Anthos @ JRC

What is our impact on biodiversity?

We are delighted to announce that Anthos, an immersive interactive art installation exploring our impact on plant-pollinator systems, is currently on view at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra.

Visit the installation

📍  JRC Ispra, Building 100 (Atrium)
📅  1–26 June 2026

Description

Anthos is an immersive, interactive sound and light installation that explores the dynamics of plant‑pollinator systems and our anthropogenic effect on them. In the installation designed for the Ispra site, Anthos draws real-time environmental data (CO₂ concentration, temperature and humidity) from online sources of the three cities where the artists reside: Athens, New York and Bogotá. As these data streams change, the visuals and sound being projected inside Anthos also change, reflecting the influence of those parameters on real plant-pollinator systems. Through this constantly changing experience, visitors are encouraged to consider the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the impact of human activity on the natural world.

A collaboration between art and science-for-policy

The artwork was created through a collaboration between artists Yiannis Kranidiotis, Sam Nester, and Giovanni Paolo Randazzo and JRC scientists Alba Bernini (JRC E.5), Irene Guerrero Fernandez (former JRC D.5) Ana Montero Castaño (former JRC D.5). The group first met and connected at the 2022 SciArt Summer School on the topic of NaturArchy. The aim was to explore, through artistic, scientific and legal expressions, how giving nature a contract that fully integrates it into our society would redefine our anthropocentric relationship with it. Anthos was first exhibited at the NaturArchy exhibition, iMAL Centre for Digital Culture and Technology, Brussel, in 2024.