ABSTRACT
This essay concerns the title of this paper starting by presenting one the most relevant agents driving climate change, an agent that is too big but not big enough: the air—the ordinary and extraordinary gas; the ubiquitous, the breathable, the rare yet common, outcome of living beings, exhalation of the Chthonic, inhalation of the Olympic—Air is an element, an hyperobject, a milieu from/in/through which our Second Body, a body that expanse beyond our physical boundaries reach everything. The narrative continue by revisiting a series of experimental pedagogies on art and technology on the 1960s and 1970s lead at the MIT and UTSoA to arrive at Airscapes #1 to illustrate a set of techno/scientific art pedagogical experiments with airiforms. Airscapes #1 is a work about representing air’s materiality against the dangerous idea of air as void or emptiness. Air as emptiness has driven humanity to the mistakable thought of considering air the unfathomable elsewhere. The essay concludes discussing the role of aesthetics in the techno-scientific pedagogical experiments.
