Time Traces
Outline
Nature, inherently transient and ever-evolving, becomes both subject and collaborator in this work. Produced entirely with mobile technologies, the project engages with the concept of artistic creation in motion, highlighting the role of mobile media in articulating subjective connections to place and environment.
Investigators
Nature, inherently transient and ever-evolving, becomes both subject and collaborator in this work. Produced entirely with mobile technologies, the project engages with the concept of artistic creation in motion, highlighting the role of mobile media in articulating subjective connections to place and environment.
Time Traces examines how mobility—both physical and temporal—shapes mobile moving-image and sonic art. The audio-visual experience captures the ecological rhythms of the natural world through visuals of moving clouds, concentric rings of trees, and the sonic textures of birdsong, flowing creeks, and waterfalls. These audiovisual fragments are conceived as dynamic time traces of environmental processes and human engagement.
Produced entirely using smartphones and mobile sound technologies, the project captures the natural world in flux—moving clouds, tree rings, birdsong, creeks, and waterfalls—transforming these into immersive reflections on time and place.
Beginning with Koszolko’s Daylesford Naturalis—a series of audio field recordings made during one of Victoria’s 2021 lockdowns—the artists engage in a creative exchange. Schleser responds with mobile video dérives, capturing the same sites three years later. Koszolko then replies with Daylesford Naturalix and Daylesford Reversalix, new sonic compositions crafted exclusively from the original recordings.
Time Traces invites audiences on an ecocritical journey through sound and image, illuminating the ephemeral rhythms of nature and the evolving relationship between artistic practice, mobility, and environmental awareness.
The project was exhibited as part of the BIO ASSEMBLY in the Watt Gallery during the New Annual Festival in Newcastle in September and November 2025.
