Yasaman Sheri
Contemporary Minerals
Contemporary Minerals is a research project by Yasaman Sheri that investigates the quiet formation of new materials—elemental traces, synthetic sediments that accumulate and harden into novel fossils. The molecular scale of micro-plastics, synthetic chemicals, and industrial debris is unfolding within a time of climate disasters, reflecting deep infrastructural and cultural shifts in our relationship to nature. With case studies as wildfires, ocean health and female reproduction disruptors, we see a rise in invisible particles that infiltrate our air, water, soil and flesh often in ways that escape direct human perception- tiny matter that flow within every living cell, humans, plants, animals, and surface, every interaction becomes a molecular affliction. Like fossils, debris impresses in our skin, hair, and bodies. In this contemporary lecture series Sheri brings her wealth of knowledge in machine sensing and intelligence and explores the entangled relationships of such technologies to ecology, environmental matter and toxicity.
