Extraction:

Large-scale appropriation; removal; retrieval; separation; acquisition; transformation of resources that markedly changes the nature of an ecosystem.

TRISTAN DUKE: TRANSITIONAL LENSES

Patrick J. Reed
Issue: 60ScneSS292n

Artist Tristan Duke photographs the Placerita Oil Field and the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area using lenses made from frozen drinking water. Fulcrum Arts’ Curator, Patrick J. Reed, goes along for the ride.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • Perception
  • System Failure
  • Visualization
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The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg XXL

The tide line is a soft transition. Where capital meets the sea, it creates brittle structures, likely to shatter. The ocean’s edges may not be as fluid as they seem.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
Multicolor singular disk with a cube pattern on it. Out of focus ocean and horizon background.

The Erosion of Silicon Beach

Nina Sarnelle
Issue: 933c4igqn5gg

discomforting circularity turns in my stomach, thinking about Santa Monica’s full-circle from place of work to ‘workplace.’

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Growth
  • Invisibility
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
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Three Diffractions of LA

Suzanne Kite
Issue: 8ec0S21qS01i

I talk to my cousin Corey Stover on the phone and he teaches me hokšíkilowaŋpi (to sing a lullaby); we are both cruelly out of tune. He is in Oglala Nation, I am in LA, and we perform our distance. He sings to me and I to him, a short melody. I watch LAPD helicopters out the window of 242 East Avenue 41 and compose a short drone.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
  • System Failure
  • Visualization
Close up of white mineral rock.

Anthropogenic Mineral Collection

Colleen Hargaden
Issue: q8S55gnn8981

In the fall of 2020, I began gathering samples for what I’ve termed an Anthropogenic Mineral Collection. These carbon-based minerals consist of human-mediated byproducts of geological intervention from the Industrial Revolution to the present. The majority of those in my collection are caused by industrial mining of valuable conductors, and have not been recorded elsewhere as natural occurrences.

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Land and Sea
  • Networks
  • The Body
  • Visualization
A close- up of a graphically rendered teeth protruding a bronze mouth.

Spoils of a Lost Referent

Felipe Meres
Issue: 7e23c6 eSn84

Despite the conclusion, the museum continues to exhibit the sculpture, claiming that it has acquired a modern cultural identity that transcends “issues of origin and genuineness” and stands as an “icon of the ever-changing perceptions and connoisseurship in the field of pre-Columbian studies.”

  • Digging
  • Extraction
  • Fictions
  • Generation
  • Invisibility
AI-generated textile, cotton, training: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite images, 2020

ABOVE BELOW

Sarah Rosalena Balbuena-Brady
Issue: 086n7n94i4 n

Colonialism is rooted in the planetary imagination which fails to account for histories of structural racism based on geologic relations and the violent dispossession of indigenous lands. This resulted in legacies of destructive cartography and mapping now used in machine vision in space.

  • Cosmology
  • Extraction
  • Generation
  • Land and Sea
  • System Failure
  • The Body
  • Visualization