ATLAS is an ongoing series developed across institutional and exhibition contexts, with the current works forming part of a body that will be presented for the first time at the Royal College of Art. ATLAS is a series created through the Ana-Cartography of environmental scans, operating as a manifold; the utilising of environmental photographic capture and Post-Image logics to attempt to ascertain a speculative map of environments through the painting (layering and dissemination) of thousands of images, recursively forming a visualisation. The field produced acts as a cartography of the environmental image, allowing data and signal to fold into a recursive topology displaying the residue of environmental capture, machinic sensing and ana-cartographic drift. This is the direct application of NDVI-derived indexing and entropic imaging to generate photographic surface as a lifted field-event; a transformation of environmental sedimentation into an indexed image-field through the spectral image.

ATLAS utilises metaphysical duality as a condition, considering the image as a visual field, a vessel acting as an autogenic cognitive map, with each formation capturing the continual reconfiguring of environments across materiality and the relationship between machinic, environmental and planetary registers. Recursive layering and drift within ATLAS’s closed fields allow data-trauma into the planetary image as topology, displaying an evolving media archaeology of sensors within the contemporary condition, and allowing signal and material intelligence to expand a continuous and recursive assimilation of environmental data and postdigital residue as infinite recursions of signal and trace. This sublimation of residue acts as a reactionary compounding of our digital conditions, considering how necropolitics is enacted within the digital realm; utilising the frameworks found currently regarding data, saturated media, hyperobjects and the increasing recursion of the digital as a tool to visualise a consolidated map of an environment under continual pressure.