Second Nature

With the uprise of mobile devices, the infra-structural needs of the telecommunication industry have exploded, and since...
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Author: Işık Kaya
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Language: English
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Second Nature by Kaya, Işık

Second Nature

$99.81

Second Nature

$99.81
Author: Işık Kaya
Format: Paperback
Language: English
With the uprise of mobile devices, the infra-structural needs of the telecommunication industry have exploded, and since the 1980s, cell towers have started to fill the planet. The scenery changed dramatically when an antenna was transformed into an artificial pine tree for the first time in 1992. Since then, this kind of camouflage has evolved into a global phenom-enon that raises fundamental questions about the relationship between humans and nature. The images from the series Second Nature focus on cell tower trees that became part of the Southern California landscape. The series depicts these artefacts of the digital age as, in Amy Clarke's words, a societal preference for >fakeugly

Author: Işık Kaya
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Published: 09/27/2022
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 12.80h x 9.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9783969000564

About the Author
Kaya: - Işık Kaya (b. 1990) is a lens-based media artist whose practice explores the ways in which humans shape the contemporary landscape. She focuses on traces of economic infrastructures to examine politics in built environments and how man's dominance over nature finds its manifestation in everyday architecture.
Işık Kaya holds an MFA degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA degree in Photography & Videography from Istanbul Bilgi University. Blank, Thomas Georg: - Thomas Georg Blank (b. 1990, Germany), was first trained in cultural and media education focusing on photography before studying art in Karlsruhe and Mexico City. Moving between research and speculative interpretations, Blank explores how spatial and habitual representations of individual and collective imagination affect the world we're living in and vice versa.Mahayni, Ziad: - As a philosopher, speaker and author Ziad Mahayni (b.1971) analyses the digital revolution and its impact on business, society and the human. He currenty oorks as Deputy Professor for Entrepreneurship at the University od Applied Sciences and Arts in Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany.

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