The Carbon Farm is a data-based internet art project that uses a browser-based medium to develop a miniature responsive environment. This browser-based experiment is questioning the enforced consumptive behavior of today’s technology. Such behavior escalates the daily rates of the commodification of carbon dioxide and consequently degrades the global ecosystem.

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The project visualizes the effect of the daily commodification of carbon dioxide in five countries (Germany, Egypt, China, Japan, and the USA). The selected countries present differentiation in regional, environmental, and cultural conditions. However, the project emphasizes that the daily commodification of carbon dioxide refers to the global collective consumptive culture, regardless of the diversity in the regions, environments, cultures, or even religions.

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In this context, the project encourages participants and actors to consider the impact of their daily consumption of carbon dioxide and its derivatives on the balance of the global ecosystem. It digitally simulates the effects of carbon dioxide on the designed miniature environment. Thus, participants can compare the environmental conditions before and after a set of real-time databases of carbon dioxide emissions that affect the designed digital environment.

 

The project reveals the extent to which such practices introduce the environmental role of digital art, as well as how they enable laypeople to interpret hard-to-read data regarding global warming threats.