“The Virtual Harvester Project” by van der Schijff
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- Art / Design
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- The Virtual Harvester Project
Session/Category Title: Bending: Corn, Face, and Gender for Social Provocation
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Abstract:
The Virtual Harvester Project is an effort to address the need For global commitment and action to fight one of human society’s most basic problems: food insecurity. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) created the Poverty Clock to illustrate how quickly poverty grows. Each successive digit on the clock indicates another person living on less than $1.00 (U.S.) per day. Synchronized to the Poverty Clock’s ticking, one new plant sprouts on the virtual corn field; yielding approximately 47 plants each minute.
