free-soil.org - selection of projects -europe/USA

Tjebbe Van Tijen

Currator of the Imaginairy Museum

For over thirty years now, Tjebbe Van Tijen has been creating 'visualisations' of ecological matters, urban conflicts, alternative culture and historical subjects. Current research projects focus on ‘literary psycho-geography’, aerial bombing, mapping human violence, visual language, media history and education systems.

A recent interview, in OPEN (NAi Publishers) by Geert Lovink, highlights his 'Unbombing the World' and 'Ars Memoria' projects and gives an insight in his thoughts on collective memo

AIR

http://www.pm-air.net/ US, New York
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.Participants or "carriers" are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices in the network.

The Silence of the Lands

http://www.thesilence.org/
http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/digiwild/silence.htm

part of: Wild Nature and the Digital Life - by Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar
U.S.A. elisa.giaccardi@colorado.edu
The Silence of the Lands enables participants to map and annotate the soundscape of urban and natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share acoustic cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces of a social dialogue about the places and communities in which they live. The result is an affective geography that changes over time according to participants' perceptions and interpretations of their environmental settings.

22 Dec 2006 NeMe: Environmental Awareness through Eco-visualization http://neme.org/main/548/environmental-awareness Combining Art + Technology to Promote Sustainability by Tiffany Holmes Anywhere Eco-visualization technology made by media artists offers a new way to dynamically visualize invisible environmental data. Eco-visualization can take many forms. My own practice of eco-visualization involves animating information typically concealed in building monitoring systems, such as kilowatts or gallons of water used. A public display with real time visual feedback promotes awareness of resource consumption and offers a practical alternative to remote meters concealed in utility closets. The long-term goal of most eco-visualization practitioners is to encourage good environmental stewardship using hybrid practices of art and design. This essay contextualizes the emerging field of eco-visualization and its interdisciplinary trajectories. 24 Jun 2007 ISEA 2008 Singapore Call for Proposals: Singapore Artist In Residence @ National University of Singapore The organizing committee of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008 (ISEA2008) with generous support from the National University of Singapore (NUS), is soliciting proposals from New Media artists to work collaboratively with NUS centers of research and arts in preparation of work to be submitted for exhibition during the July 2008 ISEA in Singapore. AmyF Calls / Residencies Bruce Mau http://www.symposiumc6.com/speakers/mau The objective of Massive Change is to start a global movement of people committed to supporting a new vision of sustainable life on the planet. Envisioned as a collective project, Massive Change has become the optimistic design engine for the Bruce Mau Design practice. Well respected for broadening the idea of design, Mau has worked with countries, such as Guatemala and Denmark to envision the future of their country. www.brucemaudesign.com 25 Aug 2007 Offload: Systems for Survival September 13-16, 2007 Bristol, UK OFFLOAD is the UK’s first network media and systems arts event on nature, sustainability and ecology. The event brings together international, national and local artists and practitioners interested in creating work that use new and existing media. OFFLOAD is interested in interactive, playful, participatory and socially aware practice. 03 Jul 2007 alt.SPACE http://www.altspace.info/A network of artist research groups London, UK The alt.SPACE Network is an international, transdisciplinary formation of self-organized, non-institutional research groups with the collective aim of exploring cultural production through a variety of different media and through a range of contextual and theoretical approaches. They share the belief that in a time that stands witness to the increasing entrenchment and subsumption of research and criticality into the manufacturing processes of global, profit-driven corporate industries, self-organization and the non-totalizing, informal networking of micro-practices offer a site of resistance and dissent. AmyF Art + Activism / Urban/City 04 Jul 2007 Kitchen Budapest http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/projects Budapest
Kitchen Budapest, opening in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
AmyF	Education / Organizations / Urban/City / Virtual Soil

http://www.offloadfestival.org/offload07/?page_id=112

Public Smog and This is Public Domain are two ongoing projects by artist,
Amy Balkin, US.

Public Smog examines the commodification of the atmosphere. The project has been realised as a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale.

San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin's practice combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique, focusing on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.
Amy's projects have been presented in Radical Software at the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, and at Peer Trust, London, in collaboration with students on the Royal College of Art Curating Contemporary Art course. Publications include LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (2006), Metropolis Magazine (2006), and La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire (2000).

06 Nov 2007

SHARE

Global - Melbourne
http://shareoutpost.org/?cat=6

SHARE is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. Local SHARE groups hold free, open jams and workshops in their communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. SHARE furnishes the amplification and projection, and happens weekly to monthly in cities around the world.

02 Oct 2007

Social mental environmental

Berlin

A seminar and exhibition organized by Ulrike Solbrig, Åsa Sonjasdotter and Nis Rømer, in Sparwasser, Berlin, August 2007.
Text by Nis Rømer
Guattari's book "the three ecologies" was published in 1989 but not translated into English until 2000. In it, Guattari argues that the definition of ecology needs to be expanded to encompass social relations, human subjectivity and environmental issues. Addressing this point of view we titled the seminar accordingly.
The seminar was accompanied by an exhibition in Sparwasser also documented on the website: www.socialmentalenvironmental.net

17 Jan 2008

Greenwashing

Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities

Italy

GREENWASHING presents the work of 24 international artists and artist-groups whose practice suggests that the literalism embedded in old-fashioned concepts such as 'environmentalism' and 'nature' are not equipped to comprehend the ecological territory of our time. Today we negotiate an evermore urgent and pervasive ecological (and thereby cultural, political, social and economic) arena that is darkly shadowed by potentially catastrophic ecosystemic collapse. In the face of a constant bombardment of eco-economic guilt, corporate agendas and political point-scoring, what might emerge is genuine perplexity and false promises, though still possibly capable of unleashing creative change.

10 Oct 2007

Tap

Manchester, UK

"In The World is My Imagination, curated by Andrea Zapp at CUBE, nine artists and collectives are exploring the model and the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures, photography, found objects and custom built environments.

