{"id":4021,"date":"2022-03-01T06:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T06:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:07:30","slug":"we-are-ducked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/research\/we-are-ducked\/","title":{"rendered":"We are ducked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just finished making and editing <em>We Are Ducked<\/em>, new work for the the <em>Matterrealities<\/em> exhibition in <a href=\"http:\/\/csad.online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiff School of Art and Design <\/a>opens on Thursday 3rd March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><em><i>We Are Ducked<\/i><\/em> is a response to eco-anxiety, a feeling of distress caused by uncertainty about the future of the planet and its ecosystems that can cause depression and hopelessness. With its humorous appearance and tongue in cheek pun that scrolls when the viewer activates a hand dynamo, the small electronic and wood sculpture <em>We Are Ducked<\/em> celebrates the joy of making and joking in the face of environmental adversity.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3978\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-30-at-22.54.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-30-at-22.54.59.png 740w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-30-at-22.54.59-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-30-at-22.54.59-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-30-at-22.54.59-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The companion video also titled <em>We Are Ducked<\/em> is a more open-ended contemplation shot on a beach by an industrial estate in Barry Wales. The bleak landscape is a backdrop for words spoken by machines, an attempt to synthesize complex existential and ecological parameters for life in 2022 and beyond.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"We Are Ducked - Video\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/690951511?h=e2bad3e7d8&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe exhibition is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/eastn-cardiff.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EASTN-DC<\/a> European research project in digital creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Just finished making and editing We Are Ducked, new work for the the Matterrealities exhibition in Cardiff School of Art and Design opens on Thursday 3rd March. &nbsp; We Are Ducked is a response to eco-anxiety, a feeling of distress caused by uncertainty about the future of the planet and its ecosystems that can cause depression and hopelessness. With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,29,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}