Futuresonic Future Everything 2

Along with current and future uses of digital and social media, Futuresonic displayed numerous artworks at the CUBE gallery, all about this year’s theme of Environment 2.0. The artworks varied wildly, from a public reading of the intergovernmental panel for climate change 2007 report (which I took part in, reading for 20min), to plates patterned with the smog of a city. One of the more interesting artworks was a working design for a living carbon dioxide fuse. A power point was linked to a number of plants, and a fuse, that only allowed you to use as much electricity as the plants were off setting. For a basic table lamp and four average sized plants, this equalled to about a minute of light every half hour. If you wanted to use more power you would have to link up more plants. This was a great illustration of just how much CO2 is produced when using electricity compared to how much can be sequestered by individual plants.