the collective was on holiday or working in warmer climes, I took advantage of the library here and the space to think. [[http://fo.am/library/]]
    
 General research was across discipline and form (literary, video, url, human conversation).        General research was across discipline and form (literary, video, url, human conversation).       
-Meet with artists/scientists working with plants: Bartaku,   +Meet with artists/scientists working with plants: Bartaku... 
-Collect personal histories of people and plants: Maja Kuzmanovic +Collect personal histories of people and plants: Maja Kuzmanovic... 
-Research on various human plant relationships in history:  +Research on various human plant relationships in history: Herbalism, Symbology... 
-Research overview in plant signalling: +Research overview in plant signalling: acoustic, chemical, gestural... 
-Research into human perception: +Research into human perception: Scent, taste, touch, auditory... 
 + 
 +Devise a structure to help shape or give some focus to the wide range in the enquiry 
 Devising lo-fi tactile experiences for humans to perceive plant signalling and give or receive signals: Edible Perfumes, Chlorophyll Printing Devising lo-fi tactile experiences for humans to perceive plant signalling and give or receive signals: Edible Perfumes, Chlorophyll Printing
 Devising artistic material or environments for humans to assist an understanding of possible relationship futures:  Devising artistic material or environments for humans to assist an understanding of possible relationship futures: 
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 Human perception and the senses Human perception and the senses
  
-Historic+Artistic research – self proposed 
 +Finding a structure for approach – //**The Art of Conversation**//Italic Text////  
 + 
 +Establishing common gound – what are our shared histories and identities? Evolutionary, social and personal. 
 +Empathy 
 +Forms and styles of communication: language, senses, gesture, neurons 
 +How humans can give and receive (or perceive) alternative signals: perceiving the imperceptable, amplification of scale 
 +Translation of signals: encoding, decoding, recoding 
 +The content of the exchange 
 + 
 +**Historic**
 Humans and the early use of intuition, trial and error in establishing the roles of plants as friend or foe. Humans and the early use of intuition, trial and error in establishing the roles of plants as friend or foe.
 Symbology of specific plants based on the Doctrine of Association Symbology of specific plants based on the Doctrine of Association
-The shift of human dominating sense from scent to sight over time through the age of enlightenment and its parellels with changes in ecological relationship.+The shift of human dominating sense from scent to sight over time through the age of enlightenment and its parallels with changes in ecological relationship.
 The role of women in the advancement of the science of botany through the 17th and 18th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. The role of women in the advancement of the science of botany through the 17th and 18th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom.
 The role of plants as women’s status and expression advanced - including sexual education and expression through botanic watercolours and poetry through 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom. The role of plants as women’s status and expression advanced - including sexual education and expression through botanic watercolours and poetry through 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Western Europe and the United Kingdom.
  
-Artistic research – self proposed +**Practical**
-Finding a structure for approach – The Art of Conversation  +
-Establishing common gound – what are our shared histories? Evolutionary, social and personal. +
-Empathy +
-Forms and styles of communication +
-How humans can give and receive (or perceive) alternative signals +
- +
-Practical+
 Chlorophyl printing on leaves Chlorophyl printing on leaves
-The mirror box for human physical empathy +The mirror box for finding a physical experience of empathy for humans 
-Edible perfumes +Edible perfumes - a human translation of volatile molecular signalling 
 +Altering human perception of time and the anthropocentric inner monologue: Continuation practice (pre-fo.am) of creating audio meditations for the luminous green to infiltrate the human mind.
  
-Continuation practice (pre-fo.am) of creating audio meditations for the luminous green to infiltrate the human mind.+Document Werkweek Ecologie - Urban Ikebana [[https://vimeo.com/61225321]] 
 +Document Tree Identity Walk - 
  
 **Post Presentation Discussion** **Post Presentation Discussion**
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 Reference artists Ackroyd and Harvey (UK) who work with chlorophyl printing on grass on a large scale. Reference artists Ackroyd and Harvey (UK) who work with chlorophyl printing on grass on a large scale.
-Future The research continues in 2013 with attendance at meet up with Genspace Bio hackers and Observatory Gallery curators in Austin Texas USA, a Slime Mould workshop by Heather Barnett in March 2013 New York, the Plant Signalling Conference July 2013 in Vancouver, research of 17th-18thC botany texts at the Wellcome Library in London, residencies at Point B in New York, symbioticA in Perth Western Australia, and with artist collaborators at Bundanon Trust NSW. 
  
