EcoArtTech
(Leila Nadir and Cary Adams Peppermint)
Based in Rochester, NY, Leila Nadir and Cary Adams
Peppermint have been working together for over two
decades as multi-species kin-makers, creative-critical
researchers, undisciplined storytellers, and eccentric
educators. Their mediums are poetic visibility, feeling-
perception, and the simple acts of everyday life.
The artists work across disturbed ecological zones
to explore the chances for restorative gestures and
collaborative repair amidst disaster and ruins.
Microbial Selfies are digital images created with custom
electronics and software that allow microbes to take
their own "selfies" and add image manipulation effects
based on the shifting pH levels, oxygen, and color
values of the fermentation process. Microbial Selfies is
part of EcoArtTech's new series of social sculptures,
titled EdibleEcologies, that work collaboratively with
local communities (human, bacterial, and ecological) to
resuscitate historic food practices and facilitate recovery
from a cultural memory disorder that they call "industrial
amnesia."
