Environmental data and attention regimes in the ecological crisis. Hermeneutic, ethical and aesthetic issues
Pierre-Antoine Chardel
Date: 2020
Published in: Les cahiers du numérique 16/2-4, pp. 117-135
The main objective of this article is to show that in confronting the major challenges of the environmental crisis, the role of artistic practices is, in many ways, decisive. It is through some of them that it becomes possible to create new perceptive fields as well as singular collective dynamics. Collected data combined with immersive aesthetic experiences can become the source of a more significant knowledge of natural environments, thus contributing to create the conditions for a greater sensibility to ecological problems. In order to enable dynamics of common commitment, it even seems crucial that certain scientific data be better known by individuals, both to support public actions and to produce sustainable behavioural changes on a collective scale.