COCO-lands
2020–2022 (www)
collaborative project
interactive 3D platform and installation
COCO-lands is a growing digital archive of 14 international media artists dealing with the global COVID-19 crisis.
Starting from March 15th 2020, the participants shared their personal reflections on the various forms of isolation from a variety of geographical contexts: from almost complete isolation in Italy, over the strict measures in Austria, to the serious social consequences in the USA and a permanent isolation on a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.
The contributing artists decided to create their digital diaries as a ritual without knowing when the process might end.
Authors
- Smirna Kulenović (BA) – concept curator
- Carla Zamora (AT) – project leader
- Tiio Suorsa (FI) – visual communication manager & web coordinator
- Indiara Di Benedetto (IT) – graphic design & social media
- Iosune Sarasate Azkona (ES) – technical lead & visualisation
Web Development
- Stella Markidi (GR) – web developer
- Juan Pablo Linares Ceballos (CO) – web developer / platform designer
- Matthias Pitscher (DE) – web developer
All together in the COCO-lands:
12 contributing artists
2 contributing collectives
13 different nationalities
Participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Italy, Finland, Spain, Greece, Colombia, Germany, France, US, Hungary, Peru and Brazil.
For a project that was started in a few days in the beginning
the strict lockdown in Austria, our curator based in a closed island in the
middle of the Atlantic Ocean and all communication done online over multiple timezones.
Exhibitions/Talks
- 2021 BestOff 2020, Linz (AT)
- 2021 BestOff Talks #7, Linz (AT)
- 2021 Lacuna Festivals, Lanzarote (ES)
- 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, exhibition The Wild State (AT)
- 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, Agora Digitalis – State of Online Communities (panel discussion) (AT)
Ars Electronica – The Wild State
COCO-lands was part of the exhibition site The Wild State in the main square. The installation consists of the projected platform and the big sphere with which you can navigate on the site like using a mouse (feature image).
COCO-lands was part of the Ars Electronica 2020 – Festival for Arts, Technology and Society 9.-13.9.2020. Because of this deviant year all international participants and visitors were asked to stay at home, but the festival was very intensive even via online participation.
The installation was developed with the ÖH Production Grant 2020.
