SEANA LEAH

THE SKY IS FALLING - HOW WE CODE

The sky above our heads place us within the embrace of nature’s space and tethers everyone in their environment without necessarily localizing the place. Utilizing the narrative of “the sky is falling” I bring the immediacy of nature’s threat to the audience, using digital photography to take images of sky and intervene with a human and technical hand to subvert the nature depicted in the image. I used databending, changing the image’s code with text editing, to insert quotations from scientists, psychologists, and articles about climate change into the image, creating man-made coded artifacts and glitches. By coding I could disrupt images without immediately seeing alterations, much like how our actions can create imperceptible changes in the environment. In some images I imposed parts of the coded text with the hidden, yet explicit, placing of those quotes. I further distorted the images through Photoshop, inserting more human interference and alterations.