unseen data and human connections – it’s also about how a tree feels
Amsterdam/Helsinki Finnish Futurism Performing Arts
Risto Linturi is a synthesizer, using crowd-sourcing to gather people’s ideas and feedback. While he spends a great deal of time thinking about technology, he has an appreciation of the outdoors and of ants, in particular. «We are all but ants and it takes a lot of ants to build a proper anthill – and there is no other way to do it but by unifying our ideas through communication», Linturi says from his cottage in the Finnish countryside.
Thijs Biersteker is speaking from the museum where he is finishing the build out of his latest installation: Turning complex environmental data into a tangible experience can help people understand what we are at stake of losing. During the pandemic, there were less eyes on the Amazon basin, and as a result deforestation increased. Concerned by the rise, Biersteker built an installation titled using real-time deforestation rate data that signals the leaves of theBiersteker says.
