Options

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MOOGZ / Mytetra

Options

Project Launch Friday 29 April, 6-10pm
(Q&A with Nuclear Warfare Expert 8pm)

Options is a project by Matthew O’Donnell, aka MOOGZ, using a telephone-number based, phone menu system.

To attend the opening event, please register via Eventbrite. Registering also ensures you will receive the phone number when the project goes live at 19:30 on 29th April.

The format entails listeners dialling a local 0207-London code number, and navigating the telephone menu system. The listener progresses through the menu system to hear 3 wishes made by experts but narrated by a child, and is then offered an option of which wish to grant. At the end of the telephone menu after listening to all the wishes, the listener is then offered the chance to record their own wishes as a voicemail.

Contributors to the project have each been given the chance to make 3 wishes to benefit the next 1,000 years of our planet. These wishes are narrated by children, representing the generations who will be most affected by our choices - and in typical phone menu system style, the listener interacts by choosing an option on their keypad.

The contributors are an eclectic group of experts ranging from local ecological artists to climate change activists working in commonwealth government through to US government intelligence officers. Each contributor offers their professional insights into a fascinating range of subjects including the dangers of artificial intelligence, food shortages, climate change law, animal conservation and nuclear war.

Messages from listeners will be collected over a two year period and will offer an evolving picture of our collective thinking about the future of our planet.

CONTRIBUTERS

Maria José Arceo was born in Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and moved to London in 1984. Maria's work has shown strong links with archaeology, oceanography, and science and most of her artworks are based on the systematic study of how human 'footprints' manifest in water. The focus of her artistic practice began in 1991 with an exploration of salt as the footprint left by evaporating water. Her investigation soon focused on one of the most alarming examples of desertification processes caused by human miss-manipulation of natural water ecosystems.
www.mariaarceo.com

Emma Elliott is a British artist whose central concerns are the incongruous and hypocritical aspects of humanity and our connections with history and animality. Working primarily across sculpture and painting, she explores the relationships between the refined and the primitive, the physical and the spiritual. She examines the human condition from up close and afar, honing in on minute anatomical and psychological details and broadly surveying the influences of our collective past on present behaviour, often in the same piece. 
www.emmaelliott.com

Liz Elton begins with landscape and still-life painting in order to explore the potential of waste and the recycling of matter. Her works embrace their own ephemerality whilst addressing environmental issues such as the connection between soil health and food waste and shifts in ecological thinking. Much of her work is made on compostable cornstarch (the material used for food waste recycling bags) and coloured with vegetable dyes from kitchen waste intercepted on its way to compost.
www.lizelton.com

John Fogle has 20 years of experience in U.S. Air Force Intelligence, with a background in Department of Defense-level cyberspace policy, U.S. Air Force Space Command acquisitions of space and cyber platforms, and inter-Departmental/inter-Agency crisis response planning for U.S. Northern Command. John holds degrees in Political Science from the University of Kentucky and Strategic Intelligence Studies from the American Military University. 
www.cser.ac.uk

Clare Saxon Ghauri is a digital editor and climate action campaigner who is devoted to protecting our living planet. Through roles at climate non-profits and organisations, Clare’s writing and social media has reached an impactful and political global audience. She has both collaborated with and informed agents of change at every level including the United Nations, global business leaders and governments from around the world. Outside work she volunteers for climate causes like Parents For Future as well as local groups driving renewable energy and community food growing, such as Incredible Edible.
www.womeninforeignpolicy.org