Wilderness Trouble V1.0

“Wilderness Trouble” is inspired by William Cronon’s article entitled “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature,” which argues that the concept of wilderness is a historical and cultural construction and that the preoccupation with conserving “natural” spaces untouched by humans fails to imagine new, healthy, and sustainable relationships between humans and their environments. This meditational DV, which debuted at the 2007 European Media Art Festival, considers technology in this reevaluation of wilderness—by refusing to separate modern human life from relatively “natural” environments and by thinking about nature and the digital technologies that make this video possible in the same frame.