For the show, Hilary Jack has been commissioned to make a new installation. The work, entitled Tap, involves harvesting clean drinking water from an existing dripping tap (in the Ladies Toilet) which is be redirected into a reservoir and used to nourish an indoor plant. The plant in turn acts as host, feeding a myriad of miniature self propagated baby plants to which it is umbilically connected. Placed on a nest of domestic tables in the gallery the installation acts as a model and metaphor for domestic mains water systems and their satellite networks - networks currently under threat from various environmental and man made disasters such as flood, drought, sabotage and terrorist attack. The work hints at our fragility once those networks are threatened while highlighting our waste of and dependence on, one of our most precious natural resources - clean water."

arts and ecology- world

http://www.rsa.org.uk/arts/conferences/conference5/Speakers.asp arts and ecology: ARTISTS & speakers Jiang Jun, Designer and critic working on urban research and experimental study, Editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine. (only Asian/Pacific person -the rest are mostly European) Lara Almárcegui, artist Maria Theresa Alves, artist Alan Boldon, Arts & Cultural Management, Dartington College of Arts David Cotterrell, artist Jeremy Deller, artist Ed Gillespie, Co-founder Futerra Tue Greenfort, artist Dan Gretton, Co-director of Platform John Jordan, artist/activist Francesco Manacorda, Curator James Marriott, Platform Gustav Metzger, artist Heather & Ivan Morison, artists Marjetica Potrc , artist Kate Rich, artist Ralph Rugoff, Director Hayward Gallery Tomás Saraceno, artist Klaus Weber, artist 'nonspheres iv' by luis berríos-negrón http://blog.platoon.org/home/2/viewentry/499/%27nonspheres%20iv%27%20by%20luis%20berr%EDos-negr%F3n.html luis berríos-nergrón is an architect and artist from puerto rico. NONSPHERES IV is the latest work of luis berríos-negrón's investigation into the contemporary tension between nature and technology. this project will take the shape of a digitally generated lattice. the simulation of a carbon tetrahedral lattice will fill the whole gallery - suggesting a continuous remote set of relationships, intended to incite what freud calls 'oceanic feelings' (or infantile sensation of oundlessness between the ego and the outside world) and it's further supported by works on two geopolitically charged locations – teufelsberg (berlin) and bibi mahro (kabul). we've already reported about luis berríos-negrón.

free-soil.org - selection of projects -europe/USA redo

Tjebbe Van Tijen

Currator of the Imaginairy Museum

For over thirty years now, Tjebbe Van Tijen has been creating 'visualisations' of ecological matters, urban conflicts, alternative culture and historical subjects. Current research projects focus on ‘literary psycho-geography’, aerial bombing, mapping human violence, visual language, media history and education systems.

A recent interview, in OPEN (NAi Publishers) by Geert Lovink, highlights his 'Unbombing the World' and 'Ars Memoria' projects and gives an insight in his thoughts on collective memo

AIR

http://www.pm-air.net/ US, New York
AIR is a public, social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.Participants or "carriers" are able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices in the network.

The Silence of the Lands

http://www.thesilence.org/
http://leoalmanac.org/gallery/digiwild/silence.htm

part of: Wild Nature and the Digital Life - by Sue Thomas and Dene Grigar
U.S.A. elisa.giaccardi@colorado.edu
The Silence of the Lands enables participants to map and annotate the soundscape of urban and natural environments. Participants can record and collect ambient sounds, create and share acoustic cartographies, and use them as conversation pieces of a social dialogue about the places and communities in which they live. The result is an affective geography that changes over time according to participants' perceptions and interpretations of their environmental settings.

22 Dec 2006 NeMe: Environmental Awareness through Eco-visualization http://neme.org/main/548/environmental-awareness Combining Art + Technology to Promote Sustainability by Tiffany Holmes Anywhere Eco-visualization technology made by media artists offers a new way to dynamically visualize invisible environmental data. Eco-visualization can take many forms. My own practice of eco-visualization involves animating information typically concealed in building monitoring systems, such as kilowatts or gallons of water used. A public display with real time visual feedback promotes awareness of resource consumption and offers a practical alternative to remote meters concealed in utility closets. The long-term goal of most eco-visualization practitioners is to encourage good environmental stewardship using hybrid practices of art and design. This essay contextualizes the emerging field of eco-visualization and its interdisciplinary trajectories. 24 Jun 2007 ISEA 2008 Singapore Call for Proposals: Singapore Artist In Residence @ National University of Singapore The organizing committee of the International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008 (ISEA2008) with generous support from the National University of Singapore (NUS), is soliciting proposals from New Media artists to work collaboratively with NUS centers of research and arts in preparation of work to be submitted for exhibition during the July 2008 ISEA in Singapore. AmyF Calls / Residencies Bruce Mau http://www.symposiumc6.com/speakers/mau The objective of Massive Change is to start a global movement of people committed to supporting a new vision of sustainable life on the planet. Envisioned as a collective project, Massive Change has become the optimistic design engine for the Bruce Mau Design practice. Well respected for broadening the idea of design, Mau has worked with countries, such as Guatemala and Denmark to envision the future of their country. www.brucemaudesign.com 25 Aug 2007 Offload: Systems for Survival September 13-16, 2007 Bristol, UK OFFLOAD is the UK’s first network media and systems arts event on nature, sustainability and ecology. The event brings together international, national and local artists and practitioners interested in creating work that use new and existing media. OFFLOAD is interested in interactive, playful, participatory and socially aware practice. 03 Jul 2007 alt.SPACE http://www.altspace.info/A network of artist research groups London, UK The alt.SPACE Network is an international, transdisciplinary formation of self-organized, non-institutional research groups with the collective aim of exploring cultural production through a variety of different media and through a range of contextual and theoretical approaches. They share the belief that in a time that stands witness to the increasing entrenchment and subsumption of research and criticality into the manufacturing processes of global, profit-driven corporate industries, self-organization and the non-totalizing, informal networking of micro-practices offer a site of resistance and dissent. AmyF Art + Activism / Urban/City 04 Jul 2007 Kitchen Budapest http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/projects Budapest
Kitchen Budapest, opening in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
AmyF	Education / Organizations / Urban/City / Virtual Soil

http://www.offloadfestival.org/offload07/?page_id=112

Public Smog and This is Public Domain are two ongoing projects by artist,
Amy Balkin, US.

Public Smog examines the commodification of the atmosphere. The project has been realised as a public park in the atmosphere that fluctuates in location and scale.

San Francisco-based artist Amy Balkin's practice combines cross-disciplinary research and social critique, focusing on how humans create, interact with, and impact the social and material landscapes they inhabit.
Amy's projects have been presented in Radical Software at the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, and at Peer Trust, London, in collaboration with students on the Royal College of Art Curating Contemporary Art course. Publications include LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (2006), Metropolis Magazine (2006), and La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire (2000).

06 Nov 2007

SHARE

Global - Melbourne
http://shareoutpost.org/?cat=6

SHARE is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange in new media communities. Local SHARE groups hold free, open jams and workshops in their communities. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. SHARE furnishes the amplification and projection, and happens weekly to monthly in cities around the world.

