Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic.
This publication brings together numerous international art projects related to environmental activities, DIY biotechnology, and science, and draws attention to the irreversible destruction of our marine ecosystems – the current threat posed by the loss of marine animal biodiversity, for example, or the decline in oxygen production due to massive plankton loss. It also presents current scientific findings on sustainable alternatives to plastic.
Author(s): Ingeborg Reichle
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 267
City: Berlin
Contents
Acknowledgments
Who Lives in the Plastisphere? Art and Science Responses to Plastic Pollution
»Downhill from Everywhere«: Plastic Pollution Coalition and the Force of Art
Artistic Research and Ecology: Pollution, Plastic, Water
Toxic Plastic Politics: Rethinking Plastic Pollution through Art and Activism
From An Ecosystem of Excess to Hollow Ocean: Affective Learning in the Service of EcoActivism
All Washed Over by Hormones of Loving Grace
Some Working Notes on Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf
Aquatocene: A Subaquatic Quest for Serenity
NOISE AQUARIUM: Iterations, Variations, and Responsive Ecotistical Work
Computer-Animated Fluidity for Stiff Datasets and the Visualization of Underwater Noise
From Live Imaging to 3D Modeling: A Guide to Documentation and Processing of Planktonic Organisms
I AM A RADIOLARIAN
Meta Instructions to Instructions to Build a Species: Performing Philosophy through Arts
About »Bio-« to Alleviate the Detrimental Impacts of Plastics on the Seas
Notes on Contributors
