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In our global society, oil is one of the most important resources of the modern age. In the face of rapidly advancing global warming, we are facing a radical transformation into a post-fossil fuel era. Understanding our current culture, which is shaped through and through by oil, is an important
foundation for a successful transition to a sustainable future.

The publication Reflecting Oil, which is based on the artistic research project of the same name at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) under the lead of the artist Ernst Logar, deals with the substance crude oil in connection with various concepts and phenomena of our petromodern era.

The publication Reflecting Oil summarizes the research project in four chapters with 20 contributions by artists, artistic researchers, and experts from the fields of environmental and geosciences,  providing a broad spectrum of perspectives on petroleum that relate to each other
and reflect aspects of petroculture.

Reflecting Oil is based on interdisciplinary crude oil investigations and reflections from the collaboration between art and science, and provides new knowledge for the necessary social, cultural, and technological change toward sustainable energy sources.

For more information see: https://www.reflectingoil.info/en/reflecting-oil-book-presentation/