Gardens of the Anthropocene
Augmented Reality Installation in public space by Tamiko Thiel, 2016 – 2017: http://tamikothiel.com/gota/. Originally commissioned for the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park in summer 2016. The augmented reality (AR) installation "Gardens of the Anthropocene" posits a science fictio...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/31520 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/31520 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Literatura Literature Environmental science Medio ambiente |
| Sumario: | Augmented Reality Installation in public space by Tamiko Thiel, 2016 – 2017: http://tamikothiel.com/gota/. Originally commissioned for the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park in summer 2016. The augmented reality (AR) installation "Gardens of the Anthropocene" posits a science fiction future in which native aquatic and terrestrial plants have mutated to cope with the increasing unpredictable and erratic climate swings. The plants in the installation are all derived from actual native plants in and around the Olympic Sculpture Park that are tolerant respectively to drought on land or to warming sea waters, and are therefore expected to adapt to the increasing temperatures to come. Beyond this actual scientific basis, however, the artwork takes artistic license to imagine a surreal, dystopian scenario in which plants are "mutating" to breach natural boundaries: from photosynthesis of visible light to feeding off of mobile devices' electromagnetic radiation, from extracting nutrients from soil to feeding off man-made structures, and to transgressing boundaries between underwater and dry land, between reactive flora and active fauna. "Gardens of the Anthropocene" has been eradicated in Seattle, but as the plants are native also to the San Francisco Bay Area, they have relocated to the Stanford University campus, between Memorial Auditorium and Hoover Tower, around the Hoover Fountain. Also, installations of red algae have been discovered on the East Coast of the USA, in Brooklyn, NY and Salem, MA. |
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