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DRIVING THE HUMAN ART, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION AND FESTIVAL In collaboration with ASCUS Art & Science, Edinburgh and Ray Interactive UK The multimedia works have been commissioned by ‘Driving the Human’, Germany. Driving the Human, is a joint initiative of ZKM | Museum & Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Forecast Berlin, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering Germany and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Germany. Presented on the occasion of ‘Driving the Human Festival’ at Radialsystem Berlin. Supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany. October 2021, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany | ||||
 THE ROOTED SEA, 3 CHANNEL VIDEO INSTALLATION WITH SOUND, 3D SCANNING, ANIMATION AND GRAPHICS, ALONG WITH ‘LIVING SCULPTURES’ OF SOIL & CULTURES OF MICROORGANISMS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF GROWTH. | ||||
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THE ROOTED SEA The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures is an ongoing interdisciplinary inquiry into the fragile and endangered coastal ecosystems and wetland habitats of India and Scotland, and their vital role in building resilience to climate change. The project is led by multidisciplinary artist and researcher Sonia Mehra Chawla and creative producer, Miriam Walsh (ASCUS Art & Science) in collaboration with UK based creative technologists Ray Interactive. The project stems from two incongruent yet interwoven futuristic imageries of anthropogenic impact on the planet: the desiccated planet and the submerged world. By mapping these two contrasting scenarios (droughts and floods), this project brings into focus the organisms and technologies that inhabit these spaces, while exploring the intertwined ecologies of human and nonhuman lives through entanglements of nature, culture, politics, industry, and economics. The Rooted Sea alerts us to the need to subject our visions of anthropocentric, nature-depletive notions of progress and development, to critique. In bearing witness to an unprecedented moment in the history of the planet, the exhibition brings together a multiplicity of impulses, observations and responses ranging from photography, trans-media installations, microbial cultures and ‘living’ sculptures, photomicrography, and technologies such as 3D scanning, to documentary cinematic studies of marginalised groups whose eco-sensitive occupations have suffered as a result of the decline in their environment. How can we leverage the power of science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach to help give coastal wetlands and their microbial worlds a warming, collective voice? How can we build a system that puts care-based labour at the core of an entangled more-than-human biosphere? How can we connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in society? How can we inhabit our world in new, non-toxic ways? http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/yin INSTALLATION IMAGES SONIA MEHRA'S PROJECT |
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| DRIVING THE HUMAN, GERMANY Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. From 2020 to 2023, the scientific and artistic collaboration Driving the Human develops and produces seven tangible prototypes responding to complex contemporary scenarios. The project is jointly led by four partner institutions – acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Forecast, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe – and relies on the expert knowledge and skills of their combined networks. Together, these partners will work to enrich the various developments and outcomes of the initiative. Following its first public presentation in November 2020, Driving the Human launched an open call, inviting several participants – designers, artists and other multidisciplinary agents – to engage with these knowledge networks and multidisciplinary know-how, in order to develop future-proof concepts and test them as prototypes. The seven final prototypes can materialize in different ways: from walk-in room installations to designed objects, architectural mock-ups to interactive games, video works to performances, and many others. Throughout 2023, the community of participants, experts, and the larger audience that Driving the Human brings together will explore diverse phenomena such as the social impact of global warming, energy cycles and technology-driven disruptions, the impact of collective decision making, and contemporary processes of exchanging values and objects. The results of these explorations will be shared and communicated over the project’s three-year duration, and will deploy strategies for action in the form of physical experiences, with a strong individual and collective impact. Ultimately, they will create tools that enable new ways of envisioning and inhabiting the world. THE ROOTED SEA: HALOPHYTIC FUTURES (Click here) 21 SELECTED CONCEPTS (Click here) “WE WANT TO BUILD A SYSTEM THAT PUTS CARE-BASED LABOR AT THE CORE OF AN ENTANGLED MORE-THAN-HUMAN BIOSPHERE” (Click here) DRIVING THE HUMAN FESTIVAL, RADIALSYSTEM BERLIN 2021  Driving the Human’s 21 selected concepts present a diverse understanding of our times and propose prescient visions for sustainable cohabitation. They explore the connections between technology and nature, artificial intelligence, circular economy, new modes of knowledge exchange and production, indigenous knowledge, and more-than-human perspectives from the bacterial to the interplanetary. Overall, they reinforce the importance of collaboration and interdependency as essential factors for survival. Hosted by Forecast at radialsystem in Berlin, Driving the Human: 21 Visions for Eco-social Renewal was a three-day festival proposing a varied array of formats. Through immersive experiences and interactive installations; focused readings and embodied knowledge; riveting screenings and stimulating performances, the festival advanced proposals for some of the most pressing issues of our time. | ||||
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 PANEL TALK FROM BACTERIA TO ECOSYSTEMS Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 5:10 PM Venue: Auditorium, Radialsystem Berlin From Bacteria to Ecosystems with Anne-Sofie Belling, Bea Delgado Corrales, Romy Kaiser, Paula Nerlich (Human-Bacteria Interfaces), Sonia Mehra Chawla, Miriam Walsh (The Rooted Sea: Halophytic Futures), Clara Acioli (RUM_A: Multispecies Urban Refuge in Cluster) Moderated by Julia Ihls (Director, Bio Design Lab, Karlsruhe, Germany) | ||||
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