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All the world's polygons

Thursday, August 21, 2025
11:15 am_12:00 pm

Monument-National

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85$

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Artist, writer, and educator Alice Bucknell will present All The World’s Polygons, a game engine lecture-performance exploring ecological simulation in gaming and how predictive technologies can both imagine and constrain future possibilities.

What does the weather report in Grand Theft Auto VI have to do with proposals to modify the Earth's climate by artificially blocking out the sun? Both make use of digital earth twins: life-size, simulated doubles of the planet that track real-time climate data and simulate possible ecological futures. Told in three parts—one that stretches from the soft sway of simulated oceanic currents to the flattening hypervision of geospatial data cast at the scale of a whole planet—scales dilate, virtual trash piles are close-read, and the blind spots of predictive modeling are exposed. All the world’s polygons examines the darker side of perfect simulation while opening up the affective capacities of the game engine as an animate ecosystem, one that’s capable of generating new ways of being in the world.

Please note: this activity will be in English, with live transcription available.