Seambiotic Hacking/ Into Blue Futures
together with Karolina Thakker, Marieke Leene and Santa Ramagerisonvideo installation: ambient installation, speculative scripted advertisement, speculative product prototypes, dimensions variable, 2022 presented at Worlding the Hydrosphere exhibition, as part of the Media Medditerannea festival, Pula; mentors: Maja Grakalić and Peter Purg
As we lose the faith in authorities to protect us from the consequences of environmental destruction, how do we take power into our hands? This project is a speculativefuture scenario come to life, where the failure of large-scale surveillance systems has led to the decentralization of power. To save Mediterranean Sea life, groups of activists have begun to augment themselves and other species. The breakthroughs in bioengineering increased the availability of open-source tools and resources resulting in the rise of DIY solutions.
People have begun to use that technology to connect with nature, but as it progressed they developed ideas on how to use it for quick financial benefits, crime, fun, or use their bodies as canvas highlighting the environmental imbalance. Others helped nature to fight back culminating in some of the sea life regaining power. The sea (h)activists are still a small community and their unregulated ways of working clash with the governmental institutions and corporations.