Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism :: January 21 – February 16, 2008 :: Opening: February 8, 2008; 5–7 pm :: Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. :: Works by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Tom Sherman, Jane Marsching, Don Miller (aka no carrier), Colin Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini, Michael Alstad, and Andrea Polli.

Nature Version 2.0 is a survey of artists who reinvent environmentalism for a digital age in a number of ways: by examining how digital technologies can make ecological problems more salient, by reusing and recycling obsolete technologies for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain may require environmental protection much like nature. Re-imagining the relationship between nature and technology, Nature Version 2.0 suggests an ethics of the network and an environmentalism of natural, built, and digital spaces.

This exhibition is in conjunction with Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures, a two-day symposium on interdisciplinary, digital, and networked art and research that draws upon environmental science, computer science, design, hacking, gameplay, engineering, and ecocriticism. Following the Nature Version 2.0 artists’ reception on February 8, keynote speaker Natalie Jeremijenko will launch the symposium. 90 Degrees South, a multimedia performance by Andrea Polli will follow at 9pm in the Clifford Gallery.The symposium will resume in Golden Auditorium on February 9 for a day of talks and presentations by critics and exhibiting artists, 9am-5pm.

Nature Version 2.0 was curated by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir (aka EcoArtTech.net).