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December 2017. The Garage<\/a> contemporary arts centre invited me to wrek Russian e-waste with local participants and build some post-apocalypse trees as part of their 8th Art Experiment<\/a> season. This year the theme was Laboratories of Earthly Survival<\/strong>. Curator Snejana Kratseva says:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Each winter, Garage transforms its galleries into a<\/span>n experimental laboratory for art. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in hands-on experiences with artists, as well as innovative creative collaborations between peers. Art Experiment is the flagship initiative of Garage Education and Public Programs and attracts students, parents, local residents, and Moscow visitors. <\/span><\/p>\n This year will be the eigh<\/span>th annual interactive initiative,<\/span> <\/span>focusing on s<\/span>cience art and survival ethics. It will consist of\u00a0<\/span>hands-on experiments in \u201chacking\u201d life sciences and equipping participants with skills in agricultural, biological, genetic as well as robo engineering, preparing kids and adults for an imaginary future after the world ended,\u00a0<\/span>cultivating a future generation of home-grown brand of \u201cgarage scientists\u201d who will be able to not only to generate new inventions with low-fi materials but do so evaluating one’s ethical values with every new discovery.”<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I knew there was little hope to get some exotic soviet era e-waste, and I was right. We got lots of Hewlett-Packard PCs, a crate of early 2000s Panasonic cameras and various other familiar consumer electronics items.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nietSovietWaste.jpg\")
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