What’s New
Specter[al]s of Nature was recently presented at STREAM.fields – ART-LAB and Symposium (15–23 November 2025). The work was included in the exhibition and featured during the Climate.Streams programme, where visitors could view 3D prints and immersive representations of its satellite-derived visualizations.
About Specter[al]s of Nature
The artwork translates four decades of satellite-based surface water observations into a speculative 3D landscape. Inspired by the temporal maps of the Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics, it generates “water beings” with ghostly margins and uncertain boundaries.
By treating time as a spatial dimension, the work emphasizes the impact of human activity on aquatic ecosystems, invites reflection on the limits of conventional mapping, and explores human and nonhuman ways of perceiving environmental change.
You can discover more about it on SciArt website or on Specter[al]s of Nature website
About the SciArt Collaboration
The project brings together intradisciplinary artist and architect Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, Alan Belward (Head of the Food Security Unit, JRC), Elahe Rajabiani (designer at the EU Policy Lab), and Luca De Felice (geo-spatial data scientist responsible for the Global Surface Water Explorer at the JRC). Their collaboration began at the 2022 SciArt Summer School, where artistic practice and Earth observation research first intersected, laying the groundwork for the ongoing development of Specter[al]s of Nature.
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