The artist duo Arja Hop and Peter Svenson have collaborated on analogue photographic research projects since 2015. Their long-term projects focus on depicting plant colors and their habitats, exploring the influences on tonality, specific compounds, and the meaning they convey. Combining photography, chemistry, and ecology, the duo investigates how plants react to their environment, touching on current environmental issues. Through their 'residue projects,' Hop and Svenson extract pigment from plants, applying it directly to analogue film and prints.
Prof. dr. Hans Cornelissen is a distinguished Plant Ecologist with a PhD. from Utrecht University, awarded in May 1993. His ecological research focuses on exploring a myriad of topics such as arctic ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling, cryptogams and comparative plant ecology. A central question driving his research: “How (much) does the functional biodiversity of ecosystems, through the traits of their component plant species and types, control carbon, nutrient and water cycling in different biomes of the world, and how does this feed back to climate?”
Dr. Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian specializing in the intersection of art and science, particularly with a focus on nuclear technologies. Her interdisciplinary research, at the intersection of art history and environmental humanities, explores nuclear aesthetics, the visual representation of extraction, and the material histories of art and the environment. Currently, she is working on an exhibition about the atomic age at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (fall 2024). She is a board member of the Enviromental Humanities Center at VU Amsterdam.
