Micromort

Micromort is a fictional currency connecting nationality and the value of death. The project intends to emphasize how death has a different social value depending on where it occurred or who has been involved. The speculation is shaped on a “stock exchange monolith” composed of 16 screens, and four LED strips that show real data and videos related to wars, natural disasters or terrorist attacks. The price of every single death worldwide is calculated thanks to an algorithm which collects and processes more than 21,000 accurate data from public databases. The consistency of the machine design (the column), the data and the interfaces reveals the critical position against the supposed Western superiority based on economic values and the role and the ethics of media.