TTF 2021 – Dusts

Dusts / о Пылях
https://dusts.space/
Alisa Verbina (RU) | Selbi Jumayeva (TM) | Dmitrii Aparin (RU)

Dirt or displaced matter? A third of the Earth's terrestrial area will be subject to drier conditions due to hotter temperatures and changing precipitation patterns. The largest areas with high dust intensities are in the Northern Hemisphere, a broad dust belt that extends from the west coast of North Africa, over the Middle East, Central and South Asia, to China. Terrestrially, dust and sandstorm-derived microbiota contain a spectacular diversity of bacteria, viruses, and fungi feeding on - and cohabiting with - each other. Industrial processes drive an increasing amount of circulating dust in the atmosphere, complicating greenhouse gas-driven anthropogenic global warming. The properties and functions of dust are entangled with human activities and effects on Earth, as co-producing and active agents of planetary ecosystems within larger interplanetary dynamics. From 2015 to 2018, Deinococcus radiodurans - a bacteria known for its extraordinary capacity to survive high levels of radiation - was exposed to extraterrestrial conditions outside of the International Space Station, and did not exhibit any lasting damage. It is inevitable that the level of microorganism transportation and delivery to extraterrestrial space will in perpetuity exceed those of intended human species. While the theory of panspermia is still debated, panspermian logic outlines how omnipresent dust is vital to planets and central to planetarity.

Credits:

The project was developed during The Terraforming 2021 at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia
https://theterraforming.strelka.com/

Project team: Alisa Verbina, Selbi Jumayeva, Dmitrii Aparin
Program Directors: Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev

Additional Credits:

Curator and writer: Selbi Jumayeva
Creative director and editor: Alisa Verbina

Sound design: Darria Driamina, Stas Khaydarov

Voice acting: Alisa Verbina

Thanks to: Nico Alexandroff, Maksat Babayev, Merve Bedir, Ryan Bishop, Vladimir Esenin, Sona Gasparyan, Alena Ivanova, Adonis Leboho, Lukas Likavcan, Aigerim Kapar, Timur Karpov, Ed Keller, Nazira Kozhanova, Metahaven, Dana Molzhigit, Robert Pietrusko, Xena Poleshuk, Dasha Silkina, Liam Young, Kamila Zakhidova

NASA visualizations credits:
Paul Newman (NASA/GSFC), Eric Sokolowsky (GST), William Putman (NASA/GSFC)
Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC), Leslie McCarthy, James Hansen Ph.D.(NASA/GSFC GISS)
Robert B Schmunk Ph.D. (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.), Reto A. Ruedy Ph.D.(SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.), Kwok-Wai Ken Lo Ph.D. (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.), Makiko Sato Ph.D.(Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research), Robert B Schmunk Ph.D. (SIGMA Space Partners, LLC.), Kel Elkins (USRA), Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC), Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA), Kate Ramsayer (Telophase), Kathryn Mersmann (USRA), Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA), Brian Monroe (USRA), Kel Elkins (USRA), Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC), Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC), Hongbin Yu (JCET UMBC), Joy Ng (USRA), Kayvon Sharghi (USRA), Ellen T. Gray (ADNET), Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA), Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC), Kel Elkins (USRA), Tianle Yuan (UMBC), Hongbin Yu (JCET UMBC), Kathryn Mersmann (USRA), Ellen T. Gray (ADNET), Lara Streiff (GSFC Interns), Laurence Schuler (ADNET), Ian Jones (ADNET), Eric Sokolowsky (GST), Leann Johnson (GST), Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, Heather Hanson (GST), Mark Malanoski (GST), ISS footage was taken by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle & R. Hurt (SSC)

Documentary Photos of Aral Sea (Uzbekistan): Timur Karpov

Sand Storm in Mangystau (Kazakhstan): instagram:qazaqstandaa_

Salton Sea footages: Vic Rincon

Tsunami in the depth of the soil: Edith Hammer, P. Micaela Mafla-Endara

The soil flight simulator for the The Living Soil Beneath Our Feet lecture: Tim Burykin

Growing of hyphae and septa formation in Alternaria sp.: Alberto Melappioni

Time lapse of some Cladosporium spores: Microworld Illustrated

Other:

Google Earth Map
ESO(spaceengine.org) L.Calçada
The Cleveland Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Nikon Small World (Dr. Wim van Egmond)
Elements envato stock footages and graphics
Blue-green Algae from Pond to Lab.
(Cyanobacteria) by Journey to the Microcosmos

Видео TTF 2021 – Dusts канала Strelka Institute/Институт Стрелка