Via Lucem Continens
2000
Website dedictated to the Via Lucem Continens project by Lukasz Skapski. Via Lucem Continens (Avenue Containing Light) is a 140-metre avenue of 200 yew trees planted by local people. The artwork is a device for viewing the setting sun: it framed the sunset on midsummer's day 2000 and will act as a battery of energy over the next millennium - during which time the yew trees will slowly mature.

More information on the Via Lucem Continens microsite (opens in a new browser window).

Figments
2001
In 2001, Judy Gordon & David Barnett created Figments. Performing arts specialist Judy Gordon and digital artist David Barnett worked with actors to create extraordinary scenarios using digital collages of the forest and harsh urban environments. They also recorded the voices of a forester and people who live nearby. Their resulting CD is a highly charged and surreal exploration of city-dwellers’ reactions to the forest.

More images of Figments are available from the Artists Commissioned page.

Draw a Mile of Forest
2003
Draw a Mile of Forest, a participatory event for all ages, took place in King’s Wood in October 2003.  It was part of the ‘Big Draw’ and the Canterbury Festival.  Jennet Thomas was commissioned to make an animated piece for the web to document this event.  She took recordings in the day and used animation to extend the imaginative gestures and responses of the children and adults taking part.

Jennet Thomas' video work is distributed internationally by Video Data Bank and is on tour in 2006-7 as "WE MAKE OUR OWN TELEVISION" with partner Paul Tarragó. Jennet is a founder member of the London based EXPLODING CINEMA COLLECTIVE and is currently developing a feature length project called
ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END.