Stewdio has been temporarily relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in preparation for the opening of the Terre Natale (“Native Land”) exhibition this Friday at 8pm. Pictured above is the Terre Natale command center manned by Robert Gerard Pietrusko of Warning Office, Stewart Smith of Stewdio, and Nikolaus Völzow of the ZKM Institute. (Photograph by comrade Jeremy Linzee, formerly of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.) If in Copenhagen join us for the opening on Friday.

From Stewart Smith: Terre Natale, or “Native Land”, is an immersive visualization of human migration data. Our historical focus is primarily from 1990 through today, augmented by occasional older data points or forecasts into the future. Humans migrate for various reasons. Political turmoil may create refugee migrations. Environmental disasters create refugees of a different sort. Some people migrate to wealthier economies sending micro-transactions, or remittances, home to their native land. We have recently crossed a threshold; 50% of humans have migrated from rural areas into cities. As of 2007 one out of every two people is now an urban dweller.

See previous Terre Natale videos: http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale