Disruptive devices

Abstract

Disruptive Devices is a triptych of digital kinetic artworks that mediate viewer interactions with virtual wildlife. Our current economic system is set up to treat nature as an infinite resource, disturbing ecosystems in unsustainable ways, often using technology as a tool to amplify these disturbances. This piece invites viewers to contemplate this relationship through a surreal lens. Each of the three machines combines a physical hand mechanism controlled by the viewer via a crank wheel that interacts with a virtual natural environment.