Title: Anachronic Landscapes
Artist(s): Curime Batliner and Jake Newsum with Paralelo Architectos
Source: Creative Applications
Sense(s): visual, installation
Issue(s): biodiversity, ecosystem automation
This piece both visibilises and critiques the problematic nature of industrial and urban development, particularly critical of the ‘cities of the future’ focus of neoliberal urban policy.
1 For the artists, many of these urban developments ‘are cementing reductive infrastructure at global scale for eternity’.2 The installation problematises this relationship by setting up an ecosystem in an abandoned industrial building. This symbolises how nature can take over these former spaces. However, within the installation is also an industrial robot that waters the ecosystem, and gives it light on a schedule. This represents the human dimension to ‘managing’ nature. Indeed ‘while the machine keeps the plants alive it simultaneously ignites a process of transformation forcing the plants to adapt to the new condition’.3 Therefore, it visibilises co-evolutionary processes, reminding the audience of human responsibility for industrial and ecological matters.
- Reference: https://www.creativeapplications.net/robotics/anachronic-landscapes-automation-and-coevolution-in-nature/
- Reference: https://www.creativeapplications.net/robotics/anachronic-landscapes-automation-and-coevolution-in-nature/
- Reference: https://www.creativeapplications.net/robotics/anachronic-landscapes-automation-and-coevolution-in-nature/