The screening Series “From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures” will take place from July 29 till September 9 at post.moma.org, The Museum of Modern Art’s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context.   

From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures presents a selection 15 film and video works that will be made available in three parts from July 29 till September 9.

In this selection, available to watch from July 29 to August 12, artists reflect upon the role infrastructures of energy play in implementation of (geo) politics and emphasize the effects that exerts on the environment. 

Organized by Lukas Brasiskis, New York University in the Department of Cinema Studies, and Inga Lāce, Curator, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, this series presents a selection of 15 works, including Latvian artists Ieva Epnere, Rasa Šmite un Raitis Šmits.

Pond Battery (2015) by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits visualizes more contemporary ways of energy production. The electric sound intervenes the seemingly idyllic landscape after the artists installed six microbial fuels in the pond of the Botanical Garden of the University of Latvia in Riga. Images of the measurements of bacteria’ electrical fluctuations were used to make the invisible activity visible and audible. A process of the generation of electricity was translated into live sound and image structures, providing an aesthetic perspective on the interaction between nature and technology, ecological systems and electronic networks, human and micro-worlds. The collected data from the seven-month long observation period is the footage and sound for the structural film and creates a sensual and emotional experience—a poetics of green energy.

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Available: July 29 – September 9, 2020

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