Jason Livingston

An ironic play on the classic coding exercise, “hello, world!,” Jason Livingston and Jason E. Geistweidt use electronic circuitry with real-time data to show the difference between the current temperature and the 30-year average in the four cities the polar bears represent, each one a player in global debates on climate change. With eyes that glow redder with the rise in global temperatures, the installation turns what is often made invisible--the infrastructure behind our ever-increasing data consumption--into a visual signifier of the impact of this data use on our climate. Goodbye, World! reminds us of our collective impact on the ecosystem, and that even our well-meaning attempts at connection can end up being yet another method of extraction without regeneration.

-Zainab Saleh, Making Strange Co-Curator