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An Ecosystem of Excess
Summary
This art and design project explores the concept of an "ecosystem of excess," examining how consumerism and the Anthropocene have created environments saturated with synthetic materials. While artistic rather than scientific, the work engages themes of plastic waste and its environmental legacy.
About the Author: Pınar Yoldaşis an intradisciplinary designer/artist/researcher. Her work develops within biological sciences and digital technologies through architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing with a focus on post-humanism, eco-nihilism, Anthropocene and feminist technoscience. Pınaris a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts and a 2016 FEAT Future Emerging Arts and Technologies Award recipient. Selected exhibitions: “The Warm, the Cool and the Cat” (Roda Sten Konsthall, 2016), “An Ecosystem of Excess”, (Schering Stiftung 2014); NAMOC National Art Museum of Beijing (2014); Transmediale Festival (2014), ExoEvolution (ZKM, 2015), 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015).
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