souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata / weathering data

The work “souvenirs entomologiques #1: odonata / weathering data” explores humans, weather, and insects in a data-driven world. It follows dragonflies on multiple scales through time and space: from ecosystems to museum collections, from weather worlds into data clouds, from their geological past into uncertain futures. The insects are mediated, shaped, and reshaped by co-evolving modes of mapping, monitoring, and collecting. On the edge of biocultural diversity extinctions, the speculative video essay traces the metamorphosis of a data bank into a consciously collecting network who ponders about the gaps between data, evidence, and knowledge: by pausing monological accumulations of data, it is eventually unlocking memory space for a re-collection of alternate knowledges, cultural values, colonial histories, as ground for ecological futures. While data-based ontologies promise measures of anticipating and controlling futures, the recollection of traditional ecological knowledge reframes observation as practice of care.