 +**Future** 
 +The research continues in 2013 with attendance at meet up with Genspace Bio hackers and Observatory Gallery curators in Austin Texas USA, a Slime Mould workshop by Heather Barnett in March 2013 New York, the Plant Signalling Conference July 2013 in Vancouver, research of 17th-18thC botany texts at the Wellcome Library in London, residencies at Point B in New York, symbioticA in Perth Western Australia, and with artist collaborators at Bundanon Trust NSW.
 +
 +**Post residency outcomes**
 +http://catjones.net/2013/11/01/the-plantarum-empathic-limb-clinic/
 +http://catjones.net/2013/06/30/fieldwork-empathic-limb-clinic-2/
 +http://catjones.net/2013/06/30/evolution-a-walk-with-herbivores/
 +http://catjones.net/2013/06/30/needling-clitorides-histories/
  
 **References** **References**
  
-• Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George +**Books** 
-• What A Plant Knows, an overview of information on recognised signalling methods in plants + 
-• Hildegard von Bingen +  * Botany Sexuality and Women’s Writing 17th – 18thC, Samantha George 
-• Aroma +  * What A Plant Knows, Daniel Chamovitz, an overview of information on recognised signalling methods in plants 
-• Circus performer and grass scuplture Cirque d’Ici+  * Hildegard von Bingen 
 +  * Aroma 
 +  * A History of the Senses, Dianne Ackerman 
 +  * http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/natural_world/botanica/science/temple/full_turner.html 
 +  * Sex Botany and Empire by Patricia Farra http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Botany-Empire-Linnaeus-Revolutions/dp/0231134266/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1 
 +  * Goethes way of Science http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Kjg7RFEhHd4C&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=goethe+and+plant+gesture&source=bl&ots=60f3W69idA&sig=QwYS4rE45Njv-34wPuyhCJb37DQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=puotUMmSL6aUiQeH4IDgAQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=goethe%20and%20plant%20gesture&f=false 
 + 
 + 
 +**URL's (eclectic)** 
 + 
 +Female Botanist/Naturalists 
 +  * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackwood-dame-margaret-12218 
 +  * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/atkinson-caroline-louisa-2910 
 +  * http://www.auspostalhistory.com/articles/1835.shtml 
 +  * http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ashby-alison-marjorie-12151 
 +  *  
 + 
 +**Other related to women and botany** 
 +http://www.botanyjohn.org/en/narratives/science-and-society/women-in-botany 
 + 
 +http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rwmiv-pNasQC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Fanny+Charsley&source=bl&ots=3G3g7DbeOP&sig=sViTh-BRGnNOIHSw2UVJDNReXL4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zR8pU9W7LsydlQXswoHoCQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Fanny%20Charsley&f=false 
 + 
 +http://books.google.com.au/books?id=STX1swnuL3AC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=louisa+atkinson+a+voice+from+the+country&source=bl&ots=mqNUrjdYxE&sig=4VlaUZe08ory7PH7TYlpEQEKSJM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AxopU5WFFNGlkgWT1YC4Cg&sqi=2&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=louisa%20atkinson%20a%20voice%20from%20the%20country&f=false 
 + 
 +http://sisterarts.typepad.com/sister-arts-gardens-po/feminism/ 
 + 
 +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_before_the_21st_century#Antiquity 
 + 
 +http://libarynth.org/women_gardeners 
 + 
 +http://kwiki.republika.pl/wom.html 
 + 
 +http://www.thegreenfuse.org/ecofem.htm 
 + 
 +http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Multicultural-Postcolonialisms-Feminisms-Epistemologies/dp/0253211565/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349304972&sr=1-2 
 + 
 + 
 +**Organisations** 
 +  * Society of Plant Signalling and Behaviour http://www.plantbehavior.org/who.html 
 +  * Scientific interest in plant movements, sensitivity, and possible intelligence http://www.linv.org/linv_about.php 
 + 
 + 
 +**Science journalism and related** 
 + 
 +Acoustic Leaves http://www.gardendesign.com/ideas/botanic-notables-acoustic-leaves-in-a-cuban-rainforest 
 +   
 +http://www.ub.edu/sbcn2011/english/speakers.html 
 +   
 +http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6101/1546.abstract 
 +   
 +http://www.medicaldaily.com/scientists-confirm-plants-talk-and-listen-each-other-communication-crucial-survival-240775 
 +   
 +http://www.plantevolution.be/polyamine.html 
 +   
 +http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2012/04/plants-can-talk-to-each-other/ 
 +   
 +   
 +Plants use Clicking Sounds  
 +http://io9.com/5919973/plants-communicate-with-each-other-by-using-clicking-sounds 
 +   
 +Plants in Motion DIY  
 +http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/projects/projects.html 
