Breath of Fire — About Amauta and David art videos, volcanos, virtual environments, and urban extractivism

To gain an understanding of a volcano, we must change scales, either by going up or down temporally and spatially. Volcanic rocks contain traces of long-term geological processes, slow metabolisms of living matter, and fast-growing and decaying vegetation. Volcanic rocks bring together the fast and slow, the big and small, in a surprisingly complex microcosm that defies a simple conception of what is alive or what constitutes a material object. The volcano edifice is constructed over time by the accumulation of rocks, ash, and solidified lava. Monogenetic volcanoes, such as Xitle, which have erupted only once since their formation, are sometimes mistaken for medium or even small mountains.
Amauta García and David Camargo work with already available tools and bend media to reach different scales of observation of natural phenomena and their reflection on human means of (…)