This performance has been developed in context of the project The Habitables. The starting impulse of this long-term investigation was the intention to elaborate an interdisciplinary methodology based on the exploration of ecosystems via sonification practices and media-environmentalism. During two seasons of fieldwork at Azov Seashore of Biruchiy Island, Ukraine - in 2013 and 2015 - big datasets were collected. This datasets include field recordings, photos and tables of climatic information.

All collected data-arrays establish a basis for developing an “alternative topography” – new ways of researching and presenting spatial information. This performance could be considered as an attempt to go beyond the frameworks of the positivistic tradition of real-world data visual display. In this case, instead, an analytical model of investigation is realized by means of a generative audiovisual system, which has constant poly-variance potential prolonged in the time domain and is determined by a combination of input parameters, manipulated in real time by the performer.

Anton Lapov ​ (1984)​ is a media artist and educator based in Kyiv, Ukraine. His cultural activities include media art and museological research as well as lectures and workshops within and outside academic and cultural institutions. He is also the coordinator of art-cluster R+N+D, an independent lab that foster collaborations between media-artists, photographers, promoters and cultural managers throughout Ukraine. Since 2011, R+N+D develops projects also by organising performances, media-installations, sonification of data, generative design. Anton Lapov has been holding lessons and talks in institutions in Ukraine and in various European cities and is also a member of Open Archive of Ukrainian Media-Art, a free database for artworks by Ukrainian artists of various genres concerning media.