Human Beeings Are Plants Like Others

Installation, Useful Fictions, Ecole Polytechnique - UC Davis (2019)

Impact of Indoor Light Pollution on Human Phantasmagory and Imagination Capabilities
Arts & Sciences Symposium, http://usefulfictions/ucdavis.edu, Lab 4 DATA MATERIA with Didier Bouchon


Installation + Mock Academic Paper




Household indoor light pollution have not been studied yet. Thus, various data set help us understand impact on human beings of indoor light pollution such as: lighting appliances consumption, blue light exposure at night, lumen per square meter in residential  homes and sleep data. These heterogeneous information have been analyzed through low-tech algorithms developed for this study.
As a result of our research, we identified humans as physiologically and metaphorically light sensitive beings. We acknowledge the lack of darkness in people’s lives worldwide with 3 main consequences:
  • Raise of sleep disorders,
  • Higher sugar intake at night,
  • Lack of phantasmagoria .




Sources: World Health Organization, Data.World, Unesco, worldwide market research data
All data presented in this paper are used in the related art installation created during the Arts & Sciences Symposium, http://usefulfictions/ucdavis.edu, Lab 4 DATA MATERIA