02 Oct 2007

Social mental environmental

Berlin

A seminar and exhibition organized by Ulrike Solbrig, Åsa Sonjasdotter and Nis Rømer, in Sparwasser, Berlin, August 2007.
Text by Nis Rømer
Guattari's book "the three ecologies" was published in 1989 but not translated into English until 2000. In it, Guattari argues that the definition of ecology needs to be expanded to encompass social relations, human subjectivity and environmental issues. Addressing this point of view we titled the seminar accordingly.
The seminar was accompanied by an exhibition in Sparwasser also documented on the website: www.socialmentalenvironmental.net

17 Jan 2008

Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities',
http://greenwashing.lttds.org/index.html

Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities

Italy: 28 February – 11 May 2008
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna)
http://www.l-a-t-i-t-u-d-e-s.org/blogger/2007/12/greenwashing-website.html
http://www.lttds.org/projects/future/greenwashing/greenwashing.html

GREENWASHING presents the work of 24 international artists and artist-groups whose practice suggests that the literalism embedded in old-fashioned concepts such as 'environmentalism' and 'nature' are not equipped to comprehend the ecological territory of our time. Today we negotiate an evermore urgent and pervasive ecological (and thereby cultural, political, social and economic) arena that is darkly shadowed by potentially catastrophic ecosystemic collapse. In the face of a constant bombardment of eco-economic guilt, corporate agendas and political point-scoring, what might emerge is genuine perplexity and false promises, though still possibly capable of unleashing creative change.

The terminology and agency around 'the environment' and sustainability has become increasingly asymmetric and immaterial. Emissions' offsetting, food miles, environmental marketing, carbon debt, ecological footprints, and so on, are all recently-coined terms, tied to the anxious sense that the processes and practices of modernisation and globalisation, industrialisation and urbanisation have induced unprecedented deprivations and intrusions on the planet. Consequently there is the familiar refrain to limit growth, particularly in the developing world. Yet how do we reconcile this with the observation that ecological concerns are far greater in affluent societies where more basic needs have been met? And how can we more generally reconcile personal responsibility with collective consensus, local with global, or short-term remedies with visionary strategies? This exhibition sets out to pose such questions.

The artists presented in GREENWASHING adopt process-based and speculative approaches in their work which articulate energy and material transformations, fundamental ecological processes. Likewise, several works in the exhibition consider repositories of energy - whether waste, water, oil in ways that reveal previously obscured patterns, while similarly 'upcycling' meaning.

The diverse practices represented in the exhibition share a strategy in that they do not just passively lament the degradation of our planet, or only provide sound technical solutions. Instead they actively articulate the contradictions and responsibilities that we encounter personally and as a society. Art here does not necessarily proclaim a 'correct' ethical or green choice, but allows the possibility for broadening and analysing our perceptions and actions. It sets a critical attitude into motion that intervenes and infiltrates, re-interprets and decodes humans' relation to non-human life, as well as to each other.
With works by 25 artists (* new production):

• Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
• Lara Almárcegui*
• Maria Thereza Alves
• Ibon Aranberri
• Amy Balkin
• The Bruce High Quality Foundation*
• Chu Yun
• A Constructed World*
• Minerva Cuevas
• Ettore Favini*
• Cyprien Gaillard*
• Tue Greenfort*
• Norma Jeane
• Cornelia Parker
• Jorge Peris*
• Wilfredo Prieto*
• RAF / Reduce Art Flights
• Tomás Saraceno*
• Santiago Sierra
• Simon Starling
• Fiona Tan (born in Indonesia. lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands-New Media - Multimedia
• Nikola Uzunovski
• Sergio Vega*
• Wang Jianwei (Chinese/ video installation)
  
• James Yamada*

10 Oct 2007

Tap

Manchester, UK

"In The World is My Imagination, curated by Andrea Zapp at CUBE, nine artists and collectives are exploring the model and the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures, photography, found objects and custom built environments.

For the show, Hilary Jack has been commissioned to make a new installation. The work, entitled Tap, involves harvesting clean drinking water from an existing dripping tap (in the Ladies Toilet) which is be redirected into a reservoir and used to nourish an indoor plant. The plant in turn acts as host, feeding a myriad of miniature self propagated baby plants to which it is umbilically connected. Placed on a nest of domestic tables in the gallery the installation acts as a model and metaphor for domestic mains water systems and their satellite networks - networks currently under threat from various environmental and man made disasters such as flood, drought, sabotage and terrorist attack. The work hints at our fragility once those networks are threatened while highlighting our waste of and dependence on, one of our most precious natural resources - clean water."

free-soil.org - selection of projects

Jang-Won Lee
2-46 Mapo-ku, Sangam-dong
Seoul, 121-270
Korea
http://www.voltbolt.com/
http://www.leoalmanac.org/gallery/locative/suntracer/index.htm

sunTracer is a long-term, ongoing project spanning more than a decade. To be installed across the continents and the oceans, sunTracer chases and captures the movement of Sun 24 hours, and to be more accurate, it chases the altitude and azimuth of sun movement calculated through GPS coordinates of a given location.

The realtime images of different sites are transmitted via network to show human symbol of longevity and power - sun - but also to depict historical, cultural, seasonal, and even artificial landscape of the location.

A multi-channeled view centered around the icon of Nature tellingly conveys the diversities as well as the poetic porosity in human activities. This networked landscape, which is the combined ‘capture’ of different but simultaneously the same scenes of the earth, is a portrait of eternity and transience of a temporal and spatial existence.

The first phase of the project started in 2003, and aims to develop hardware and software and to experiment with the prototype of installation. Installed in multiple locations in Korea (so far at two observatories and one at a gallery) during the exhibition period from 2003 and onward, sunTracer captured and transmitted images of sky and subtle changes of the nature.

Continuing in-depth experimentation with scientist, curator, environmentalist, and anthropologist, sunTracer plans to build up its archive (STA: Sun Tracer Archive) as a permanent public art installation.

starting points for 14jan

http://www.free-soil.org/
http://www.treehugger.com

http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/?page_id=177
participating artists:
Peter Bennetts (Aus),
Elizabeth Day (Aus), David Haines (Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ, Samoa), Jonathan Jones (Aus) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson1111 (Aus), Janine Randerson (NZ),
Te Vaka (Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa), John Tonkin (Aus) and H J Wedge (Aus)

Further Information: Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator: (02) 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au
http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery/index.html
Http://www.weathertrouble.net

http://www.scanz.net.nz/index_main.html
Project Team
The SCANZ Project Team consists of Ian M Clothier (Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki), Trudy Lane, Mercedes Vicente (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery), John Fairclough (University of Auckland) and Deborah Lawler-Dormer (Moving Image Centre).
SELECTED ARTIST BIOS

http://www.scanz.net.nz/artists_nz.html
International
C5 / Steve Durie & Bruce Gardner
Avatar Body Collision
Nina Czegledy
Ken Gregory
Derek Holzer & Sara Kolster
Xiu Li Young & Jim Bell
Andrea Polli
Wolfgang Staehle
Out-of-Sync
Diana Burgoyne

