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Geofinance: Financialities of the Anthropocene analyses a cause and effect relationship between financial systems and Earth-systems. The ‘geofinancial’ relation is elaborated on in the video essay Political Economy of Geofinance, which encompasses an analysis of a systemic conversion of environmental catastrophes and the use of financial products. This analysis is followed by a proposition: If derivative finance influences and instigates environmental catastrophes, then environmental emancipation needs to occur along similar speculative financial lines. Implied Volatile Earth is a financial mathematical model which brings together volatility mathematics and the spatial reconfiguration of territories through a model of the Earth covered with volatility surfaces. These graphs allow for price speculations on the future conditions of the territories that they cover, a zoomed-in section of the model underneath the whole view of the Earth together with the financial data next to it, propose the desired price to attain environmental emancipatory conditions of these territories.

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Commissioned by Stroom & The One Minutes
For ‘Nøtel Cinema’, curated by Lawrence Lek and Lua Vollaard.

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“The Volatility Surface is a graph that gives insight into the future characteristics of the price of a given commodity. It is used as a resource to influence a given territory by drafting trading strategies that speculate on its future financial status. The Implied Volatile Earth Agency (IVEA) develops and offers these models to corporations that aim to utilize the direct relationship that future prices have to future territories. A financial model of the Earth with correlating, coterminous mathematical models allows for a functional speculation on the environmental conditions to come.