2020/21 Wintersemester 03 Natalia_Evelyn_BENCICOVA container Diploma Natália Evelyn Bencicova Diplomstudium "Sensus Communis uses virtual environment, sound, touch, and smell to create embodiment inside of the thematic narrative Anti-Atlantis. If Atlantis is a story of an ancient culture destroyed by nature, then Anti-Atlantis represents its opposite – present or future landscape destroyed by human culture of excess. The organic form represents the vision of utopian paradise as we remember it – even though this memory might exist only as a constructed fantasy. The scene reveals the effect of ""progress""; appropriation of nature as resources for industrial production with alarming pollution levels. Anthropocene leads to paradise lost, a catastrophe scenario that, if we ignore warning signs, gradually consumes everything. Anti-Atlantis calls for moment of awakening. In time travel between past and future, it brings attention to our present behaviour, its consequences, and impulse for change. " winter term 2020/21 Gabriele Rothemann Sensus Communis - Anti-Atlantis https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:40881