New Zealand & New Zealand Internationals
Brit Bunkley
Stella Brennan
Avatar Body Collision
Adam Hyde
Caro McCaw
Alex Monteith
Josh On
Lisa Reihana
Raewyn Turner
Becca Wood

http://dreamaddictive.com/ap/
http://dreamaddictive.com/ap/viz.html
links for atmospheric data

This project is develop by DreamAddictiveLab, Tijuana B.C. Mexico 2007/ For more information please contact us : informes@dreamaddictive.com /
Wikipedia Data set License : GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 // Source Code License under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.1

http://www.turbulence.org/
http://www.transmediale.de/site/programm/overview/persons/
http://www.share.dj/ (sound)
http://www.environmentalvideos.org/
http://www.sunvalleyresearch.com/
http://www.weathertrouble.net/artists.html
http://hehe.org.free.fr/hehe/pollstream/index.html
http://www.damnmagazine.be/all.php?nr=11
http://www.tesla-berlin.de/_page.php?aktion=SHOW_PAGE&Page_ID=197&PHPSESSID=98dcc93fd59e4c0caf905c214e1f0755
http://www.tesla-berlin.de - go to links - artists there
http://blog.rebell.tv
http://blog.rebell.tv/?s=english
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://blog.rebell.tv/p3920.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=10&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCentral%2BAsian%2BVideo%2Bcurated%2Bby%2BStefan%2BRusu%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DRzl
http://www.nabi.or.kr/upgrade
http://www.aapmag.com/backiss.html
Art Asia Pacific
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artprojects/#project1
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/intermaps/
Ismael Celis, «InterMaps», 2003
© Ismael Celis

Categories: Internet

Keywords: Computer graphic

Relevant passages:

Rudolf Frieling «The Archive, the Media, the Map and the Text»

Check as well:

John Klima http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/john-klima/biography/

EARTH,» a unique geo-spatial visualization system, culls real-time data from the Internet and accurately positions it onto a three-dimensional model of the Earth. The «EARTH» project has numerous levels of viewer/collector participation. Viewers are able to travel from layer to layer by zooming in and retrieving imagery and data for specific regions. Networked «EARTH» represents all the online viewers by positioning satellites, and indicates a ‹best guess› as to where that viewer is in reality, located on the planet.
Michael Pinsky Ingo Günther Warren Sack Warren Sack «Conversation Map» John Klima «EARTH» Ingo Günther «Refugee Republic»

The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response

Exhibition:
The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response
curated by Jacqueline Bosscher, Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark

http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/?page_id=177

UTS Gallery - Ultimo NSW 2007 - 3 July

Participating artists: (selection from ASIA PACIFIC)
Peter Bennetts (Aus), Elizabeth Day (Aus), David Haines (Aus) & Joyce Hinterding (Aus), Jonathan Jones (Aus), Zina Kaye (Aus), Dani Marti (Aus), Maria Miranda (Aus) & Norie Neumark (Aus), Jason Nelson (Aus), John Tonkin (Aus) and H J Wedge (Aus)
Niki Hastings-McFall (NZ, Samoa), ) & Jim Vivieaere (NZ/Cook Islands), Janine Randerson (NZ), Te Vaka (Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa),

Further Information: Anneke Jaspers, Assistant Curator: (02) 9514 1652 | utsgallery@uts.edu.au

http://www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au/gallery/index.html

http://www.weathertrouble.net

“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past

Changing weather has spelt trouble before. But now we don’t quite know what to make of it, and it feels urgent. As the media, climatologists, environmentalists and politicians vie to shape our understanding and emotional responses, global warming reverberates through every level of culture. The uneasy relationship between technology, nature and culture is unsettled once more. The Trouble with the Weather: a southern response brings together artists from Australia, the South Pacific and South America. The installation, video, sound, sculptural, web-based and performative works respond to the unsettling effects of climate change. With their focus ranging from an emphasis on aesthetic imaginings, to investigations of tactical, emotional and pataphysical responses, the works in this
exhibition open out a space for dialogue on our complex socio-cultural relationships to weather in the current context.

New Climates

http://shanebrennan.net/climate/about-the-contributing-artists/
note: newclimates@gmail.com Shane Brennan for Asian Pacific Artists

2. Contributing Artists
Work by these artists will appear in the New Climates exhibition between February and May 2007. Please subscribe to this weblog and stay tuned.

Artists Contributing New Work Made For New Climates:
(AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN artists)

Michael Alstad
Anthony Discenza (DATA)
Peter Eramian
Futurefarmers
Jane D. Marsching (DATA)
Mary Mattingly
Joe Milutis
Cary Peppermint & Christine Nadir
Andrea Polli (DATA)
Giles Revell & Matt Wiley
Brooke Singer
Thomson & Craighead
Trumbull & Simon
Gail Wight
Lisa Young

Artists Contributing Existing Work:
Ben Engebreth (DATA)
Michael Mandiberg


BIOGRAPHIES
Artists Contributing New Work Made For New Climates:


MICHAEL ALSTAD is a Toronto based artist and curator working in installation and digital media. He is a founding member of the Canadian artist collectives Year Zero One and Symbiosis. Alstad has coordinated several site-specific projects in Toronto including The Clinic, The Bank of Symbiosis, The Hoarding Project, the Transmedia video billboard exhibitions, Teletaxi and Geostash. His recent interactive installation MELT, exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery in British Columbia, addressed the extreme climate change in the Canadian Arctic and our technologically mediated experience of the natural world. His web, video and interactive works have been included in many international media arts festivals and online exhibitions.
year01.com/alstad.

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ANTHONY DISCENZA is a digital media artist exploring the production, dispersal and consumption of mediated images in today’s society. Often working with material appropriated from mainstream, commercial media sources, he creates new meanings and modes of viewing from this recycled information. In addition to various individual projects, he participates in HalfLifers—an ongoing collaboration with video artist Torsten Z. Burns. Discenza’s solo and collaborative work has been shown at numerous national and international venues, including The New York Video Festival, The Pacific Film Archive, The Impakt Festival, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He lives and works in Oakland, CA.
anthonydiscenza.com.

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PETER ERAMIAN is currently completing his BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths College in London. He is from the south of Cyprus but of Armenian origin. He has exhibited in recent exhibitions throughout Britain as part of the Noise Festival and in a group show in Deptford, London, which he co-organised as part of Deptford X. Eramian is primarily concerned with the manipulation of video-time and the symbolic values that may stem from such tinkering. Without ever dismissing the fact that video can only represent time in time, and never actually reproduce it, he creates scenes inspired by philosophical texts, often referencing established symbols such as the sun and light, and explores their aesthetic relationship to time.
peter_eramian@yahoo.co.uk.

