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<\/p>\nAn online discussion between artists Deniz Tortum and Amy Balkin tackles how the ideas of colonial capture, crowdsourcing, collecting, and computationalism inform explorations into preservation and the future.<\/p>\n
They will walk the participants into the significant role of technology and archiving at the face of climate change.<\/p>\n
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Tortum, a Turkish director, screenwriter, and multimedia artist, will expound on his work in collaboration with British director Kathryn Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Entitled Our Ark, the 12-minute-25-second digital cinema packaging serves as an essay film on the efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.<\/p>\n
This includes 3D models of animals, rainforests, cities and its inhabitants, to archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through a digital Noah\u2019s Ark of beasts and objects.<\/p>\n
It delves into the conflict of the simulation hypothesis, which argues that we live in an artificial world rather than in reality.<\/p>\n
The enthusiasm that may be explained by the nihilism of the Earth\u2019s current trajectory.<\/p>\n
Our Ark, which received the Best Short Film Award at the 2022 Istanbul Film Festival, is currently exhibited at MCAD\u2019s ongoing exhibition Adaptation: A Reconnected Earth.<\/p>\n
The show proposes an approach to determine the present within the realities of a changed climate, a despairing planet and a recently renewed humanity.<\/p>\n
Balkin, an American cross-disciplinary artist, will likewise speak of her project A People\u2019s Archive of Sinking and Melting.<\/p>\n
It is a growing amalgamation of materials contributed by residents living in uninhabitable places that may disappear.<\/p>\n
This may be due to the combined physical, political, and economic impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, erosion, desertification, and glacial melting.<\/p>\n
As of 2023, it includes pieces from Antarctica, Cape Verde, Cuba, Greenland, Honduras, Iceland, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Komi in Russia and Alaska and New Orleans in the USA.<\/p>\n
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Tortum dwells in film and immersive media. His creations have been screened internationally, including at the Venice Film Festival, SxSW, IFFR, IDFA, Sheffield Doc\/Fest, Hot Docs, True\/False and Dokufest. In 2019, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine\u2019s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.<\/p>\n
His latest feature Phases of Matter (2020) received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals.<\/p>\n
A researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, he focused on immersive media.<\/p>\n
Balkin\u2019s work combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique to generate ambitious, bold, and innovative ways of conceiving the public domain outside current legal and discursive systems.<\/p>\n
Her projects propose a reconstituted commons, considering legal borders and systems, environmental justice, and equitable sharing of common-pool resources in the context of climate change.<\/p>\n
Her documentation has been included in Rights of Nature at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015, Kunsthal Aarhus in 2015; Les Abattoirs in 2015; dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012; Mills College Art Museum in 2015; and Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2016.<\/p>\n
Her publications include Decolonizing Nature (2016); Art in the Anthropocene (2015); Materiality (2015); and Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (2015).<\/p>\n
Hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, the lecture will be moderated by Margarita Villanueva, the manager of the conservation laboratory of the Lopez Museum and Library.<\/p>\n
It is free and open to the public. It will be conducted online via Zoom on Thursday, May 25, 2023, 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Interested participants may register at https:\/\/forms.gle\/VR83SdjPDoBx3ohM8<\/a>.<\/p>\n