tendergarden.io

tendergarden.io (2022) is a collaboration between Marina Resende and Graham Livingston.

The garden beds in the gallery bind the CO2 emissions produced by the running server. However, emissions and sequestration happen at radically different times. The single website hosted on the server, https://tendergarden.io, calculates and logs in real time the carbon footprint between the garden and the server.
The CO2 economy that has emerged in recent decades seeks to invent a methodology to connect economic production with its biochemical impact on the environment.

The work stages such conversions between data, energy, carbon, and biochemical labor, thereby raising questions about current CO2 calculation models. In the work, the ecological footprint of the digital economy materializes. More broadly, tendergarden.io questions the efficacy of applying logic of financial products in relation to CO2 policy.

The work was featured in group exhibitions at HAU4 (Berlin/online), Group Global 3000, (Berlin), Galerie M (Berlin), in 2022, and Künstlerhaus Dortmund in 2024.