In her Master's thesis, Lena Renz is investigating new methods for the digital capture and visualisation of our cultural and natural environment.
Cultural heritage defines our social identity. In the face of global crises, the fragility of nature is demanding a digital conservation and reconstruction through technologies such as 3D-scanning. The master’s thesis on “Anthropocenic Relics” takes a provocative look at the traditional preservation of cultural heritage. It questions the selective presentation in museums and cultural institutions and explores new forms of memory through subjective, decentralized experiences.
The resulting multimedia installation shows the many layers of an organic specimen: The Orchid. Manipulated 3D-Scans of the flower reveal new perspectives: On its multiple meanings, its needs and its symbiosis with other organisms. Who knows what the wasp tastes and hears while it collects its pollen? The five 3D-printed artifacts create space for individual interpretations and renegotiate our cultural value attribution. Projections of fluid textures on the plain surfaces expose the interconnectedness and hybridity of the Anthropocene: In-between states of organic and artificial, process and result, evidence and imagination.
