A slowly melting sculpture performance, where an industrial robot carves a large ice block to a computational lens that refracts the spotlight to graphics on the wall, spelling plus two degree celsius, an ominous warning of global temperature rise. The artwork juxtaposes the high tech optimism with transient global challenges that know no bounds. The intervention only speeds up the process.
Jussi Ängeslevä exists between the fields: As an artist, a designer and a professor, with over 20 years of experience in spatial media and interactivity, his internationally recognized works span from large scale, poetic technology enabled installations over narrative media in exhibitions and showrooms to an expansive influence in critical thinking on the impact of emerging technology to society. Through tangible art and design, Jussi's creative impact makes the public think: To see the beauty, the challenges and the dangers of new technologies as they proliferate in the society.