Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who created the project "a-tree" which is an digital tree on the desktop of a computer. The tree grows in correlation to the carbon dioxide levels in the surrounding area which is read by a meter in the computer. This "a-tree" is meant to be a way to get the point across to many people how our world is being effected by our society. It is a way for a person to really see the effect we are having on the environment. She also has a printer virus that prints out a circle piece of a stump when the printer has used enough paper to equal that part of a tree. We know the tree is not really alive on the desktop but if it can grow and die, she says, than doesn't that make it real? She tries to bridge the gap in an attempt to get people to understand we must preserve our world.
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