A web-based immersive virtual reality (VR) project that invites the user to explore the sedimented landscapes of logistics traversing urban centers of consumption and their related distributive networks of warehousing, transportation, dataveillance, waste and wilderness management.
The project brings media technologies to the forefront of anthropological research, immersing audiences in guided, first-hand encounters with the infrastructures of supply-chain capitalism — its impacts on ecology, labor, and social well-being. These are dimensions of logistics otherwise hidden from consumer experience in our contemporary on-demand economy.
Drawing from multimodal fieldwork on logistical flows between urban consumer centers and their exurban transport and warehousing corridors, this project explores how contemporary e-commerce driven models of algorithmic management laminate on to prior landscapes of settler-colonial and military-industrial modes of distribution.
