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︎This concept observes between the real-time present and the historical factual knowledge/data starting from the times of The Industrial Revolution. While installation hanging above (like a storm cloud), - a physical 3D model of the CO2 emission from the period of them inbetween the years of 1750 and 2014. The data installation contemplated dialogue with the LED lights which conduct and transform the light in different varieties of Kelvin color temperature scale transformed from the in real-time climate -change related- buzzword- tweets.This experience is aiming to allow the audience having a moment in a representation of the nature in an artificial environment, where the one can bate in beautiful sun beam or rain water drop - like light shower, - ignoring the fact that even the harmful impact of the man interfering the nature at the era of the anthropocene can turn into aesthetically pleasing experience.
“ # “ also contemplates on the role of the artist as an activist, or a designer who is aiming for aesthetically pleasing outcome; art for the art only? It also observes the man in the contemporary society and the highly productive consumer lifestyles are metaphorically presented in this installation while being manufactured of a left-over straws from the FLOW festival.The usage of the straws were banned in US (2018) which was the one of the most of visible action toward more sustainable lifestyles in our everyday highly productive yet trivial routines.
This continuing into our daily consumption in media and social media platforms here revealing the subtext of the narrative of our 24/7 attention span even concerning the most vital issues, beyond a phenomena, such as #climatechange. In these self-constructed bubbles we love to bate and dwell in a name of the greenwash, -, therefore the fact-based information are revealed only after the experience it-self as a projection by the info text in a wall. The present meeting the past, even in a format of the “yesterdays news” will be transformed into holistic experience of a delicate ambiance that will alienate us from the truth when desired; just by following the pattern, -including our circadian rhythm,- in a form of light and audio.
Audioscape is a sonification from the same tweets. It reacts to presence of the audience as a metaphor for the human-interference, - in a poetic realm combining both the low and high frequencies of the machinesand technology through the periods from industrialization to digitalization.
Production in collaboration with Aalto ARTS and Parsons Design School,NY
Work by Bogyeong Kim and Liisi Soroush
︎@ Occupy Earth (Aalto University)
︎2018-19
︎Concept design: Bogyeong Kim / Keist University & Media Lab Aalto and Liisi Soroush / Media Lab Aalto
︎Conceptual philosophy and research: Liisi Soroush
︎Design, technology, code: Bogyeong Kim
︎Tech team and consultation: Krisjanis Rijnieks / Aalto Fablab, Avner Peled / Media Lab Aalto
︎Sound Design: Camilo Sánchez Carranco / Media Lab Aalto and Liisi Soroush
︎Consultation and thanks to:
Roberto Pugliese, Matti Niinimäki / Aalto Media Lab
Lauri Brask / Aalto Fablab
︎Thanks to: Otto Sarpaniemi / Ruoto Catering, Matti Nelimarkka / PhD HIIT, Jussi T. Eronen /Ph.D. University of Helsinki
︎Data resource: The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Their Fate Since 1750
︎Twitter hashtag resource: WWF Finland, Greenpeace Finland
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