September 15, 2018
Musket Transport, 556 Southdown Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea.
Economies of Scale
Julian Oliver
September 15, 2018
Musket Transport, 556 Southdown Rd., Mississauga
Events are FREE and open to the public. All are welcome.
Starting at the shipping container housing the live video feed and data visualization of HARVEST’s mining rig, Julian Oliver, facilitated by Musket Transport, will lead the group through the shipping yard to the adjacent field where the rig is located. At the foot of the 2kW wind turbines, Oliver will discuss how he directs the turbines’ clean power into mining cryptocurrency to support climate change research and awareness. Acting as a fully functional prototype beyond a media-art context, Oliver envisages hundreds of such HARVEST nodes could be deployed in the windiest parts of the world, together generating large sums of supplementary funding for climate-change NGOs in a time where climate science itself is under siege from the fossil-fuelled interests of governments and corporations. Oliver will address how the financials generated by HARVEST introduce the prospect of economies of scale and reveal the volatility of markets.
Presented as part of The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea a site-specific exhibition, public program series, and publication platform designed to expand perspectives on climate change through artistic practices, cultural inquiry, and political mobilization.
Julian Oliver is a New Zealander, critical engineer and artist based in Berlin. His work has been presented at many museums, galleries, international electronic-art events and conferences, including the Tate Modern, Transmediale, the Chaos Computer Congress, Ars Electronica, FILE, and the Japan Media Arts Festival. Oliver has received several awards, including the distinguished Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011 for the project Newstweek (with Daniil Vasiliev). He is the co-author of the Critical Engineering Manifesto and co-founder of Crypto Party in Berlin. He is also the co-founder of BLACKLIST, a screening and panel series focused on the primary existential threats of our time. He is an advocate of Free and Open Source Software and actively supports and contributes to initiatives that reinforce rights of privacy and anonymity in technologically-mediated domains.
The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea is presented by the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto Mississauga in partnership with the City of Mississauga.
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded in part through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
