Daria Jelonek

What if your shower could cause a rainbow, you could encounter the wonder of the Northern Lights in your fridge or observe the sunset in your artificial panorama window? 

How would you view technology if you realised everything was controlled through an augmentation of nature's wonders?
 
Technological Nature is an art research project investigating the imitation, recreation and augmentation of natural phenomena in our everyday life. Through moving image, an audiovisual immersive installation and a VR-website, this project aims to create a new mindset for the hybrid of traditional biophysical nature and the nature of technology. The project results from my experience of living with objects that artificially imitate natural light phenomenon - such as artificial sun clocks, rainbow machines and aurora machines - for a period of six months, in order to explore their nature. 
 
The project's starting point is recent research suggesting that you don’t need special machines to recreate nature, especially since our everyday objects are also able to create light phenomena when the conditions are right. The soundscape in the project derives mainly from sound recordings of the objects themselves.