Digioxide

Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: (b.1986) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He focuses on contemporary media arts including sound, robotics and installation, placing special emphasis on the link between emergent systems and new kinds of technological synthesis.

Digioxide is a portable wireless device equipped with sensors of air pollution and dust particles. It is connected to a computer via bluetooth. This allows users of digioxide to roam around the city, seek out ecologically problematic places and turn their readings into digital artworks.

The information about the concentration of dust and harmful gases, such as CO, CO2, HCHO, CH4 and C3H8 and spme others is algorithmically transformed into generative graphics, forming an abstract image. The device's mobile printer allows instant printing of this air "snapshot" that can be left as an evidence on the place, or given as a present to a passerby.

Morosov offers new opportunities for the creation of art as a direct (yet abstracted) translation of our changing environment. The addition of the playful (yet ultimately arbitrary) addition of the nose on the device lends an anthropomorphic, comedic quality to the otherworldly readings taken by this unique contraption.