Los Angeles Hermetica: Aire Limpio
Exhibited in the Cosmogram Exhibition and curated by David Salomon
Reconceived as a hollow earth diagram, this section shows Los Angeles as a bubble of ecology, among others. The city - from Downtown to Venice - lives in polluted air and water separated from a larger planet.
Given this closed world, an infrastructural network that cleans / dissipates / and filters this system is introduced. Called Los Angeles Hermetica: Aire Limpio, new technologies of bioremediating organisms as well as mechanisms work to offset and sustain life in this city. Downtown has smog-eating or photocatalytic towers, the defunct river is host to new ecologies, cloudseeding microparticles bring rain, and the coast is lined with protozoa, rotifers, and algae stations that cleans the water.
Team: Nicholas Houser