Techno-Ecologies for a Fragile Earth reflects on the “three ecologies” of philosopher Félix Guattari as an urgent call to reduce the negative human impact on the environment, society and mind. Also, it extends Guattari’s visionary manifesto with “two more ecologies” specific to human-machine symbiosis, such as techno-ecology and techno-nostalgia.
What if recycling could be a language of collective resistance in the face of global crisis? What if our senses and thoughts could decode digital illusions? What if techno-ecology and techno-nostalgia were the key to future sustainability?
These are just some of the questions that the project addresses through a call for commitment and resilience. It invites us to reimagine and build a more sustainable future—one shaped by creativity, courage, critical thinking, and openness to transformation!
Signal Corps / Paul Babencu - Photo: Paul Babencu
Exhibition
Techno-Ecologies for a Fragile Earth
Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timisoara (RO)
Unsolved Patterns
Andreea Pleșa (RO), Mihaela Vișovan (RO)
The video installation Unsolved Patterns draws on the textile heritage of the city of Timișoara and creates a parallel with today’s fast fashion industry, which leads to the loss of craftsmanship, the devaluation of labor, and the accelerated growth of textile waste.
Techno-Nostalgia. Lost & Found
Elena Ilin (RO), Matei Negruțiu (RO), Bianca Pascu (RO), Callista Birta (RO), Daniela A. Radu (RO), Andrei Bucovanu (RO), Francisco Jardim Henriques (PT)
The short film selection Techno-Nostalgia. Lost & Found captures the emotional echoes of a collapsing world, confronting ecological anxiety through a techno-nostalgia intermediated by video-camera that becomes a lens for healing, transformation, and renewed ecological engagement.
Omnilateral Dimensions
Deian Berar (RO)
The interactive and immersive installation Omnilateral Dimensions envisions speculative environments that challenge existing boundaries between the organic and the synthetic as integrated systems based on mutual awareness and coexistence beyond technological dominance or dependency.
Signal Corps
Paul Babencu (RO)
The interactive installation Signal Corps reveals the role of individuals in building a social ecology rooted in resilience, ethics and active participation in a process of media recycling as an act of creating resilient information ecosystems against the war of disinformation.
Scents of Nothingness
Bogdan Matei (RO)
The video-audio installation Scents of Nothingness investigates the boundaries between the real and the virtual through a sensory and mental ecology, manifested in a reality saturated with technologically mediated perception and digital illusions.
Credits
A project powered by Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timisoara, Center for Research and Creation in Decorative Arts and Design (CCCADD), and Creative Center of Contemporary Visual Arts (CCAVC) I Dean Prof. Dr. Diana Andreescu Coordinating team: Techno-Ecologies for a Fragile Earth, Lect. univ. dr. Aura Bălănescu, Conf. univ. dr. Ion Gherman I Techno-Nostalgia. Lost & Found, Lect. univ. dr. Ioana Dorobantu-Gordon and Conf. univ. dr. Dan Rațiu I futureframes.tm, curators: Asist. univ. dr. Amalia Gaiță and Lector. univ. dr. Mădălin Mărienuț
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