Design
Art That 'Infests' Natural Spaces With Invasive, Man-Made Species
A Prague-based artist composes sculpture that examines how urban technology spreads like its own life form.
Groups of satellite dishes and security cameras have invaded parts of Europe, clustering like seagulls around beach rocks and growing like barnacles on the sides of buildings.
These aren’t installations by any government, but rather works by Prague-based artist Jakub Geltner—part of a series called “Nest.” Geltner started the project in 2011, using strategic groupings of man-made technology to explore how humans and their machines have “infested” all kinds of spaces.