P@TCH
Janna Ahrndt (United States of America)
Will you truthfully track your environmental goals?
Like a Fitbit for your ethical performance, P@tch is a textile-based new media project inspired by punk and DIY culture. Each homemade P@tch uses self-reporting and environmental sensors to allow the user to track their personal and surrounding pollution.
Participants set their own DISPOSABLE month goal and build their own wearable device to track their progress in real time and used the technology to coax themselves towards a more sustainable life.
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) monitors air quality throughout Melbourne and Victoria to help people maintain health and wellbeing. Visit the EPA website to see the latest air monitoring results and learn more about air quality in Victoria.
Presented in partnership with the EPA.
Janna Ahrndt (USA) explores how deconstructing everyday technologies, or even making them for yourself can be used to question larger oppressive systems and create a space for participatory political action. Her activist and social art practice blur the lines between the materiality of craft and the digital realm of new media technologies to create socio-political interventions.