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The Swamp Observatory<\/em> installation at the Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics<\/a><\/em> exhibition, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, at the Center for Art and Media, ZKM in Karlsruhe, plays with the idea of the \u201creturn of a Swamp\u201d. Four swampian figures –  Biotope Model<\/em>, Time Stack<\/em>, Olfactory Crevasse<\/em> and Swamp Brain<\/em> constitute a hybrid artistic-scientific model, or the instrument, that presents swamp as interface to Gaia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swamp Observatory<\/em>. Mixed media installation, data visualization, AI module, video projections, peat, ox bladder, resin cast, dimensions variable. Urbonas Studio, MIT CV \u00a9 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced in collaboration with the ZKM \/ Karlsruhe; and the MIT Climate Visions \/ Cambridge, MA. Artists: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. Research: Nikola Boji\u0107, Kristupas Sabolius. Architecture: Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117. Fabrication: Simona Ka\u010dinskait\u0117, Rytis Urbanskas. Drawings: Serge Rompza. Scientific advisors and data: Vesta Aleknavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 \/ Vytautas Magnus University \/ Kaunas, J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117 \/ Nature Research Centre \/ Institute of Botany \/ Lithuania. Processing programming: Thomas Sanchez Lengeling \/ MIT Media Lab. AI module: Jonas Kubilius, Three Thirds \/ Lithuania. Smell: Jurga Katakinait\u0117-Jakubauskien\u0117 and Reda Valentinavi\u010dien\u0117. Support: Arts at MIT and Philip Khoury, Associate Provost for the Arts, Gintaras Rapkauskas and Sigita Kantautien\u0117 \/ Durpeta UAB \/ Lithuania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The installation grows into a parasitic structure on the architectural envelope of the ZKM exhibition space. The figures in the installation are made of peat\u2014decomposed and carbonized vegetation and organic matter found in swamps\u2014the most efficient carbon sink on the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As an altered sensorial organism the installation acts beyond exclusive human control, it drags the audience into a holobiontic relationship between natural, cultural, material, and immaterial swampian nodes, raising our awareness of its networked relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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