The Lantana Project

Symposium:

• ISEA2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• SITEWORKS: Ecologies and Technologies

• The Lantana Project

• Gary Warner

Venue(s):

• The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

• Roundtable: SITEWORKS: Ecologies and Technologies

  Lantana camara is a scrambling, thicket-forming plant with pretty flower clusters. Native to Central and South America, it was brought to Europe in the seventeenth century as a garden ornamental and diffused across the world in the wake of European colonialism. In Australia, lantana is deemed a “weed of national significance” due to its ability to aggressively colonise and seriously disrupt natural ecosystems. It is estimated that 5% of the continent is infested with lantana. A visit to Bundanon in 2007 exposed me to the exhilarating native bushland surrounding the farm, and the shock of decades of significant habitat degradation by lantana.

  Full text (PDF) p. 90-91

Category:

• Round Table