Time segments of more-than-human agents

MICROSCOPIC SCALE - MICROBIOMES AND THEIR ROLE IN THE PERMAFROST FOOD WEB darkness, seasonal thaw, heat, abrupt thaw, rocks fall, organic matter decomposes, microbes, methane, exit above ground and into the atmosphere

130 years - Bacteria division happens after aprox. 12 hours

LANDSCAPE SCALE_segment 1 start?, heat, a series of changes in the landscape - the more random ones at first and the more specific - crater, collapse, thermokarst, flooding

actual eruption - 5 hours | pressure build up - 2-3 years

LANDSCAPE SCALE_segment 2 permafrost and infrastructure collapse, thermokarst activity, flooding

Rather than taking a position that attempts a complete (and completely utopian) abandonment of anthropomorphic thinking, we need to adopt more encompassing and critical forms of thinking beyond the human. In doing so, I consider so called contact zones - spaces where “cultures (and species) meet, clash and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power”. In the digital, these contact zones can be exaggerated to reveal often unexpected relations between agents across species, scales and timeframes.

TRANSNATIONAL/INDUSTRIAL gas drilling and transnational pipelines

2008-2038 (data) lifetime of gas well

DOMESTIC reindeer cross the pipelines (merging of scales) - they don’t migrate anymore

1 year / yearly migration

Time stamps of the five time segments in the game:. Durations and speeds of each scene inspired from current scientific estimations. From top to bottom: Permafrost thaw and microbial degradation, Near permafrost thaw induced ground destabilization due to thermokarst activity, Gas -blowout crater, Gasfield lifetime, Reindeer yearly migration cycle