Digital Consumption
How do Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) affect the physical world?
NFTs born of the digital realm, consume significant energy and emit significant amounts of carbon dioxide. In Digital Consumption, a computer program used data on global carbon dioxide emissions to morph a miner's photo into a haze of black and grey. The artists Edson Alberto Reyna Gurrola and Luis Contreras comment thus on the industrialisation of their hometown, Monterrey, Mexico. The final mosaic of photos enmeshes both—the mining of NFTs, and the physical mines that power them.
Medium: Projection, Javascript Code
Year: 2022
Team
Edson Reyna
Edson Reyna and Luis Contreras are biotechnology engineering graduates from Tecnológico de Monterrey University in México. They are bio-artists and members of the Bioart Steering Group at International Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) and members of the Laboratory of Art Science and Technology. Their work is related to the intersection of biotechnology techniques with arts to create conscience about our world and see synthetic biology as an opportunity for design.
Luis Contreras
Edson Reyna and Luis Contreras are biotechnology engineering graduates from Tecnológico de Monterrey University in México. They are bio-artists and members of the Bioart Steering Group at International Genetically Engineered Machine (IGEM) and members of the Laboratory of Art Science and Technology. Their work is related to the intersection of biotechnology techniques with arts to create conscience about our world and see synthetic biology as an opportunity for design.