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FUTUREFARMERS, formed by Amy Franceschini in 1995, is a San Francisco based new media construct specializing in the creative investigation and development of new work. Franceschini is an artist and designer working with notions of community, sustainable environments and the conflicting rituals of humans and nature. Her work manifests on and offline in the form of dynamic websites, installations and printed matter. Since 1998, she has been collaborating with Josh On, Sascha Merg and Michael Swaine to realize projects such as Holding Patterns, They Rule and Communiculture. Their work was among the first websites to be collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
futurefarmers.com.

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JANE D. MARSCHING is a Boston based photographer, sculptor and new media artist working with issues of belief, representation, science, perception and climate change. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts College of Art. Marsching’s work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, CEPA Gallery in Buffalo and the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, among many other spaces. She was recently selected as a Foster Prize Finalist at the ICA in Boston, where she showed Arctic Listening Post, a project that combines prints of computer-rendered arctic landscapes, a remixed web-cam video of the North Pole, and Climate Commons, an interactive weblog discussion on climate change.
janemarsching.com.

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MARY MATTINGLY uses photography, new media projects and writing to imagine possible futures for our civilization. In digitally created composite photographs, she depicts post-industrial landscapes in which nomadic “navigators” create and utilize adaptive survival mechanisms, merging fashion, architecture and fine art. Mattingly’s richly imagined future also includes an online religion, a new method of calculating time, and an invented lexicon of words and symbols. Her work has been exhibited widely in the US and internationally. She is the recipient of a Yale School of Art Fellowship, a Scope Artist Grant, and an Opal Filteau Photography Scholarship. She has been published in Photo District News, The Photo Review, Photograph Quarterly, and Archis Magazine. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
marymattingly.com.

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JOE MILUTIS is a sound, radio and digital media artist. He is a visiting Assistant Professor of modern culture and media at Brown University. His recent projects include The Idea of South, a psychogeographical video tour of southern ruins, and the weblog project New Jersey as an Impossible Object. Milutis is the author of the book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything, published by the University of Minnesota Press, which examines ether’s technological, cultural and artistic history. His writing has appeared in such publications as ArtByte, Wide Angle, Film Comment, and Cabinet. He currently lives and works in Providence, RI.
joemilutis.com.

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CARY PEPPERMINT and CHRISTINE NADIR are conceptual artists working with digital technologies and performance.

Peppermint is known for his website Restlessculture.net which serves as a platform for his ongoing series of networked performances. His latest works explore how new media technologies both limit and expand our conceptions of nature and the environment. Cary has curated international exhibitions of digitally infused eco-art, including Technorganic and Wilderness Information Network. He has received numerous awards, including grants from Franklin Furnace, the Experimental Television Center and NYSCA. His work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Computer Fine Arts. He is assistant professor of digital art at Colgate University and is based in Hamilton, NY and New York City.
ecoarttech.net.

Nadir is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University where she is completing her dissertation entitled “Need, Function, Nature: Social Ecology and the Principle of Organic Economy in Modern Environmental Literature and Thought.” She has taught theory, literature, and expository prose at Columbia University and Oneonta State College and has presented her work internationally at conferences and universities including the American Comparative Literature Association, the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and Colgate University.

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ANDREA POLLI is New York City based digital media artist and director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College. In her work, she addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society, often collaborating with artists and scientists from various disciplines. Her recent project, Heat and the Heartbeat of the City, presented a series of sonifications of projected climate change in Central Park. With N. Polli created an ongoing, evolving audio-visual composition derived from near real-time Arctic data. She has exhibited, performed and lectured nationally and internationally. Polli was recognized by the UNESCO Digital Arts Award in 2003, and presented work in the 2004 Ogaki Biennale in Gifu, Japan and at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland.
andreapolli.com.

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GILES REVELL and MATT WILEY are designers living and working in London. Having gained valuable experience at a number of small design studios, Wiley joined internationally acclaimed studio Frost Design where he was appointed Creative Director in 2004. A year later, he co-founded Studio8 Design with Zoë Bather. In 2006, he collaborated with Revell to produce the photographic series At This Rate for a publication by the Rainforest Action Network. The project is designed to raise awareness of the rapid destruction of rainforests, which, given the current rates of devastation, will have vanished completely by 2060.
studio8design.co.uk.

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BROOKE SINGER is a digital media artist living in New York City. Her most recent collaborations have utilized wireless communications (Wi-Fi, mobile phones and radio frequency identification) to initiate discussion and positive system failures. She is currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. She recently created AIR, a public social experiment in which people are invited to use Preemptive Media’s portable air monitoring devices to explore their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots. Singer will collaborate with Brian Hubbard on an upcoming feature documentary about the EPA and government accountability for health and the environment.
bsing.net.

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THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD are London based artists working with video, sound and electronic, networked spaces to create gallery and site-specific artworks and installations. Their more recent web-based work, such as Light From Tomorrow, Weather Gauge and BEACON, explores the ways in which global communications networks are changing the way we perceive our world. They have exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including at the Tate Britain and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Jon Thomson lectures at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Alison Craighead is currently a researcher at the University of Westminster.
thomson-craighead.net.

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TRUMBULL & SIMON is the artist duo Sarah Simon and Mat Trumbull.

Simon will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, in May 2007. Her film, video, installation, drawing and performance work often revolves around the intersections of history and memory, and the oscillating borders separating fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on spatiality and scale. Her current work-in-progress, Domestic Taxonomies and The Space Between, questions the various ways in which we collect, preserve, organize and display objects belonging to our personal histories and memories. Simon has exhibited and screened her work in Gallery TK in Northampton, Goldsmiths College in London, and the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Coagula Gallery at the Brewery Art Complex and Ghettogloss Gallery in Los Angeles.
s.simon9@gmail.com.

Trumbull received his Bachelor’s degree in Forest Ecology from Hampshire College in 2006. He lives in Northampton, MA, near the fairgrounds and the airport. He makes music, bad landscape paintings and thinks about gardens.
mat.trumbull@gmail.com.

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GAIL WIGHT is a conceptual artist investigating natural and biological phenomena and the history of science and technology. She is on the faculty of Stanford University’s Art Department, where she runs the studio for Experimental Media Art. She has lectured and exhibited her work internationally, including shows at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands, Exit Art in New York City and the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. She is the recipient of several honors, including the Wired Magazine Rave Award Nominee for Art and the Wallace Gerbode Visual Arts Award. In 2008, she will collaborate with paleontologist Liz Hadly to create an interactive video environment focusing on climate change and extinction. Wight lives and works in Berkeley, CA.
notochord.org.

free-soil.org

http://www.free-soil.org/index.php?cat_id_rel=4

03 May 2007

Warning: Art!

