Interactive Installation
Traces
D.A. Restrepo-Quevedo & Jorge Bandera
The deforestation that the planet is currently experiencing, and Colombia in particular, shows truly worrying figures for the reality of the planet, and of course, for our quality of life on it. According to the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies, IDEAM (2017), we have lost more than 170,000 hectares of trees in the country's natural forest territories. This work aims to build a reflection, pedagogy and interaction on the human effect in natural environments, for which we build an immersive interface that puts in crisis the presence of individuals in space, who when entering the forest produce TRACES of modification, transformation or Damage to the natural environment. The development is carried out together with two joint processes mediated by video and audio, as well as the sensitive experience of space through corporeal exploration generated by the movement of the body and its relationship with space, which is enhanced with perceptual physical effects. . such as artificial smoke or wind. The spaces can be commuted by regions of the country where, through evidence, it can be identified how the human footprint has increased the environmental crisis, reflected in birds or in water quality.
