With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
At ISEA 2010, the International Symposium on Electronic Arts, media artists and media researchers from all over the world present their work in Dortmund (Germany). This year, many projects focus on the relationship between man and nature and man and technology. An overview of contemporary artistic practices of NextNature at ISEA 2010.
This article was originally published by JoLynn Braley on The Fit Shack and slightly edited for Next Nature.
Have you ever noticed the ingredient “natural flavor” listed on a food label? I’ve read it on the label of ground turkey that I purchased in the past, as well as listed on various other food items. I didn’t think much of it and now I realize that I was definitely uninformed.
Perhaps there was a part of me that did not want to question it, but I did think that it meant what it said, that it truly was natural. I have since learned by reading “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser, that natural flavoring is anything but natural.
