Productions
Art and Biodiversity, Art and Physics, Art and Neuroscience, Art and the Visually Challenged
WETLAND WORLDS (2025 AND ONGOING)
Worried Wings and Water Quality
WETLAND WORLDS is a ground-breaking collaboration for biodiversity between artists, biotechnologists and hydrologists. The project is driven by new monitoring or communication developments in technology, biology and media art and it explores how innovative technology can foster unique transdisciplinary environmental exchange and develop art education within the “citizen science” experience. Wetland Stories is divided into two parts: (1) Workshops called Biodiversity Lives Here and (2) Interactive Exhibitions called Water Stories with Art-Science Talks. The information from the workshops feeds directly into the exhibition format. People learn to use and share methods and technologies to not only understand biodiversity but also to collect actual scientific data. We hope to empower citizens to contribute to scientific knowledge and brainstorm about possible ways to help wetland ecosystems survive. Currently, scientific researchers need this data about wetlands to assess the loss of wetland biodiversity on a world-wide level.
Artistic interpretation and communication skills add a novel approach with the aim to raise the participants’ awareness of our human impact and meet like-minded people for further collaborations on sustainability. Specially designed interactive media art exhibits are produced, and Laser talks between artists and scientists aim to compare research and to work with communities for protection and rewilding. Wetland Stories in 2025 was a volunteer project, and we aim to use the experiences to create a structure that can be repeated as workshops in other wetland environments in Europe and elsewhere, with related exhibitions and debates in local museums or art centres.
WORKSHOPS
Discover Wetland Worlds – Biodiversity Live Here
A series of dynamic workshops uniting artists, biotechnologists and hydrologists to explore biodiversity through innovation..citizen science..creative collaboration.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
Wetland Worlds Workshops
2025–2026, 25 Min.
Directed by Jill Scott and Jasmine Chastonay
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
- SciArt and ec(h)o/art associations (Jill Scott/Marille Hahne/Dorothea Rust)
- Simplex eDNA Winterthur (Kristy Deiner)
- Crowdwater App: Hydrology, University of Zurich (Vanja Maksimovic)
- The Swiss Alpine Club (Arnold Häni)
- Outreach GmbH (Luci Bader)
EXHIBITIONS
Discover Wetland Worlds – Water Stories
the exhibition format. Here the public and participants from the workshops can be involved in biodiversity issues through interactive media art and SciArt discussions.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
EXHIBITION ORGANIZERS AND CREDITS
THE BIODIVERSITY WORKBENCH
Jill Scott, Natascha Janovski, Jasmine Chastonal, Sibylla Giger, Nikolas Völzow, Raffaele Grosjean
WORRIED WINGS
Jill Scott, Natascha Janovski, Jasmine Chastonal, Sibylla Giger, Nikolas Völzow, Raffaele Grosjean, Olav Levrik, Vanessa Barrera, Marille Hahne, Toni Fröhlich
WATER STORIES EXHIBITION
Water is considered by people to be a sacred gift that is critical to their identity and existence, as well as being economically important. Worried wings is an art and science collaboration to create an interactive installation, a virtual reality platform, and educational citizen science workshops about freshwater biodiversity. Our aims are to help the public learn about environmental dna or e-dna and help scientists map the loss of biodiversity in local water sources, they can compare biodiversity information in an empathetic virtual reality experience from the point of view of a dragonfly. The project allows citizens to physically engage with data, and, add to the interactive installation. The effects of climate change through images, sounds, and storytelling are exchanged to raise awareness about our impacts on aquatic biodiversity.
EXHIBITION VENUES
Papilioroama. Kerzers. Switzerland From May 18-August 10.
Future Water/Future Soil . Machine 17. Cham_Zug. Switzerland From October 24- November 23, 2025
Contact
Prof. Dr. Jill scott
+41 79 524 92 11
info@jillscott.org
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Art and Physics
Atmosphere ONE
ATMOSPHERE ONE This is an environmental art team headed by Marille Hahne and Jill Scott to focus on the fact that the balance of molecular gases in our atmosphere is now our number one priority for future life and the sustainability of nature on our planet. Because of the need to raise public awareness after the PARIS Climate Change agreement, we are currently open for new collaborations. The project consists of 4 parts: 1) The water air-hydrogen cycle, 2) The oxygen – carbon cycle, 3) Vice versa – Photosynthesis and 4) The release and storage -the energy cycle (electricity) Please contact us if you are interested.
Art and Neuroscience
Neuro_Eco_Media
The main challenge of Neuro_Eco_Media is to combine artistic and cultural interpretation with scientific process and evidence. Neuro_Eco_Media focuses on interpretative interactive constructions of sculptural models about our sensory perception with imbedded electronics, sound samples and interactive film segments based on actual scientific research. These projects are conceptually layered with cultural metaphors about the human condition and environmental issues.
Videos
Art and the Visually Challenged
Eskin Research Group
2002 – ongoing
“The crust of the earth is our skin so we must work together and take care of it. Eskin stands for Eco-skin, Electronic Skin and Equality Skin.” – Jill Scott
Eskin is an ongoing series of performative tributes by visually challenged participants about nature and the re-wilding or re-design of our local environments. It is a unique process that gives these participants the chance to engage in our world of culture that is so visually dominant. It involves novel workshops, interactive electronic wearable interface and sound design, cross model interaction and public presentations based on the disciplines of media art, dance and local bio-diversity. We have invented a technical platform that encourages inclusion and local empowerment for those who want to be included in the debate on the physical effects of climate change and speak out about our pollution and energy use.
Eskin 5 Basel took place at the HeK (Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel) in Switzerland in 2019. It was the second collaborative performance with visually challenged persons that gives them a chance to be included in this debate. In Eskin 5 Basel, these participants, choreographers, scientific consultants and artists, presented five interlinked scenes on a unique stage with customized sound objects, interactive graphics, dancers, computer interaction and wearable technologies. The aim was to encourage the audience to be more pro-active about their affects on our environment. For more information see www.hek.ch
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Thanks to
CREDITS
Director | Jill Scott
Choreographers | Dominique Cardito and Tommi Zeuggin
Participants | Pina Dolce, Roberto Collidoro, Nicole Pfister, Leila Grillo, Daniel Fernandes
Media Art Team | Marille Hahne(Stage Design, Film Document) and Andrew Quinn (Interactive Graphics)
Sound Interaction Design | Vanessa Barrera Giraldo
Interactive sound customisation | Victor Giers
Electronic Music | Olav Lervik, Daniel Fernandes for Scene 5
Wearable Shoes | Daniel Bisig
Promotion | Lucie Bader Production: HEK Basel and AIL Production Zurich, Marille Hahne