Silicon Forest: The Understories of Data and Forests (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781915609984)

Vendor: Futurefarmers
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Format: Paperback
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Silicon Forest: The Understories of Data and Forests

$33.95

Silicon Forest: The Understories of Data and Forests

$33.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

Silicon Forest: The Understories of Trees and Data is a transdisciplinary gathering conceptualized by the artist collective Futurefarmers that examines the reciprocity between ecology, technological futures, and consumption. Emerging from a year-long research process traversing rivers and forests, laboratories, field sites, workshops, and the campus's abandoned energy tunnels, Silicon Forest imagines the complex interconnections between the ecological, industrial, and technological histories of Oregon State University and the surrounding Willamette Valley, envisioning a future that addresses the impending energy crisis brought on by the exponential growth of data-mining technologies.

The resulting book expands this research both in content and in form, documenting Futurefarmers' first solo exhibition in the Pacific Northwest at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Futurefarmers' stylistic approach to the book challenges readers to reconsider language, printmaking, and the evolution of visual communication. The artists employ a typographic method they call "deforestation," in which all of the "o"s are removed from the text and reappear as a cloud of letterforms on the cover. The resulting image invites readers to approach their journey through the book as if wandering through a forest that has been logged--or a landfill.

This visual gesture both challenges and animates the critical reflections found in essays by media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers.

Contributors
Amal Alpha, Eric C. Beard, Kai Castle, Meng-Ping Chang, Li-Jing Cheng, Albert Colman, Maude David, Thomas H. DeLuca, Arthur Derksen, Sean Dockray, Anna Friz, FutureFarmers, Andreas Guerrero, Erin Jimerson, Lambda, Ashley Stull Meyers, Michael Paul Nelson, Nichole Nomura, Oksana Ostroverkhova, OOOOO.BE, James Parker, Yasi Perera, Megan Prelinger, Adam Quinn, Jenna Azuraya Rain, Seri Robinson, Joel Stern, David Stimpson, Marloes de Valk, Les Walton, Luhui Whitebear.

Copublished by the Patricia Valian Reser Center for Creative Arts (PRAx), Oregon State University

Author: Futurefarmers
ISBN-10: 1915609984
ISBN-13: 9781915609984
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2026
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Futurefarmers
By Futurefarmers
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Futurefarmers is an international working group of artists, architects, computer programmers, farmers, writers, and anthropologists who form collaborative constellations based on the context in which they work. They have exhibited at the Taipei Biennale (2018); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Walker Art Center (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Biennial 2000).

Elizabeth Thomas produces research-based and site-responsive artworks across a range of media. She has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 2010. As Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, she curated A Variation on the Powers of Ten and co-edited the companion publication. She teaches at California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute, and writes for a range of publications.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards.

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