Interview: The Artists Behind DRIFT Discuss the Unparalleled Potential of Technology in Cultivating Connections with Nature
“Fragile Future.” All photographs © DRIFT, shared with permission
Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, the pair behind the Amsterdam-based studio DRIFT, have spent the previous couple of many years exploring the intersection of know-how and nature, an expertise they recount in a brand new interview supported by Colossal Members. Their broad, immersive physique of labor harnesses the ability of robotics, manufactured mechanisms, and even algorithms to visualise a few of the most gorgeous and charming organic phenomena and ecological cycles.
We imagine that we dwell in a time the place know-how and nature are not opposites however are codependent entities. For DRIFT, inspiration and pure phenomena all the time stand on the epicenter of our works—know-how is merely the means to convey our visions to life—whereas the web permits us to share our visions with as many individuals as doable.
On this dialog, Colossal managing editor Grace Ebert speaks with the pair in regards to the origins of their collaboration-driven studio, how recognizing and internalizing patterns may also help us realign with the world round us, and why nature and the inevitability of change is the one assure.
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