Arts in (Climate) Crisis

By Joni Taylor
Part 1

There are 3 artistic strains in dealing with climate change.

One is reducing the co2 emissions produced by artists themselves - not flying to that next art fair or finding alternatives to energy sucking Plasma screens. Just like a UN delegate, an artist is accountable for his /her carbon footprint. Using recycled and green products is another indication of ‘Slow Art’.(The next art movement perhaps?) London’s seven meter tall WEEE man, made of the industrial detritus used in a typical lifetime, was a successful shock factor device standing on the River Thames.

Another method is making art that depicts the effects of warming and pollution. The most memorable tools in Gore's film were the postcards of glaciers in the Twenties, compared with the dried up and sandy images of today. Photographers relish travelling to exotic places to bear witness to both environmental damage and utopian beauty, and bring back images to share with a city bound audience.

The last, most innovative area is the collision of art and science to create visualising tools, or to quote worldchanging ‘making the invisible, visible’. By transforming data and graphs to a visual language, artists can demonstrate the bare facts with humour and delight. Some even use ecological systems in their work, mimicking nature.

Here are the ten art projects that deal with the subject of Climate Change, including free-soil.org
(REORDERED IN RELEVANCE EG COUNTRY/DIGITAL MEDIA)
problem: most are USA/Europe countries

7. Free Soil ***
international collaboration of artists: CORE PLACE TO SEARCH-
(like green museum)
Free Soil is an international collaboration of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of the environment. Members have developed art projects about greening cities (The Hot Summer of Urban Farming, Copenhagen); the pollution of the Baltic Sea and resulting ‘Red Tides’ of toxic algae (Selective Memory, Starlsund) and F.R.U.I.T, a travelling installation examining how the city is connected to the surrounding agricultural areas. For ISEA 2006 in San Jose, Free Soil conducted a bio diesel bus tour of Silicon Valley, pointing out the environmental consequences of the Hi-Tech industry, and offering alternatives, such as mycoremediation - cleaning soil by using mushrooms. They also foster discourse and give support for critical art practices that reflect and change the urban and natural environment via features and projects on their website. Free Soil believe art can be a catalyst for social awareness and positive change. F.R.U.I.T is currently touring as part of Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art.

8. Andrea Polli
New York / digital media artist***
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals. She currently works in collaboration with atmospheric scientists to develop systems for understanding storm and climate information through sound (a process called sonification). Her Queensbridge Wind Power Project presents a vision of a future when meeting energy needs can enhance the beauty of a city by investigating how clean, renewable wind power could be integrated into the landmark architecture of the Queensboro Bridge.

3. Hehe: Nuage Vert and Pollstream
French / interactive environments **
Across a number of projects, the French collective Hehe create a sense of constant rather than delayed feedback. Pollstream is an intervention in environmental ethics. It creates a series of interactive environments in which the audience are in a process of monitoring localised pollution at the very same time that they produce it. The audience is required to conceptualize themselves as responsible - collectively and individually - for their emissions. Using visual, kinetic and sonic technologies, it undermines these typical defences of disengagement by speeding up the normal time it takes for our actions in and on the environment to have consequences. Another project, Nuage Vert, uses lasers and a camera tracking system to project colour coded information onto a waste burning plant/power plant within a local area that is visible to all residents.

4. Translator II: Grower by Sabrina Raaf
Chicago /data readings of audience carbon dioxide - visualized**
Humans also produce carbon dioxide. Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist working in experimental sculptural media and photography. Translator II: Grower is a small rover vehicle which moves around the gallery drawing vertical lines up and down on the wall with a green crayon. The height of each line is determined by the level of carbon dioxide present in the room, which the robot reads via a small digital sensor mounted on its shell. The carbon dioxide, of course, is generated by gallery visitors, This piece makes visible how art institutions depend on their visitors to make them 'healthy' spaces for new art to evolve and flourish within. Watching the artistic output of a machine that is so sensitive to its environment makes people in the space more sensitive to their environment and its conditions.

10. Natalie Jeremijenko
USA / design and analysis of tangible digital media.
Jeremijenko is an inventor and engineer whose work focuses on the design and analysis of tangible digital media. She bridges the technical and the art worlds and her mission is to reclaim technology and apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results. Her project, One Tree, features the planting of 2,000 walnut trees in sensor-equipped planters around San Francisco. The condition of the growing trees will reflect the region's surprising discrepancies in climatic, environmental and socio-economic conditions. Another project Bit Cab inserts geospecific data directly onto New York City taxi display units. Her much acclaimed Feral Robot Sniffer Dogs were hobbyist kits made to modify commercially available toy dogs to potentially detect toxic substances in the air.
Fade to Black is a network of webcams oriented skyward. The images on the webcam fades to black as pollutant film accumulates on the lens. It provides visual and empirical information on air quality.


2. Cape Farewell
ARTIC - may have potential/ video
Cape Farewell was conceived by artist/filmmaker David Buckland and during the past five years he and a varying team of artists, writers, choreographers, filmmakers, environmentalists and scientists have worked on a 100-year old Dutch schooner called The Noorderlicht. Located in a fjord near Longyerben, Svalbard, just north of the 79th parallel, they respond to the environment and reflect the earths change where its most sensitive, the arctic circle. They draw attention to the role ocean currents play and the effect that rising CO2 levels and changing weather patterns will have. The team have already developed a major exhibitions programme, a book Burning Ice - Art & Climate Change and the DVD Art From A Changing Arctic. On his last mission, Buckland invited novelist Ian McEwan, playwright Caryl Churchill, artist Antony Gormley and choreographer Siobhan Davies. Turner prize winner Gormley worked in conditions of -32 degrees to complete an ice sculpture that lasted only three months.


6. Precipice Alliance and Mary Ellen Carroll
New York /The Precipice Alliance (commission projects :
no other projects uploaded yet)
The Precipice Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting awareness about global warming through the visual arts. They believe visibility is the key to positive action and that artists can give form to the intangible and deliver a powerful message. They commission projects that specifically address climate change in order to direct public attention to the urgency of the issue. Large-scale contemporary art will be executed in public venues. The first commission is by New York-based conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll. It consists of a 900-foot-long window display in the buildings of the former American Can factory, comprised of eight-foot-tall neon letters proclaiming, ‘IT IS GREEN THINKS NATURE EVEN IN THE DARK’. It is ‘indestructible language’, focusing on the fluid, open-ended nature of words. The organization hastens to note that the art piece is ‘carbon neutral’, employing low-wattage transformers and lead-free glass tubing, as well as using solar panels to offset the energy consumed.

