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‘The Elements’
The second decade of the 21st century finds most of us, whether scientific specialists or members of the community at large, preoccupied with the imminence of climatic and ecological catastrophe that confronts our planet. Brought about by unreflective industrialisation and a cynical attitude towards the environment, this situation faces us with the same fate that overtook the dinosaurs: species extinction. It forms an all-too-definite material counterpoint to the spectral and immaterial realities of digital media that many of us appear to inhabit today.

In the present ensemble …