Abstract

Presentation Context:

“Nexus” is a motion graphic project in which I explore the relationship between nature and technology. Navigating through the spatio-temporal evolution of consciousness from self-duplicating singular cells to complex organisms, human’s distinctive cognitive attributes have been developed to set our domain in-between. Humankind is an environment maker with the capability of abstract thinking. With the ability to think beyond its own scale, humans are powerful agents in terms of shaping geographies.

Our relationship with nature is like a matrix; in which the capacity of creating new possibilities and species, surrounds humankind in an environment formed as the web of life. Therefore, standing in the middle of these relations, we are the “Nexus”. Social connections are spread out throughout Planet Earth on both temporal and spatial levels, allowing humans to act as a creative force. In an allegorical sense, just like fire, water, air and soil do; humans make environments by their mobility and physical bodies. Our biosphere cohabitates myriad organic life forms from micro to macro scale. The Earth’s fauna and flora served as a vast resource in terms of carbon-based chemical ground to manifest compound life forms. However, through the course of planetary history, natural entities are governed by a linear economy paradigm; taking, making and wasting in an irreversible fashion. Nature is appropriated as both a resource and a sink. Exploitation of various life forms are utilized for financial accumulation. Therefore, a new form of man-made global system came into play: Capitalism. Capitalist agenda has displaced fauna and flora off of the global ecosystem into work, to work for itself with nothing to offer in return but severe harm in the long run, it seeks to maximize

profit. In the midst of our existential crisis, the illusionary nature of the technological interface captures every moment of our life. Despite the sixth mass extinction we are in, at the expense of our environment and other life forms that we share in our ecosystem, exploitation doesn’t even slow down. No matter how bright technology looks, could our emancipation from nature be possible without annihilation?