5. Canary Project
World /photographing
By photographing landscapes throughout the world that are currently undergoing dramatic transformation or are vulnerable to predicted changes, Canary Project conveys the urgent reality of global warming. Their team of scientists, writers and artists aim to present these images in ways that speak to diverse audiences and foster positive action. Project co-founder Susannah Sayler will be photographing 16 landscapes selected in consultation with leading climate-change scientists and journalists, showing that global warming is already affecting the world in a variety of ways and affecting every place on earth. In the second phase of the project, they will photograph solutions to the problem, such as sources of alternative energy, preparations for already predicted changes and various green products. Sayler has travelled to ‘hot spots’ and her haunting images include glaciers in Austria and bleached and dead coral in Belize. So far the images have been shown on buses in Denver with the words ‘This is what Global Warming looks like’ and online publications such as Polar Inertia.

1 Halliburton SurvivaBall
Florida/performance
‘The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,’ said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative at the Catastrophic Loss conference held in Florida. ‘This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change’. It will include a sophisticated communications systems, nutrient gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities and a daunting defense infrastructure. The only problem is, the SurvivaBall was a fake, and so was the Halliburton representative. The Yes Men are pranksters/performers who assume other identities - ‘identity corrections’ - to make fun of and bring attention to the serious issues of corporate accountability and global greed. They are invited to events and TV shows through their various websites and present ridiculous and unbelievable corporate strategies. No one seemed to doubt their appearance in Florida, and fellow representatives even asked about the SurvivaBalls anti-terrorism capabilities. Other stunts have included the fake GWBush site and apologising on behalf of Bophal for their chemical spill disaster of 1984.

Survivaball: Halliburton solves global warming!

May, 2006 | "The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. "This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

9. Platform
London based / research campaign and cultural intervention project
For over 20 years the London based Platform has been engaging in making transparent that which corporations and companies wish to remain hidden. 90% Crude is a sustained investigation into the power and impact of transnational corporate trade and business. Other projects include a research campaign and cultural intervention project on Shell and BP oil companies (Gog and Magog); a series of experimental interventionist walks in the London's financial district (Freedom in The City) and Desktop Killers which links corporations to genocide. In Unravelling The Carbon Web, Platform works to reduce the environmental and social impacts of oil corporations, and And While London Burns is a downloadable audio tour of London - a soundtrack for the era of climate change - in their words ‘a requiem for a Warming World’ . Their latest initiative is Remember Saro-Wiwa and will be Britain's first Mobile memorial. It is in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and his colleagues who were executed after anti oil campaigns in the Niger Delta.


Commissioned by DAMn Magazine
http://www.damnmagazine.be/all.php?nr=11
GLOBAL ISSUES: WARNING: ART / CREATIVE CLIMATE CHANGE
Artists have had an enduring relationship with landscapes and never been at odds with outspoken views. This isa selection of some of the projects that are creatively responding to global warming and climate change.

artlink magazine vol 25 no 4

Ecology: Everyone's Business
Vol 25 no 4

http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=2224
Art in relation to the environment and ecology engages a distinct subgroup of artists around the world. They deal with waste and obsolescence, water, air and earth, health and toxicity. Eco-warrior artists work with science, technology, farming, water resources, recycling industries, health, to make art which communicates the urgency of action on climate change. This issue includes the recent work of
Gregory Pryor, Michael Harkin, Ken Yonetani, Melissa Hirsch, Liz Woods, Lloyd Godman, Ian Hamilton, Bronwyn Wright, John Dahlsen, Ann Wizer, Alice Crawford and Chris Mulhearn.
The 'green architecture' sector is critiqued by eco-architects Paul Downton and Emilis Prelgauskas and there is discussion of how the art sector as a whole needs to address the environmental impact of its activities.
A social ecology where artists led by Jean Bojko work with the populations of small, neglected villages in France gives another perspective on what art can be and do.

Ecology Network
Joni Taylor, feature
Free soil http://www.free-soil.org is an international collaboration of artists, activist, researchers and gardeners who take a participatory role in the transformation of our environment. Founded in 2005 by Amy Franceschini (USA) Stijn Schiffeleers (Belgium), Nis Romer (Denmark) and Joni Taylor (Australia), it aims to foster discourse, develop projects and give support for art practices that reflect and often change the urban and natural landscape by working on issues such as sustainability, environmental art and greening cities.


Picturing Climate Change
Simon Torok, feature
CSIRO science writer Simon Torok summarises the facts about how global warming is affecting every one of us in Australia. The marks of climate change, so far, are less tangible and Torok proposes that it is the challenge for art and science to help people see it. Torok initiated a project during his time in England which aimed at bringing art and climate science together through the use of objects and images to visualise our future climate and in turn provoke a strong emotional response amongst audiences.

