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Ecological art is framed as a Deep Green agenda that can catalyze on-the-ground ecosystem recovery. 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In this essay I have considered how GISc information about land sites may be integrated into aperformative ecological art practice as well as how art may contribute to land management. Ecological art is defined here as endeavors whose Deep Green agenda may catalyze on-the-ground ecosystem support. The objective for Mapping Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism is to show how using GISc combined with art practice to identify and advocate the restoration of small sites may catalyze efforts toward large landscape environmental rehabilitation. Such efforts may function as environmental triage for landscape biomes. On a small scale these nucleus sites have been effective triggers for forestry restoration, identifying habitat remnants to anchor bioengineering. It is more difficult in coastal marine zones because the  \nterrain is harder to control. This essay will describe how Trigger Point Theory evolved after the Ghost Nets coastal marine site ecological art project ([www.ghostnets.com](www.ghostnets.com), 1990–2000, figures 1–3 ) and is being developed to contextualize sites by combining performance art with GISc . This effort continues in a predictive modeling project to identify sites where restored eel grass beds might support finfish resilience. Presently, non-native, predatory green crabs are devastating forage fish stocks at the bottom of the food chain on both coasts of North America. Initial cartography used performance and participatory mapping to intuitively identify relationships. In modeling terms, art became an “expert witness” to inform the site analysis. Trigger Point mapping is part of an integrated strategy of science and art that seeks to identify modeling rules, addressing where resilience can be restored to degraded regions.  \nPIIM IS A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FACILITY AT THE NEW SCHOOL  \nTHE PARSONS INSTITUTE  \nFOR INFORMATION MAPPING  \n68 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011  \n212 229 6825 [piim.newschool.edu](piim.newschool.edu)  \nfigures 1,2 and 3: The Ghost Nets site focused on a section of land that, originally, was the site of a deep water wharffor schooners bringing stone to eastern cities. The site fell into neglect until it became the town dump (above, upper image). The site was purchased in 1990 by the artist and restored in 1997. The project moved through interpretive installations, such as this composition of the three sculptures exhibited at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine 2002 (center image). This gained public awareness of a representative “trigger point” site. The lower image (above, lower image), is a drawing (detail) on tracing paper over digital photographic collage of changes to the site over time. Original aerial photography by Ben Magro 2007, integrated artwork by the author.  \n© 2012 PARSONS JOURNAL FOR INFORMATION MAPPING AND PARSONS INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION MAPPING  \nmapping trigger point theory as aesthetic activism aviva rahmani  \nintrodUction  \nIn 1958, Allan Kaprow, in his elegy for Jackson Pollock, famously suggested that art might now move off the canvas and into everyday life. Since then, art has indeed done so—it has moved into every aspect of daily life, including the management and interpretation of data streams.  \nOne particular rich set of data is geographic data. In the last decades Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , have increasingly become the method by which to layer spatial and statistical data. As an artist, I originally approached GIS with c","cbCaikRIHRj1RAIG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikRIHRj1RAIG","pdf",2752773,9,"English","# Introduction\n## GISc and ecological art restoration","[{\"question\":\"What is the central idea of “Mapping Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism”?\",\"answer\":\"It shows how combining GISc with ecological art can identify and advocate restoration of small sites, using those sites as trigger points that can scale up to larger landscape rehabilitation and resilience efforts.\"},{\"question\":\"How does GISc contribute to ecological art and site restoration?\",\"answer\":\"GISc layers spatial and statistical data, enabling precise visualization of relationships and predictive modeling of cumulative impacts over time, which supports informed site analysis for restoration targets.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are trigger point sites important in the overall restoration strategy?\",\"answer\":\"On smaller scales they help anchor actions such as forestry restoration and habitat identification for bioengineering, while the approach becomes more challenging in coastal marine zones where terrain control is harder.\"}]","Mapping Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism - Aviva Rahmani | PDF",1789103452]