With the Crypto Miner Car, the LarbitsSisters speculate on the changing nature of the data economy in light of the ecological and social crisis. The Crypto Miner Car is a blockchain-based installation presenting a prototype for wealth redistribution that confronts today’s technological and environmental challenges with disruptive thoughts on an alternative vision of energy use. Central to the work is a crypto mining platform with GPU units hacked to recover waste heat and power a car while mining crypto coins.
The car, once status symbol of modernity, acts here as a visionary trigger probing possible visions of the future between reality and fiction. Ideas about modernity are shattered and technological challenges are approached in a playful and provocative manner. Visions of sustainable energy production and self-driving vehicles are brought together here in a disruptive scenario.
The Crypto Miner Car brings a car that moves towards a new, contemporary and disruptive form of mobility. Within the critical discourse on climate change, CO2 emissions and global warming, this work explores how the computational process and massive computing power involved in the mining process of cryptocurrencies can be deployed in the urban and social fabric, within the context of climate change.
