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Be a Tree – Green Earth
Be A Tree - Green Earth By Tine Bech.jpeg
Be A Tree - Green Earth By Tine Bech Studio. Phographer Jakob Lerche
Be A Tree – Green Earth By Tine Bech Studio
Be A Tree – Green Earth By Tine Bech Studio
Be A Tree - Green Earth By Tine Bech.jpegBe A Tree - Green Earth By Tine Bech Studio. Phographer Jakob LercheBe A Tree – Green Earth By Tine Bech StudioBe A Tree – Green Earth By Tine Bech Studio
About the artwork

Be a Tree – Green Earth
Plant a tree through play
Hybrid digital artwork. Originally commissioned for Vinterlys Festival 2023.

Imagine making the world a greener place with the power of play!

This new interactive hybrid installation invites people of all ages to become a tree! The artwork ‘captures’ people inside a tree and “plants them on earth”. Visitors see themselves inside their live growing tree with a beautiful colourful overlay.

The more we play, the more trees we grow!

Be a Tree – Green Earth is a portal into a greener dimension that blends sustainability, technology and play to encourage us to grow trees – and greening places.

The planet Earth floating on the tall LED plinth, is created with open-source images from NASA satellite pictures and data stitched together from their observations of Earth. Overlaying the NASA image is a green and blue illustration.

Art and technology can open new ways of ‘seeing’ the world, which might suggest new ways of acting within it – They are ‘materials of imagination’ that allows us to connect with worlds we can visualise but are yet to realise – a greener planet!

Greening Spaces and Audience numbers
The artwork is designed to engage with significant number of people. Technically the project has the capacity to directly engage with up to 480 people per hour with two ‘trees growing’ as seen on the images. The project premiered at Vinterlys 2023 in Denmark, where visitors planted over 11 000 trees in 30 hrs (8 days between 6pm and 9.30pm). Each individual tree is saved online.

We were proud to be part of the first light festival off the grid. The entire festival, was wind-powered, using energy stored on a truck-sized battery developed by Vestas Green energy.

Exhibitions

Vinterlys Festival 2023, Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune.

Feedback

I have turned into a tree – Wow! (Audience at Vinterlys 2023)
Jeg er blevet til et træ – Wow

Credits

Be a Tree – Green Earth by Tine Bech Studio
Funded by Jyske Kunstfund, and supported by Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune in Denmark.
Artist Lead, Tine Bech
Producer Dina Abu Hamdan
Software, Tarim / Media Playgrounds
Poster, Madeline Balaido
Copy writer, Kathryn Reilly

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