Biography

Simon Strøyer is an artist, architect and creative technologist. Through fieldwork, co-creation, and cutting-edge technology, he creates site-specific artworks, landscape designs, and public interventions that invite new ways to sense, imagine, and connect with shifting ecologies and the more-than-human world.

Artistic project

Across cultures and generations, people turn to trees for solace, connection, and beauty. Yet throughout Europe, ancient and significant trees are disappearing due to industrial forestry, climate change, and disease. This artwork explores the value of trees as emotional and cultural landmarks.
The project unfolds in two acts. First, local participants help 3D scan a significant tree. This meditative process—positioning the scanner, waiting, and slowly circling the tree—creates space for conversation and reflection. Memories and stories emerge, making this mapping about both external landscapes and participants' inner worlds.
The second act features a public film installation screened near the tree itself. Viewers watch as collected data transforms into moving images. In digital space, we circle the tree again, lingering on details and exploring context. Participants share their stories live on stage, creating dialogue between physical and virtual spaces, data and memory.
As the artwork tours Europe, it becomes its own public space—a growing virtual forest of endangered trees and testimonies that invite reflection on our personal connections to trees and their significance in this time of accelerating change.

Format : film installation

Size of audience : 20 to 50 people

Specific location : forest or cinema

Timing / duration : evening or night installation of 30 to 60min