NILDEGREE is a computer game and financial simulation that teaches players how to invest in various ecosystems and biomes. Throughout 30 years of investment in nature, players can build their own portfolios by choosing amongst the following funds: Global Coral Reef Fund, Emerging Rainforest Fund, Taiga Equity Classic and our selection of many others, that you will can discover by playing the game. Each of the biomes has its initial offering value and it changes through out one's lifetime. In this financial solution, scarcity that works as a contemporary financial method to accumulate profit is not manufactured, but it is almost completely natural. The simulation does not teach us only about dramatic changes in our environment, but it reveals how these changes can be used for capital gains. One more important element of the game is a variety of green commodities that player needs to purchase. Failing to do so will result in Game Over.
Biographies of the artists and the groups:
Vladimir Todorovic was born 1977, in Zrenjanin (Serbia). Currently, he teaches at the School of Art, Design and Media at NTU, Singapore. He co-founded an art collective – " "Syntfarm" based in Singapore, the Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies "Napon" in Serbia and "Raster" Group. His work is focusing on defining a synthetic language for representing and experiencing various phenomena from our environment. His projects were exhibited at events including: ISEA08, Wired NextFest, Dislocate07, ISEA06, Siggraph 06, Transmediale 05, File 2004, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Machinista, Entermutlimediale 2, WRO 05, Museum of Contemporary Arts Belgrade, etc.
