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  The Wolfsonian–FIU is a museum that explores the inventive and provocative character of the modern world. Through objects and design, we reveal how the past influences the present and shapes the future.

The Breath Eaters

December 4, 2023–January 28, 2024
The Wolfsonian–FIU @ 1001 Washington Avenue

The Breath Eaters, an animated, custom software work by new media artists Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz, visualized particulate pollutants using near-real-time data to comment on the widespread impacts of human activity. Inspired by Second World War-style maps, an AI-generated globe displayed an immediate, rotational impression of air contamination around the Earth, modeling fossil fuel plant emissions, wildfire smoke, and their free movement across land and water. In a world constrained by national boundaries, the artists drew attention to pollution's transnationalism and invited the viewer to take planetary action.

Presented in connection with The Big World: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era and Bridge Deconstruction Site and in partnership with Wasserman Projects, Detroit, with the generous support of Gary L. Wasserman and Charles A. Kashner.