Image courtesy: European Cultural Centre, Photo: Federico Vespignani
This project straddles the physical and virtual worlds
Palazzo Mora Installation Venice Italy
Virtual Reality Environment
Fueled by geospatial datasets, animations and digital constructions enfold you in a cinematic narrative of place and time in which the unceasing forces underlying global sea levels are the creative energy that generate multi sensory immersive visuals.
Conceptually, the project references the datum line, the theoretical line used to measure sea level rise and fall.
Installation studies Venice Italy Time Space Existence
Formally, it recalls the birth of linear perspective in 15th century Renaissance Italy. This invention changed the way humans interpreted the world around them and has been linked to the start of the Anthropocene Epoch, the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity began to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems.
Simultaneously launched in Venice Italy and Fort Lauderdale USA, the project creates a technology bridge between two cities geographically disconnected and seemingly unrelated. But climate change is blind to human constructs of culture and borders, and these two low lying regions are of the most vulnerable to changing sea levels.
Datum Line is a window into the indeterminate landscape of climate change
Datum Line
year: 2023
place: Palazzo Mora, Venice Italy
PROJECT TEAM
CONCEPT AND PRODUCTION BY NARDULI STUDIO
MAD LABS: Media Collaboration / VR Environment
EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE: Exhibition Partner
EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE and OpenSpaceVenice: Sponsors
Site-specific installation ECC Venice Architecture Biennial Exhibition TIME SPACE EXISTENCE at Palazzo Mora
