BichEden: Folds

© Pat Badani ; Pat Badani

Pat Badani

BichEden: Folds ,
Co-workers & Funding
Mariel Martinez (3D Modeling)
Documents
  • BichEden: Folds
    video/mp4
    1920 × 1080
Description
“BichEden: Folds” uses philosophy of ecology and scientific concepts related to food web communities as empirical grounding for associative thinking in the creation of imaginative 3D visualizations. Driven by how the Anthropocene extinction is perceived and experienced, the work explores visual narratives inspired by disrupted species interactions in marine food chains. Invested in a process of learning about the importance of relationships within a community of organisms, “BichEden: Folds” probes edges that meet and ‘fold’ (diminish, reduce, withdraw) and ‘unfold’ (increase, grow) like an origami, driven by a set of questions related to food web energy flows: What are the new edges and convergences? How to differentiate between the various forms of edge? How to extend these nuances of edge into the future? Involved in imagining possible new worlds, knowledges, and subjectivities - worlds in which many worlds might fit - the work’s dark and light angles, folds, and slashes represent layered transitions marked by conformities, nonconformities, paraconformities, and disconformities.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • assembled
    • experimental
    • narrative
    • remediated
    • sculptural
    • three-dimensional
    • uncanny
    • virtual
    • visual
  • genres
    • bioart
    • conceptual art
    • digital animation
    • ecological art
    • hybrid art
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
    • Arts and Visual Culture
    • Nature and Environment
    • Society and Culture
  • technology
    • software
Technology & Material
Software
Blender: free and open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography