Forest Filled with Pines and Electronics

Troika’s paintings titled Forest filled with Pines and Electronics present an alternative dramatization of adaptation to the screen, questioning whether the forest itself can undergo such a process. 

It reconstructs images of forest fires using only the sixteen shades of red, green and blue that form the basis of RAW digital images. Recognizing the increase in wildfire risk caused by climate change, and issues such as illegal logging, environmental monitoring systems have been put in place in many locations around the world. In the Internet of Trees, networked digital video cameras are attached directly to trees in order to detect early warnings of fire, at the same time rendering the cameras themselves vulnerable to flame. 

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