As we send out our postcard data art and discuss our upcoming social media art residency call, I reflect on what environmental truth is after attending an online event by the Steps Centre.

a post card kaleidoscope

In my understanding and opinion, Bram Büscher, author of The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism talked about the fact that social media is beyond truth and therefore environmentalists’ messages when posing to the platforms are lost in the noise of truth and non-truth.

So, if this is the case, what is the answer? Bram suggested going beyond individual facts that can be easily brushed off in this post-truth world and going directly for speaking truth. I must reflect on this a little longer…