NEW PUBLICATION Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to Marine Pollution, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021
Edited by Ingeborg Reichle Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic. This publication brings together numerous international art projects related to environmental activities, DIY biotechnology, and science, and draws attention to the irreversible destruction of our marine ecosystems – the current threat posed by the loss of marine animal biodiversity, for example, or the decline in oxygen production due to massive plankton loss, to raise awareness about the impact of mass consumerism and environmental injustice, from which countries of the Global South are suffering disproportionately. It also presents current scientific findings on sustainable alternatives to plastic. With contributions by Dianna Cohen, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Regine Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Mary Maggic, Robertina Šebjanič, Brandon Ballengée, Victoria Vesna, Martina R. Fröschl, Alfred Vendl, Reiner Maria Matysik, Ingeborg Reichle, Thomas Schwaha, Stephan Handschuh, María Antonia González Valerio, Rosaura Martínez Ruiz, Pinar Yoldas, and Michael Sauer. Table of contents 07 | Acknowledgments 08 | Introduction: Who Lives in the Plastisphere? Art and Science Responses to Plastic Pollution, Ingeborg Reichle 20 | Downhill from Everywhere: Plastic Pollution Coalition and the Force of Art, Dianna Cohen and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor 40 | Artistic Research and Ecology: Pollution, Plastic, Water, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz 62 | Toxic Plastic Politics: Rethinking Plastic Pollution through Art and Activism, Ingeborg Reichle 79 | From An Ecosystem of Excess to Hollow Ocean: Affective Learning in the Service of EcoActivism, Pinar Yoldas 98 | All Washed Over by Hormones of Loving Grace, Mary Maggic 112 | Some Working Notes on Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf, Brandon Ballengée 134 | Aquatocene: A Subaquatic Quest for Serenity, Robertina Šebjanič 156 | NOISE AQUARIUM: Iterations, Variations, and Responsive Ecotistical Work, Victoria Vesna 178 | Computer-Animated Fluidity for Stiff Datasets and the Visualization of Underwater Noise, Martina R. Fröschl and Alfred Vendl 196 | From Live Imaging to 3D Modeling: A Guide to Documentation and Processing of Planktonic Organisms, Thomas Schwaha and Stephan Handschuh 212 | I AM A RADIOLARIAN, Reiner Maria Matysik 228 | Meta Instructions to Instructions to Build a Species: Performing Philosophy through Arts, María Antonia González Valerio and Rosaura Martínez Ruiz 248 | About »Bio-« to Alleviate the Detrimental Impacts of Plastics on the Sea, Michael Sauer 265 | Notes on Contributors Electronic ISBN: 9783110744774 Hardcover ISBN: 9783110744729 Date: June 21, 2021 Language: English Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021 Pages: 272, 160 colored illustrations Format: 20 x 25 cm Keywords: Anthropocene; contemporary art; marine research; ecological crisis; visualization https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110744774/html -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
