This is Climate Change

This is Climate Change (2018) is a Virtual Reality docu-series by Danfung Dennis and Eric Strauss from Participant Media and Condition One, offering a powerful portrayal of the people and places who are hit hardest by global climate change. This immersive experience shines light on the new reality of intense and catastrophic weather events creating natural disasters, with each installment in the series looking at specific events like melting ice in Greenland, wildfires in California, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, and drought causing famine in Somalia. By using VR, the hope is that the audience feels as though they themselves are directly feeling the impacts of climate change. If they look up they will see a crumbling sheet of melting ice, or if they look down they will see a manourished child holding onto their leg, or maybe they cannot see anything through the smoke burning the vegetation all around them. Virtual reality here is meant to cultivate self-awareness and make people feel as though they are there, or that it would be possible for them to be there, to bring them closer to the issue of climate change.

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Air Pollution Robot

The dangers of air pollution to human health are well documented, though the traditional methodology of collecting and reporting on sample lags behind the need to keep abreast and regulate air pollution in a meaningful amount of time. The use of drones and robots have been identified by researchers as resources that can be tweaked […]

Artificial Life, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Industry/Natural Commodities, Lifestyle, Monitoring

Telematic Rivers

Erica Kermani’s artwork seeks to answer a central question: if rivers were seeing an equal, living entity, would humans take issues like climate change threatening them more seriously? In his year-long art exhibition in 2017, Kermani, in collaboration with Diana Salcedo & Jeana Chesnik, created a new forum of interaction between humans and rivers to […]

Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Lifestyle, Monitoring, Pollution, Visual Technologies

Co-occupied Boundaries

Art is easily found in nature but rarely is what considered art today inherently natural. The concept of co-occupied mediums that serve to be both functional for nature and aesthetically pleasing to people is being actively explored by Asya Ilgun and Phil Ayres, from the CITAstudio at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In […]

Climate Change, Ecological Monitoring, Lifestyle, Monitoring, Pollution, Visual Technologies