Mark Lee Koven, artist and professor at Utah State is currently working on an interactive art installation in the Logan river, focusing on the caddisfly; an insect whose presence is deeply connected to a river’s health. The project is set to open in late Spring of 2016.
In the lapping swirls of the Logan river, an art installation is set to finish next spring.
The installation is meant to be an interactive art piece combining art and science. Featuring a series of stepping stones, through the length of the river.
The stepping stones, will be placed in a curved shape, creating eddy pools -- an ideal environment for the caddisfly larvae.The larvae serve as a major source of food in the river's ecosystem but are sensitive to pollution and environmental disturbance, if they go, the fish go with them.
A clear viewer will let people look into the water and observe these important organisms living and growing, which are part of a grand river ecosystem.
Mark Lee Koven, the assistant professor of art at Utah State and lead artist of the project tells us more about the project.
“This is a great example of where an art project or art initiative is being integrated into a scientific endeavor that is intersecting with the arts,” Mark Koven, assistant professor of art at Utah State, said. “Both on an aesthetic component as well as a philosophical component where we’re both just curious about the world as artists and scientists.”