Beginning with a pitch-black screen, the film's opening moves the viewer through shades of blue, eventually transforming before our eyes into vast seascape.
Michaela Schwentner' s work shows images of the Großglockner, based on nine minute of compressed webcam material, initially recorded over several months.
Oil Standard is a Firefox plug-in that converts all prices on a webpage into barrels of crude oil, exploring the moment when oil replace(d) gold as the standard by which we trade all goods and currencies.
Drifting Islands is a joint discussion organised by transmediale.09, 'Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre' and Leonardo/Olats 'Lovely Weather' project.
What are the artworks that are addressing those issues, and how?
How do people from different geographic zones, living on islands, relate to those trends?
How different are the issues in Iceland, say, or the Mediterranean and Pacific?
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