ISAO HASHIMOTO

An interesting video of the 2053 nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe. Quite similar to the video of the number of earthquakes in Japan each year, Hashimoto intended to evoke "the fear and the folly of nuclear weapons."

"This piece of work is a bird's eye view of the history by scaling down a month length of time into one second. No letter is used for equal messaging to all viewers without language barrier. The blinking light, sound and the numbers on the world map show when, where and how many experiments each country have conducted. I created this work for the means of an interface to the people who are yet to know of the extremely grave, but present problem of the world."

Overkillded by Isao puts the number of explosions into a creepy time lapse perspective

I think it's interesting how Isao expresses explosions in different forms in his work. The elegance and simplicity of this video reminds me of the pedestal that we put these tests on. 

-Kristi