Jennifer Carniel

wetenschap & techniek , Taal , schrijven , Publicatie , omgeving , Media , installatie , Grafiek , Audiovisueel , Artistiek onderzoek , Archieven , Analytisch

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Jennifer Carniel is an Italian visual artist and researcher based in Rotterdam. Moving at the intersections of information design, natural sciences, landscapes and timescales she explores the frictions between observation and representation, particularly in scientific and geographic contexts. She digs into archives, scientific instruments, material traces, cartographic mapping and language to reveal how data and systems of knowledge are historically situated as well as culturally and politically coded. Through visual investigations, usually resulting in audiovisual installations and publications, she aims to depict the situated embodied perspective, one that embraces uncertainty, imprecision, erosion, decay, or just the not-yet-known.

**Archaeology of an Outer Place (2025), multimedia installation** - Seven photos of a martian rock sampling from the publication are materialised into engraved metal sculptures. A speculative geological investigation on the scientific attempts at reconstructing a rock drilled millions of kilometers away, and the planetary imagination they trigger. Rather than representations, they are residues; echoes of a calibrated, repetitive, taxonomic mechanical act. Each piece is at once autonomous and incomplete, only gaining depth when read in relation to the others, like fragments in an archaeological dig. Yet this is an archaeology without origin: an excavation of what is not-yet-known, where evidence does not lead to certainty but to speculation.

**Caught In Listening To Rocks (2023-2024), multimedia installation** - A nearly archeological investigation into the archival images taken by NASA Perseverance rover during its daily exploration of Mars. Conceived as a mirror placed on Mars but directed towards Earth, it aims at witnessing the traces our colonizing quest is leaving behind. Through two narrational threads, Earth on Mars and Mars on Earth, it exposes how scientific images and methodologies used to study Mars from Earth become proxies for proximity, drawing attention to the political weight they carry in defining our scale, place, and projected futures.

**Caught In Listening To Rocks, On Scale and Outer Space (2023), research book** - We have produced hyper-detailed maps of Mars but so far, seventy percent of the Earth’s seabed is still uncharted and unmapped. The research project witness the shift fron Outer Space to Outer Place and delves into the practices astronomers and planetary scientists employ in bringing the remote closer to the level of human experience, where proximity means understanding. It breaks down our relationship with scale and our identification with it in the context of a trans-scalar drama that leaves us disoriented, alienated and lost in scales.

**0.23%. How Can a Non-Place be Remembered in Ten Thousand Years? (2022), multimedia installation** - In the context of human attempts to deal with deep time and control the unseen, official WIPP footages have been selected to tell the story of a place that will be erased in roughly 30 years. The installation builds up a tension between what we can see today, our closest contact with this “mysterious dark matter”, depicted through the video essay, and what we will be able to see in the future, speculatively translated in the place’s dissolving map screen-printed on the pages of the last report documenting the marking solutions to be implemented.

**As Accurate As its Representation (2022), printed matter** - By unfolding the process of discovery, this project investigates the observation of the first pulsar star: the complexity of practically seeing what we don’t know yet and the way we acknowledge the presence of uncertainty in our scientific representations. By examining historical and scientific archives, it sheds light on the role of modern scientists as mediators—between observation and scientific analysis, between intuition and logic. What they produce is inevitably as accurate as the status of the theoretical and technical knowledge of their time.

**An Algorithmic Literacy On Disorientation (2021), multimedia installation** - Navigation organizes time and space around a given subject. The observation of a space and the projection of one's personal experience when exploring it generate unique individual orientating models, personal maps. These models aren't linear nor objective. While we navigate real and virtual spaces, abstract and physical, we are ourselves mapped and recorded, producing shifting data patterns that are impossible to deny. The project encourages to accept disorientation as a paradigm to navigate a city when the map doesn’t exist, and in a broader sense both physical and virtual spaces as well. Algorithms have been extracted from archival videos, materialized, and reinterpreted as underlying structures that govern the way we navigate nowadays, where chaos is the destination.

"bOre" at Dutch Design Week 2025 [Exhibition]

Datum: 18-10-2025 t/m 26-02-2026

Locatie: United Cowboys

In samenwerking met: CBK ArtOffice

https://ddw.nl/en/programme/14096/bore

Always Container Sometimes Contained [Exhibition]

Datum: 06-06-2025 t/m 29-06-2025

Locatie: Oud House

https://rotterdamarchitectuurmaand.nl/en/programme/item/always-container-sometimes-contained/

From Outer Space to Outer Place [Article]

Datum: 30-03-2025 t/m 30-03-2025

Locatie: Inactual Magazine

https://inactual.it/from-outer-space-to-outer-place/

Collective Learning on Situated Publishing [Residency]

Datum: 05-08-2024 t/m 11-08-2024

Locatie: Robida

https://robidacollective.com/projects/academy-of-margins/summer-school-of-the-academy-of-margins-2024

Plotting Patterns and Portals [Exhibition]

Datum: 15-12-2023 t/m 17-03-2024

Locatie: MU Hybrid Art House

"Caught in Listening to Rocks" was displayed in "Plotting Patterns and Portals", an exhibition about mapping life and landscapes, past and future in the context of the interplay between scientific reseach and artistic practices.

https://hive.mu.nl/item/caught-in-listening-to-rocks

The Book As An Unfolded Form [Exhibition]

Datum: 03-11-2023 t/m 26-11-2023

Locatie: De Meldkamer

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