X mas as Red as Blood
Mediaarcheological reflections under the vast theme of Anthrobscene (by Jussi Parikka)
Installation & essay no 7. p.30
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edit note p.41 “bat-pod-cooking-eggs “ should be “bat-pod-cooconing-eggs”
Concept & text: Liisi Soroush
Technology: Camilo Sanchez
Mentor: Samir Bhowmik
Graphic Design: Reishabh Kailey
Installation & essay no 7. p.30
click here to view
edit note p.41 “bat-pod-cooking-eggs “ should be “bat-pod-cooconing-eggs”
Concept & text: Liisi Soroush
Technology: Camilo Sanchez
Mentor: Samir Bhowmik
Graphic Design: Reishabh Kailey
The Anthropocene is nothing but the Anthrobscene. Obscene — “because of the unsustainable, politically dubious, and ethically suspicious practices that maintain technological culture and its corporate networks. Obscene because this age marks the environmentally disastrous consequences of planned obsolescence of electronic media, the energy costs of digital culture and furthermore the neo-colonial arrangements of material and energy extraction across the globe. To call it anthrobscene is just to emphasize what we knew but perhaps we were shielded away from acting on—that is the horrific human-caused drive toward a 6th mass extinction.” (J. Parikka, The Anthrobscene, 2015)
This second volume is a compilation of critical student artworks and short essays dealing with the materialities of media technologies and their environmental implications. These works and texts are the outcomes from the course ‘Media and the Environment’ in the Fall of 2019 at the Department of Media, Aalto University. The course was a series of scholarly readings about and around the themes of media including media’s relations and impacts on the so-called Anthropocene, thermocultures of media, ecologies of fabrication, media and plastics, Internet of Things, Planned Obsolescence, e-waste, and media’s energetic landscapes.
- Samir Bhowmik
This second volume is a compilation of critical student artworks and short essays dealing with the materialities of media technologies and their environmental implications. These works and texts are the outcomes from the course ‘Media and the Environment’ in the Fall of 2019 at the Department of Media, Aalto University. The course was a series of scholarly readings about and around the themes of media including media’s relations and impacts on the so-called Anthropocene, thermocultures of media, ecologies of fabrication, media and plastics, Internet of Things, Planned Obsolescence, e-waste, and media’s energetic landscapes.
- Samir Bhowmik
Xmas As Red As Blood
Installation, concept, storytelling, text.
The question of the political, societal, ethical and environmental impact on our daily media consumerism is explored and approached through speculative and radical design. Meanwhile the realism in the concept and story takes delivery business and policies under scrutiny, the speculative fantasies examines bats and pods: from coocooning to lidar technologies.
Technical framework for installation on the installation:
Within this art project ultrasonic sensors track the presence of another human being or / and object at its presence metaforic for impact of the mankind at The Era of Anthroposcene ,
- this has been used as an energy source in a conceptual level for this Xmas inspired LED-light structure, which repeats the patterns and rhythm derived from the
hashtags #newiphone #macbook #moccamaster scraped in postings in Instagram.
Once meeting the climax of the postings during a high-season of them and generated by this chosen social media platform, the high-pitched beeping sound of delivery or a garbage truck backing up intertwined with the intensified and rushing red light running in LED-strip will slowly start drawing the straight line towards another meaning than Jolly Christmas for a red light:
The Warning...
- this has been used as an energy source in a conceptual level for this Xmas inspired LED-light structure, which repeats the patterns and rhythm derived from the
hashtags #newiphone #macbook #moccamaster scraped in postings in Instagram.
Once meeting the climax of the postings during a high-season of them and generated by this chosen social media platform, the high-pitched beeping sound of delivery or a garbage truck backing up intertwined with the intensified and rushing red light running in LED-strip will slowly start drawing the straight line towards another meaning than Jolly Christmas for a red light:
The Warning...