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Daniel Fetzner

• Jardin Glocal is the third part of our artistic research De\Globalize about exploring a new mindset towards our planet earth. After experimental test drillings in India, Egypt, and the Congo, the journey brings us back to the Upper Rhine Valley. Ecology sheds doubt on the exclusivity of human agency. Rather, it reflects from the outset the position of the observer. Our media ecological approachJardin Glocal is the third part of our artistic research De\Globalize about exploring a new mindset towards our planet earth. After experimental test drillings in India, Egypt, and the Congo, the journey brings us back to the Upper Rhine Valley. Ecology sheds doubt on the exclusivity of human agency. Rather, it reflects from the outset the position of the observer. Our media ecological approach goes a step further, integrating radical entanglements of implemented technical artefacts with their inherent life. The lens of media ecology transforms media as tools, instruments and devices into formed material. Media are decomposed, reconstructed entities that have long since penetrated our senses and thoughts. The search movement Jardin Glocal poses the question of what it means to live in a network of visible and invisible functions, as Max Bense already stated in 1951.…