NVDA [THE POST-WORK OF CLIMATE ACTIVISM]
NVDA [The Post-Work of Climate Activism] is a multi-channel video installation work-in-progress.
NVDA is an ongoing design research project exploring the intersection of Non-Violent Direct Action as an activist strategy in response to the threat of climate collapse, increased police powers and new laws to prevent climate activism, and the looming applications of machine learning technologies in urban space.
In April 2023, the UK government introduced an ammendment to the Public Order Act, to broadened the legal definition of ‘serious disruption’, giving the police almost unlimited powers to shut down any protest that causes a ‘more than minor disturbance’. This change is known as Section 12.
NVDA is an ongoing design research project exploring the intersection of Non-Violent Direct Action as an activist strategy in response to the threat of climate collapse, increased police powers and new laws to prevent climate activism, and the looming applications of machine learning technologies in urban space.
In April 2023, the UK government introduced an ammendment to the Public Order Act, to broadened the legal definition of ‘serious disruption’, giving the police almost unlimited powers to shut down any protest that causes a ‘more than minor disturbance’. This change is known as Section 12.
This project explores an ethnographic approach to document the work of Just Stop Oil, a prominent climate activist group in the UK that demands the end of new oil and gas licenses, juxtaposed with the decline of civil liberties associated with Section 12, and tactics for their potential circumvention.
The NVDA project utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the ontologies of policing practices, and as a counter-algorithmic proposition, develops a counter-ontology, emerging from the ethnographic tactics of Just Stop Oil.
The NVDA project utilizes machine learning techniques to examine the ontologies of policing practices, and as a counter-algorithmic proposition, develops a counter-ontology, emerging from the ethnographic tactics of Just Stop Oil.
