The term electricity originates from the Greek word elektron, meaning amber. This historical association established amber not solely as a decorative resin, but as the foundational material for the human observation of energetic capture and electrical phenomena.
Investigate amber for a precise formulation of the term “infossil”: a description of active memory (immortal/forever) rather than describing a residue which serves as passive memory.
Infossil: the material sediment and compressed time of the digital-nuclear-age. Unlike a biological fossil, which passively records the past, the infossil is active. It encodes entropic debt and structural half-lives (the universal clock) (e.g., Plutonium-239, Caesium-137) into radioactive strata, programming the future on timescales that outlast the civilization that generated them.
Create something around the concept of the “infossil sky”, the horizon of the atomsphere. I can imagine an installation contrasting the infossil with the fossil as a sculpture built from coal and slightly radioactive materials.
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https://1001suns.com/trinity-twins
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Baltic sea
https://1001suns.com/atomsphere
https://particles.de/atomsphere.org/radiation.html?ll=34.5970,-63.9844&z=1