 +   
 +http://www.amjbot.org/content/93/10/1466.full 
 +   
 +How the first plant evolved  
 +http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-first-plant-evolved/ 
 +   
 +Pea Aphid uses Photosynthesis  
 +http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/3713/20120821/new-species-discovery-alert-pea-aphid-uses.htm 
 +   
 +Sagebrush Self Recognition  
 +http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619171244.htm 
 +   
 +Intro to Cyanobacterium  
 +http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanointro.html 
 +   
 +Soil MEssages  
 +http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120612115946.htm 
 +   
 +Insects Use Plants as a Telephone  
 +http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080423101813.htm 
 +   
 +Leaf images  
 +http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Leaf-Images 
 +   
 +Light Induced Chloroplast motion  
 +http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/projects/livingpics/livingpics.html 
 +   
 +Scent Delivery System  
 +http://www.biopac.com/scent-delivery-system 
 +   
 +http://phys.org/news/2013-05-plants-talk-to-help-them.html 
 +   
 +http://darwins-god.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/new-plant-defense-switch-flowering-time.html 
 +   
 +http://scribol.com/lifestyle/could-soil-bacteria-be-good-for-your-mood 
 +   
 +http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12016-011-8285-8#page-1 
 +   
 +http://www.sfu.museum/forensics/eng/pg_media-media_pg/botanique-botany/ 
 +   
 +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_regional_pain_syndrome 
 +   
 +http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/photos/7-odd-natural-ways-to-boost-your-health/forest-bathing 
 + 
 + 
 +**Historical** 
 +  * http://www.scotland.org/features/seeds-of-revolution 
 + 
 +  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Botanic_Garden 
 +  *  
 +  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_signatures 
 +  *  
 +  * Mary Mitford on Frances Arabella Rowden http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/CommentRecord.php?action=GET&cmmtid=12470 
 +  *  
 +  * The Praise of the Needle http://www.amazon.com/The-praise-needle-John-Taylors/dp/096333316X 
 +  *  
 +  *The Linnaean Dissertations http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Departments/Library/LinnaeanDiss.shtml 
 +  * 
 +  *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsex%27d_Females 
 + 
 + 
 +**Projects and Artists** 
 + 
 +Data Garden http://datagarden.org/about/ 
 +   
 +GrensWerte | Media Art Garden http://www.grenswerte.eu/project/media_art_garden/en 
 +   
 +Ackroyd and Harvey http://www.gardendesign.com/ideas/art-botany-ackroyd-harveys-living-photographs 
 +   
 +Bio Poetry http://www.ekac.org/biopoetry.html   
 +  
 +Carol Flueckiger http://carolflueckiger.com/Carol_Flueckiger/Home.html 
 +   
 +How to Make Leaf Skeletons http://www.pollywantacrafter.com/2010/10/how-to-make-leaf-skeletons.html 
 +   
 +Jyll Bradley http://www.jyllbradley.net/ 
 +   
 +Helena Goldwater http://www.helenagoldwater.co.uk/helenagoldwaterpaintingspage3.html 
 +   
 +Radio Mycelium Project http://fo.am/radio_mycelium/ 
 +   
 +Bartaku http://www.bartaku.net/ 
 +   
 +Simon Park http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2013/01/27/this-ballet-aquatic-mixed-culture-bioconvection/ 
 + 
 +Amy Young http://hypernatural.com/engineer.html 
 +   
 +Eyes as Big A Plates http://eyesasbigasplates.com/2013/03/06/eyes-as-big-as-plates-norway-finland/ 
 +   
 +Natalie Jeremijenko http://www.mediasanctuary.org/node/5407 
 +   
 +Forest Symphony http://forestsymphony.ycam.jp/info// 
 +   
 +Akousmaflore http://www.scenocosme.com/akousmaflore_en.htm 
 +   
 +http://theintentionexperiment.com/the-scientific-team 
 +   
 +Leaf Print Photography http://petapixel.com/2011/08/30/photographer-makes-chlorophyll-prints-using-leaves-and-sunlight/ 
 +   
 +http://www.ehow.com/info_8712581_photosynthesis-experiment-plants.html 
 +   
 +Cirque d’Ici Johann Guillerm - Circus performer who has created La Motte a (slow) moving grass/weed sculpture   http://www.vertilignes.com/EN/vertilab.html and http://www.festival-avignon.com/en/Archive/Spectacle/2008/3040 
 +   
 +http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/what-if-you-could-snapchat-a-scent/277749/
  
-• literature used in the research (books, magazines, journals, URLs…) 
-• media used in the research (film, audiovisual media, photographs…) 
-• visual/sonic/tactile material generated in the research to be archived at FoAM 
  
 +**Other**
 +http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/david-attenborough-the-bbc-has-lost-confidence-in-programming--and-women-are-key-to-the-planets-future-7766017.html
  
  
 +[[http://fo.am/open_sauces/]]

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