Ecology: Everyone's Business
Art in relation to the environment and ecology engages a distinct subgroup of artists around the world. They deal with waste and obsolescence, water, air and earth, health and toxicity. Eco-warrior artists work with science, technology, farming, water resources, recycling industries, health, to make... More »
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Adelaide and Beyond
Thinkers, artists, regional arts, art in schools, human rights, biotechnology, environmental art, youg artists in Adelaide. Cover by Kristian Burford. Guest editor Stephanie Radok.... More »
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Taking in Water
Artists are focusing on water as a subject from environmental, political and social perspectives as well as aesthetic. In recent years there have been many exhibitions and projects around water, wind, weather, irrigation systems, pollution, tides, waste, threats to waterways, and the nature of islan... More »
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Good Taste: Food, Consumption & Pleasure
Guest editor Hannah Fink. There is a current of nausea running through this issue...yet this queasiness has perhaps more to do with a dis-ease with the manner in which we take our pleasures than the creative impulse itself. Food as cultural history, cookbooks, artists as cooks, artists' recipes, be... More »
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Public Art in Australia
The last issue looking at public art was in 1989. Since then the act of putting an artwork into the public arena has become a theatre of conflict, misunderstanding and mismatch of expectations of the parties involved. Issues of community consultation, funding, location, relevance, corporate policy... More »
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Art & the Spirit
Wide-ranging responses to issues of spirituality in the visual arts. Looks at the role of indigenous art and its relationship to land. Examines significant contemporary exhibitions addressing art and the spirit. ... More »
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Culture/Agriculture
Looking at the Landscape, the cultural meanings of what we grow, region = bioregion, botany and the body, farming as art, bush tucker as well as reviews of exhibitions and books make up this feast of an issue. ... More »
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Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought
A special issue which in arguing the old art/ craft debate is proposing usable theories for practice. What is the future for craft? Re-evaluating 'women's work', craft, science and technology. Reviews... More »
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Art, Architecture & the Environment
Special issue. Art as conservation of natural and built environments, art as ecology, new alliances, eco-design, autonomous houses, ecopolis, earth building, housing co-operatives, collaborative designs, sustainable cities. Great articles and photos.... More »
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Full Articles in Vol 25 no 4
Editorial
By Stephanie Britton
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Artrave
Artrave by Edblog
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Ecology: Everyone's Business
Editorial by Stephanie Britton
What does the onset of climate change mean to an artist today? We have known about species extinction for decades, and the death of ecosystems; artists whose work evolved around these issues first emerged during the sixties. — More »
Black Death: Species Extinction in WA
Feature by Gregory Pryor
After 25 years of living in Victoria, Gregory Pryor's rediscovery of and new found appreciation for the Australian landscape came about due to his relocating to Perth. Subsequent to this profound experience whereby he felt he was viewing the Australian landscape for both the first and last time, Pryor set out to create a body of work which entailed around 200 detailed drawings made from the Western Australian Museum's archives. Through detailed examinations of individual flowers and specimens, Pryor was able to metaphorically travel across a huge amount of Australia and locate specific relationships between these flowers and the lands ancient human inhabitants. — More »
A Silent Walk: The Sculpture of Stephen Hart
Review by Louise Martin-Chew
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane 4 August - 23 October 2005 — More »
Adam Cullen: Maintaining the Rage
Review by Tracey Clement
Adam Cullen: Maintaining the Rage Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 1 - 24 September 2005 — More »
Alex Spremberg: Paint-Works
Review by Ted Snell
Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth 25 September - 16 October 2005 — More »
Brook Andrew: Hope & Peace
Review by Penny Craswell
Stills Gallery, Sydney, 3 August – 3 September 2005 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, 5 July – 7 August 2005 Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 23 November – 18 December 2005 — More »
David Martin: In Visible Light
Review by Briony Downes
Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania 8 July - 7 August 2005 — More »
Flux2: New Art from Western Australia
Review by Ric Spencer
Flux2: New Art from Western Australia Brendan Van Hek, Ben Sullivan, Bennett Miller, Helen Smith, Pilar Mata Dupont and Tarryn Gill Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth 18 September - November 2005 — More »
Mark Siebert: Out of Circulation
Review by Stephanie Radok
Downtown Artspace, Adelaide 7 - 24 September 2005 — More »
National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition 2005
Review by Elvis Richardson
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 15 July - 9 October 2005 — More »
Red Shoe Delivery Service
Review by Juliet Peers
Melbourne International Arts Festival George Adams Gallery, the Arts Centre and various locations around Melbourne 7 - 22 October 2005 — More »
South Australian School of Art International Drawing Conference: Drawing is Everything
Review by Sera Waters
South Australian School of Art International Drawing Conference Drawing is Everything Adelaide 4 September - 9 October 2005 Ruth Hadlow: Patternbook South Australian School of Art Gallery Dialecticaline Prospect Gallery Drawing is a Verb Adelaide Central Gallery2 — More »
Space Between Words: A Collection of Subjective Narratives
Review by Timothy Morrell
Queensland Centre for Photography 17 September – 16 October 2005 — More »
Trudi Brinckman: White Plastic Cup
Review by Sharon East
Trudi Brinckman: White Plastic Cup Kelly's Garden Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart 24 - August - 30 September 2005 — More »
White Noise
Review by Luke Jaaniste
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne 17 August - 23 October 2005 Curated by Mike Stubbs — More »

EcoTV: A South Australian Experiment
John Harris, feature
As part of the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival, the inaugural EcoTVC competition for a 30-second television commercial was held to create greater public awareness of key environmental issues. The winner was Peter Miller, a 22-year-old superannuation administrator and writer whose entry showed people hopping around dressed ridiculously as endangered native animals. The commercial ended with the slogan "You'll appreciate the real thing...once they're gone", together with a final shot of a Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby as an example of the real thing that could become extinct.

Artists' Footprints
Richard Smith, feature
Smith offers some suggestions for those interested in the ecological (and social) sustainability of an art work and introduces the notion of 'EarthLabel' as a way of making artworks ecologically and socially accountable - and maybe even more marketable. For more information visit: www.myfootprint.org

Drought and Art: 10% and Falling
Jennifer Lamb, feature
On 2 July 2005 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery held a community forum to discuss the water crisis in the region. The all-important forum only happened because of art, or more specifically because Goulburn Regional Art Gallery had organised the exhibition Water Works of 16 regional artists' works about water sustainability and survival. Gallery director Jennifer Lamb tells the hair-raising story of a town learning to do without water and the role of artists in coming to terms with this.

From the River to the Source: Lloyd Godman's Ecological Explorations
Lawrence Jones, feature
Lloyd Goldman's twin careers of serious and successful organic gardener and practising artist of great creative energy converge in new and constantly surprising ways to make art about the ecological concerns that underly his gardening. Over almost three decades his art has widened out from relatively traditional landscape photography to include elements of performance, audience participation art and multimedia installation to explore the tensions between electronic consumer society and the ecosystem.

Overtaken by Glaciers: The State of Eco-Architecture
Paul Downton Emilis Prelgauskas, feature
Downton and Prelgauskas are advocates for ecological architecture and urbanism and through this article explore a little of what is happening in Australian architecture and compare overseas experiences. Australian progress in the art of ecological living has been fairly slow and although it hasn't matured yet, this article is optimistic in its exploration of some of the encouraging signs. What is missing they say is sufficient enlightened clients and a culture that is ecologically attuned to the artful songs of the biosphere.

Remediation as art with Gavin Malone
Author & Artist: Ms Stephanie Radok, feature
For a decade the art practice of Gavin Malone has been concerned with ecological rehabilitation and cultural interpretation. A former grazing property and thus a degraded ecosystem, the 185 ha property belonging to fellow artist Greg Johns overlooking the plains of the River Murray, has been transformed into what Malone suggests is not just a sculpture park with a Landcare project but actually reconceptualises art as ecology.

XSProject: From the (Dirty) River
Ann Wizer, feature
Artist Ann Wizer has been on a mission to protect the environment and reduce poverty in South-East Asia for many years. She has battled against indifference of the most callous variety. Undaunted she continues to find creative solutions to make a difference. Here she shares the trials and tribulations of working long-term and hands-on with consumer waste in Jakarta - complete with the stench of landfill.