Archipelago / Archipelago Archive
In Archipelago and Archipelago Archive, Nicolás Rupcich explores how we use digital tools to capture, view, and even distort nature.
During a trip to Svalbard in the Arctic Circle, he filmed the melting glacier landscape using a drone. These recordings are mixed with graphic layers made through photogrammetry—a technique that builds 3D models using photographs. The result is a digital copy of nature. In his installations, Rupcich overlaps these images, speeds them up, and lets them overflow—until the system seems overwhelmed by too much data. In Archipelago Archive, he presents the entire mass of raw video footage across twenty screens at once. His work asks how we turn the world into an object—into data and visuals—and what that does to how we experience nature. Rupcich shows how our drive to understand nature through technology can also lead to overload—of both machines and the Earth.
