Gina Haraszti

My new project has just finished. I worked with Györgyi Galik, Marton Juhasz and John Nussey on an artificial ecosystem, which aims to recreate the conditions found in nature in a controlled environment that is independent from its surroundings. The installation is sphere which is a scale model of a much larger environment that is intended to function as a balanced ecosystem of plants and animals, with an adjustable climate. By adjusting the temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, pressure or other climate factors it is possible to create an environment that, in our case, represents the two disappearing seasons, spring or autumn.

Reservoir of Seasons from Gina Haraszti on Vimeo.

Some people believe that global warming is just a fiction, but we know it is happening, because we feel it and we see it every day. Reservoir of Seasons is not about presenting phenomena which many people will never experience, like dying polar bears, melting icebergs or the cooling of the Gulf Stream, but about the subtle changes we experience every day.

Find out more here:
http://ginaharaszti.com/projects