On the College of Massachusetts Amherst, the Digital Life initiative endeavours to create high-quality 3D digital fashions of dwelling organisms – particularly these getting ready to extinction. This contemporary Noah’s Ark is simply one of many methods humanity is digitising a world in ecological peril. However what does this impulse, mixed with the rise of ‘simulation concept’, say about us? Is the concept that we will digitally protect and simulate biology, or that we exist already in a computer-simulated actuality, merely a solution to consolation ourselves as we drive our world additional towards ecological collapse? In a collage pulled collectively from the world of digitisation, the experimental quick Our Ark ponders whether or not these notions of parallel simulated worlds are a way of providing ourselves ‘solace within the face of paralysis’.
