UNSEEN 1.0 video documentation
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UNSEEN 1.0 (2018)
University of California, Davis Jiayi Young in collaboration with CNI Undergraduate Fellow, Maria Wong; Message Campaign by Kaela Han “UNSEEN” is a temporary public artwork created to help visualize the amount of CO2 produced by human activity. Ten of these 12-foot inflatable cubes represent one cubic ton of CO2. Forty-seven of these represent the amount of CO2 produced by an average car in a year. There are two goals for this artwork. One is to visualize a large volume with a minimum amount of material. The second is to engage the UC Davis campus community about the importance of the carbon neutrality concept. Sponsored by the UC Davis Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI), this artwork is conceived and produced by Jiayi Young Studio in conjunction with CNI undergraduate fellow Maria Wong and Design undergraduate Kaela Han. Acknowledgement: Project sponsored by the UC Davis Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI), UC Davis |
UNSEEN 2.0 (2019)
Broad Arts center, University of California, Los Angeles
This project was invited by Victoria Vesna and Linda Weintraub, author of her book WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art, to exhibit as a part of a workshop series during the "Understanding ARTS based RESEARCH Symposium + Exhibition" at UCLA on April 5, 2019. In her book, Weintraub invites her audience to consider the remarkable capacity of the human organism to discern, interpret, and apply evidence of the material and energetic environment. For the workshop, UNSEEN was reimagined to dialogue with chapter 3 of what Weintraub refers to as "utility of people," where through an attempt to build a cube inflated by the human lungs in order to visualize the volume of one metric ton of CO2, UNSEEN 2.0 invites the participants to reconsider human agency in the context of our complex relationship with environment.
Broad Arts center, University of California, Los Angeles
This project was invited by Victoria Vesna and Linda Weintraub, author of her book WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art, to exhibit as a part of a workshop series during the "Understanding ARTS based RESEARCH Symposium + Exhibition" at UCLA on April 5, 2019. In her book, Weintraub invites her audience to consider the remarkable capacity of the human organism to discern, interpret, and apply evidence of the material and energetic environment. For the workshop, UNSEEN was reimagined to dialogue with chapter 3 of what Weintraub refers to as "utility of people," where through an attempt to build a cube inflated by the human lungs in order to visualize the volume of one metric ton of CO2, UNSEEN 2.0 invites the participants to reconsider human agency in the context of our complex relationship with environment.
UNSEEN 2.0 installation setup
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Blowing the inflatable tubes
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