A song from the office
for tree migration (OTM)
featuring OTM Agent E. Sloan
4:38min, 4k, 2025
by Agnes Meyer-Brandis
In this short video, we see OTM Agent Sloan at work – which essentially consists of observing slow or minute changes using various real-time analysis programmes – at the OTM centre in Hyytiälä, Finland. Observing migrating trees can be tedious and boring, so agent Sloan has started singing.
OTM is a longterm research project of Agnes Meyer-Brandis and the Institute for Art and subjective Science FFUR. Trees are `rooted`. Though long term observations have shown, that forests actually do move throughout the landscape and regions, just very, very slow and over decades. Climate change appears to happen faster than the trees can escape to more suitable areas in order to survive. Scientists are discussing “assisted migration” in order to help speeding up the process of tree adaption.
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