paper trees
Eva-Maria Lopez in cooperation with Maija Demitere and ASTE.gallery
The tree, an important element in biodiversity, is placed in relation to paper consumption in the artwork. Augmented reality is used to create virtual linden trees (Tilia cordata) and paper stacks. The paper stacks show the relationship of the tree as a producer of raw materials. For the global climate, the consumption of wood – for a daily product like paper – plays an important role, because every 5th tree is felled just for paper. In Germany, 55 kg of graphic paper, such as copy paper, is consumed per person and per year. The 12 virtual trees are therefore only enough for the annual needs of about 60 persons.
With AR, paper trees visualises the connection between nature’s resources and our own consumption in a new way.
SensUs – ….
Curated by Rasa Smite and Daria Mille. Artists: xxxx
Rasa Smite is a Karlsruhe and Riga based artist, researcher and curator, working on the edge of art, science, and techno-ecologies. She is co-founder and co-chair of recently founded Karlsruhe based NAIA – Naturally Artificial Intellgence Art association. She also is co-founder of Riga based RIXC Art Science Center, and publisher of Acoustic Space/Renewable Futures, peer-reviewed journal & book series.
Rasa Smite holds PhD, she currently is a professor of Media Art and Creative Technologies at Liepaja University, Latvia, and researcher at FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland. She also has been lecturer at MIT ACT (Art, Culture, Technology program) in Boston, US (2018-2021), and guest professor at HfG – Karlsruhe (2019-2020).
In her artistic practice Rasa Smite works together with Raitis Smits, they are co-authors of Atmospheric Forest (2020), an immersive artwork visualizing the complex relations between the forest ecosystem affected by climate change, and atmospheric processes.
http://sensusart.rixc.org
Die Hochzeit von Himmel und Hölle
Gerardo Nolasco-Rózsás
The title of this project is an homage to the book of the same name by poet William Blake which was written during a time of great political and social change due to the French Revolution. The AR-performance has two cartoon characters as the main actors: A hippopotamus (Rousseaus noble savage) is dancing with a crocodile (Thomas Hobbes Leviathan). This dance is the starting point for a reflection on our own personal natural state.