Introduction
The series renders 196 nations and regions as gasoline films on an ocean. Per-capita petroleum consumption informs thickness and colour; capital-city time zones drive day and night. Credits include Werner Poetzelberger and programmer Helmut Bressler.
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A generative landscape driven by consumption data
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Work and historical context
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A generative landscape driven by consumption data
The series renders 196 nations and regions as gasoline films on an ocean. Per-capita petroleum consumption informs thickness and colour; capital-city time zones drive day and night. Credits include Werner Poetzelberger and programmer Helmut Bressler.
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Viewing the work and its documentation
Read Petro National through the relationship between national outlines and the visual treatment of oil. Retaining production and programming credits alongside the artist also makes the work’s collaborative conditions visible.
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Art-historical significance and comparison
Editorial interpretation: Generation includes political choices about data and borders. Recording collaborators also prevents a complex real-time system from becoming a misleading single-author technical story.
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Generation includes political choices about data and borders. Recording collaborators also prevents a complex real-time system from becoming a misleading single-author technical story.
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