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“Water Paintings” science art works created at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest on exhibit at MNMF
November 10, 2018 - December 26, 2018

New Media Festival, Editions XIII
presents
“Water Paintings”
an exhibition of works created at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest by
Xavier Cortada
at
Concrete Space
3400 NW 78th Avenue
Doral, FL 33122
(305) 219-0811
opening on
Saturday, November 10, 2018
4pm
Water Paintings will be presented as part of the WaterViz installation by Dr. Lindsey Rustad and the Hubbard Brook team at the 13th edition of the Miami New Media Festival: www.waterviz.org

Xavier Cortada’s “Water Paintings” exhibition at Pinecrest Gardens in 2018.

Xavier Cortada works with Hydrologist Mark Green to create “Water Paintings” at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
WATER PAINTINGS
“Water Paintings allowed me to give water at Hubbard Brook’s nine watersheds a voice. In the work, I made water the protagonist. In June 2016, I placed nine pencil drawings and nine pieces of watercolor paper inside nylon mesh. I then tied the mesh bags to a rope at each of the nine weirs at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and left them there for a period of 16 weeks in 2016. The water flowing through the mesh stained the paper inside. Water samples and water data were collected by scientists over the same 16-week period from the same nine weirs. The final work included water samples, data, even the residue in filters. I wanted audiences to see the water, what the water did, and what it painted as it flowed and transported materials down the stream.”
Xavier Cortada

Xavier Cortada, “Water Paintings: Hubbard Brook,” paper and residue captured from water flowing from each of the 9 weirs at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest LTER in New Hampshire, 2016
Hubbard Brook scientists pioneered the small watershed approach, which transformed the study of forests by using whole watersheds as living laboratories. This ground-breaking approach fostered many new discoveries beneficial to both science and society.
Small first-order watersheds can show us how ecosystems respond to environmental change. Chemical concentrations combined with stream flow provides data on stream-water element flux for each watershed.
Water samples and data collected by scientists over a 16-week period from all nine watersheds hang on the walls CLIMA.
Nine sets of “Water Paintings” hang from the ceiling. Cortada created each using the same water scientists study. He placed watercolor paper in mesh and tied it to a rope in each of the nine weirs. The works depict 4 months of streamflow.
About the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and LTER
The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) is a 3,160 hectare reserve located in the White Mountain National Forest operated by the USDA Forest Service, near Woodstock, New Hampshire. The on-site research program is dedicated to the long-term study of forest and associated aquatic ecosystems. It has produced some of the most extensive and longest continuous data bases on the hydrology, biology, geology and chemistry of a forest and its associated aquatic ecosystems.
Hubbard Brook scientists pioneered the small watershed approach, which transformed the study of forests by using whole watersheds as living laboratories. This ground-breaking approach fostered many new discoveries beneficial to both science and society.
Hubbard Brook scientists discovered acid rain in North America by taking meticulous, long-term measurements of rain and snow. Scientists continue to document acid rain’s damaging effects and track recovery linked to pollution reduction efforts.
Learn more at http://www.hubbardbrook.org

Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Special thanks to the entire Hubbard Brook team, the USDA Forest Service, Dr. Lindsey Rustad, Hydrologist Mark Green, Sr. Researcher Tammy Wooster, Amey Bailey, and Mary Martin.

MNMF Organizations Sponsors and Partners

With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.
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Details
- Start:
- November 10, 2018
- End:
- December 26, 2018
- Event Categories:
- 2018, Events
- Event Tags:
- 2018, 2018 events, aqua, art, climate, Cortada, eco-art, ecology, environment, exhibit, experimental forest, hubbard brook, lindsey rustad, Miami new media festival, mnmf, New Hampshire, Pinecrest Gardens, science, STEAM, water, water cycle, watershed, white mountains, xavier cortada, xcortada
- Website:
- https://www.miaminewmediafestival.com
Organizer
- Adriana Barrios
- Phone
- (305) 915.1957
- miaminewmediafestival@gmail.com
- View Organizer Website
Venue
- Concrete Space
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3400 NW 78th Avenue
Doral, 33122 United States + Google Map - Phone
- 3052190811
- View Venue Website