Echoes of the Past, Promises of the Future
Echoes of the Past, Promises of the Future, how nature is sublimated by digital technology through the eyes of fifteen artists. The exhibition invites us to reconnect with a forgotten nature and preserve its memory.
Our memory of nature gradually fades with the passage of time, and, without realizing it, people become accustomed to a constant degradation of the environment. Each generation takes the natural environment they encounter in their childhood as the norm. American psychologist Peter H. Kahn has called this psychological phenomenon "environmental generational amnesia". To combat this gradual forgetting, researchers have joined forces to devise a way of writing history from an ecological perspective in order to reconnect with nature.
A collective intelligence of artists and scientists is using new technologies, especially digital technology, as a means to reconnect with a forgotten state of nature and to preserve people's memory of it.
The exhibition features the work of around fifteen artists in a wide range of media 鈥� painting, video, tapestry, installation, virtual reality, sculpture, and more 鈥� in which the artists have been asked to reconcile nature and technology and to rethink our relationship with living things. Presented in three phases, the exhibition begins by recalling past degradations of nature; it goes on to explore nature's ingenuity, as well as its vulnerability, in order to raise awareness of the pressing need to protect it. The third phase presents various speculative futures dreamed up by the artists, in which anticipatory narratives reflect the hope of a symbiotic relationship.
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Echoes of the Past, Promises of the Future, how nature is sublimated by digital technology through the eyes of fifteen artists. The exhibition invites us to reconnect with a forgotten nature and preserve its memory.
Our memory of nature gradually fades with the passage of time, and, without realizing it, people become accustomed to a constant degradation of the environment. Each generation takes the natural environment they encounter in their childhood as the norm. American psychologist Peter H. Kahn has called this psychological phenomenon "environmental generational amnesia". To combat this gradual forgetting, researchers have joined forces to devise a way of writing history from an ecological perspective in order to reconnect with nature.
A collective intelligence of artists and scientists is using new technologies, especially digital technology, as a means to reconnect with a forgotten state of nature and to preserve people's memory of it.
The exhibition features the work of around fifteen artists in a wide range of media 鈥� painting, video, tapestry, installation, virtual reality, sculpture, and more 鈥� in which the artists have been asked to reconcile nature and technology and to rethink our relationship with living things. Presented in three phases, the exhibition begins by recalling past degradations of nature; it goes on to explore nature's ingenuity, as well as its vulnerability, in order to raise awareness of the pressing need to protect it. The third phase presents various speculative futures dreamed up by the artists, in which anticipatory narratives reflect the hope of a symbiotic relationship.
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