AnthropoPangaea
2021, 3D animation, Variable
AnthropoPangaea is an interactive map by Shezad Dawood that brings audiences of all ages closer to some of the planet's strangest inhabitants. Curated and commissioned by UP Projects for This Is Public Space and produced by UBIK Productions, AnthropoPangaea animates accelerated geological change and presents a version of the earth that refuses a fixed colonial logic. Through exploring the map audiences can learn more about some of our lesser known marine species and begin to imagine possible futures.
The title of the work synthesises the term 'Anthropophagia' meaning to cannibalise with 'Pangaea' the supercontinent that existed approximately 335,000,000 years ago. In merging these terms this work challenges viewers to think differently about our relationship to the planet, learning more about species that have been around for millennia, those we humans have only just discovered and those that have come back from the dead.
Conceived by
Shezad Dawood
Produced by
Inês Geraldes Cardoso
Commissioned by
UP Projects for This Is Public Space
Visual interpretations and code
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