Why We Care

We are about 70% water. Yet over 1 in 6 people lack access to clean drinking water.

All life needs water to live. With climate change less clean water will exist on earth in future. This shift shall affect habitat we depend on for our own survival, with migrations and extinction of species in the delicate ecosystem we call home.

Our Water Source

The vision, photography and video of this project has been created by Amy Seidman during her fellowship at the Sierra Nevada Research Institute in Yosemite.

The Experience

360 Immersion Music & Art

Combining music and media in a dome theater with performance artists, acrobats and dancers, this unique experience has been invited to The Vortex Immersion dome in Los Angeles at LA Center Studios, home of Mad Men and other TV Shows. We have also been invited to tour in 2014 with the Sustainable Living Roadshow to multiple festivals throughout the USA

The immersion experience We Are Water is a chapter of “Instruments of the Forest”, an ongoing project by multimedia artist and musician Amy Seidman.

Other Products

A State of Water ~ Online Video

Stunning footage of Yosemite’s pure rivers is showcased in this emotive short film

Yosemite’s Water ~ Photography Book 

Coffee table book featuring color photography in Yosemite

States of Water ~ Exhibition

Film and photography exhibition for science and modern art museums juxtaposing beautiful imagery of water against current scientific research and global facts

The Water App ~ Mobile

A mobile application that educates people about water awareness and connects them to existing programs working towards water conservation.

Partner With Us

This program is about engaging people to care about the water issues we face as a civilization.

License Digital Media

When you license photographs and video, 25% of our profits goes to support the artists and our program products.

Visit the Into Outside Online Platform

Get Down To Earth was a not-for-profit education project focusing storm drain pollution. Program partners included the Audubon Society, Nature Conservancy, Sony Studios, City of Culver City, Culver City Unified School District. We developed a curriculum, as well as numerous class activities ranging from field trips, invasive species removal, assemblies, campus clean ups, art projects, video production, even a rap song! It was a great success and impacted many lives, as well as the community.

Get Down To Earth from Amy Seidman

Case Study: “House of the Sun” Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii
Holistic design with Made For the Media Platform and Interpretation Tools offer numerous solutions for convergence media needs throughout the National Park system. Our mission is to enhance the use of emerging media to enhance park experience in a meaningful and memorable way.

Project Goals

To Develop Media That Is As Factual As It Is Fascinating

• Create unique content that is as factual as it is fascinating and deliver to the public through multiple channels, technologies and formats
• Foster understanding of cultures and natural environments through the products and exhibits we produce
• Enrich, inspire and positively impact education, sustainable solutions and preservation

Haleakala Site Overview

• Multidimensional topics worthy of immersive and interactive experiences
• Rich in biology
• Living anthropology
• Geological interests
• Delicate ecosystem
• Backcountry adventures
• Scientific research

A multiplatform exhibition demonstrating the “Interconnectivity” of all life.

Imagine what would happen if we eliminated the mosquito. What species would then cease to exist? This kind of question has been pondered but few living models exist in real time to demonstrate and follow biodiversity.

MEN OF MAMONI

A sample of video that make up our multi platform exhibiton. “Men of Mamoni” short film is a peak at some of the topics and the organization Earth Train which is the focal point. It is the first of a series of short films about this area.

Interconnectivity, A Biodiversity Exhibit is a seamless multiplatform interpretive experience about Panama’s Mamoní Valley Preserve Rainforest. The proposed project builds on pertinent work Earth Train an organization preserving this area and their partners Dr. Healy Hamilton, Jane Goodall, Danilla Perez and other noted leaders. One of the features is real time data visualization of Hamilton’s work GPS mapping species for her biodiversity project, to be displayed as part of the exhibit installation, and available to view online though the project Internet site. Other components include a virtual immersive dome experience, mobile application, interactive touch screen presentations, social media and broadcast components.

Interconnectivity uses innovative technology and media to extend STEM literacy by conveying the diverse topics of this area, the work of biologists including Hamilton’s biodiversity mapping, and Jane Goodall’s studies around the Howler monkey. We bring to light the relationship of the indigenous tribe the Kuna people and their relationship with the region and impact on preserving the pristine habitat that remains. We also highlight the work of Earth Train in developing youth leaders through education within this precious environment.