GMU:Sustainable Aesthetics/Jennifer Alice Soggia

Understanding of Sustainable Aesthetics

Subjectively speaking, the words have two different meanings, which can collide into one understanding.

• Sustainability can be seen as taking eco-friendly ressources and giving it life and therefore great purposes. For example recycling/ upcycling. By using what is already there, we get to make materials or objects more long lasting, without creating new waste.
• The aesthetics is what makes the sustainable into some kind of art form. Giving it new life, new meanings and perspectives. Since aesthetic is subjective, the creator has freedom in its expressions and can chose how the art work is presented. Making it a sustainable aesthetic.

Past: memories Present: act of doing Future: relevance

Experiments

Documentation of microbial fuel cell

Building a Joule Thief

References

• The Martian Garden, https://www.themartiangarden.com
• NASA https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/meals_ready_to_eat/
• Hito Steyerl - Ausstellung, https://www.museum-joanneum.at/kunsthaus-graz/ausstellungen/ausstellungen/events/event/10951/hito-steyerl
• In Kepler's Gardens, https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/the-biosphere-project/
• Klaus Herbst, Pflanzfabrik, https://www.instagram.com/pflanzfabrik/?hl=en
• Living Alone for 2 Years in a Biosphere, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaSRIR9AjFU
• How to build a terrarium, Beginners Guide: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jL3QP4hTA&t=329s
• Plastic art: [1]

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