Conducting Mobility - Brian Collier, Free Soil, Amy Balkin / Kim Stringfellow / Tim Halbur / Greenaction / Pond, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Laurie Palmer, Platform, Josephine Starrs / Leon Cmielewski :: Curators Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey collide with a carload of cultural projects focusing on the problems of mobility and energy :: @ greenmuseum.org.

Our world is continually shaped and reshaped by patterns of mobility. In the United States, motorization and single-use zoning are the principal components of a system that depends upon long distance travel and cheap energy. In the developing world, the wasteful patterns of the West are being repeated in places like China and India where increased automobile and fuel use are quickly becoming the norm. Continue reading

The Temporary Travel Office has just released a 44 page report that summarizes our research and initial recommendations for expanding the Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, FL. The report, titled Contaminating the Preserve, outlines two proposals: our 2006-7 proposal for an 800 km elevated boardwalk connecting the current Preserve to Guanabacoa, Cuba as well as the more recently proposed extension to the current Preserve that we are currently referring to as the Ash Site Annex, a 43 square mile area of Northwest Jacksonville that contains 7 former incinerator and ash- dump sites. You can download the report as a 3.4MB PDF file here. Continue reading

As part of their Talking about the Weather project — where they are collecting the world’s biggest collection of breath, to blow back global warming — Maria Miranda, Norie Neumark and Malcolm Smith (aka Misconstrue Masala, Misdemeanor Maximus and Rubix Tomorrow) will be collecting breath in Second Life :: April 6, 8:00 pm Sydney, Australia time (which is Sunday 6:00 am EDT and 12 noon Berlin and Cape Town); and April 7,  8:00 am Sydney, Australia time [which is Sunday 6:00 pm EDT, midnight Sunday/Monday Berlin and Cape Town). For your local time go here]

Sites / Places / Spaces of collecting breath: These are website based entries into SL: it seems to work better with Safari. The locations may get flexible as we get going. We’ll be taking photos and machinima for Gallery exhibitions. You’ll recognise us, we’re the Breath Collectors! Continue reading

EcoArtTech will be demonstrating their Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-­AT (ERAR­AT) at Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY each evening at dusk on 3/27, 3/28, and 3/29, 2008.

Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-­AT, Version 1.0, 2008: “Sooner rather than later, one comes up against the law that so long as risks are not recognized scientifically, they do not exist–at least not legally, medically, technologically, or socially, and they are thus not prevented, treated or compensated for. No amount of collective moaning can change this, only science. Scientific judgment’s monopoly on truth therefore forces the victims themselves to make use of all the methods and means of scientific analysis in order to succeed with their claims.” -German risk theorist Ulrich Beck Continue reading

[Image: Annina Rüst, eRiceCooker] FEEDBACK :: March 13 - April 19, 2008 :: Closing Reception: April 19, 3 pm :: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., New York.

What does it mean to think “green”? Eyebeam’s expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses—19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools—to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject.

As the culmination of Eyebeam’s Beyond Light Bulbs programming series, the show highlights the concerns, interests and work of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group, with work by individuals, collectives, students, local community groups and the Eco-Vis Challenge winners. Continue reading

STS Colloquium Joins with MIT’s Space, Policy and Society Research Group to present The UrbanSpaceStation - Natalie Jeremijenko :: March 12, 2008; 5:30 - 7:00 pm :: MIT, Building E15, Lower Level (Bartos Theater), Cambridge, MA.

The UrbanSpaceStation (USS) is a device designed to sequester the carbon dioxide emissions from buildings (which account for 80% carbon dioxide emissions in Manhattan and 35% of the national average) and return oxygen-enriched air to the building. It provides an intensive urban agriculture facility, coupling and reusing building waste streams locally, and potentially providing significant food. Continue reading

E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) :: March 15 – May 3, 2008 :: Opening: March 15, 7-9 pm :: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY.

E.P.A. is the first project of S.E.A, a large-scale program dealing with current environmental concerns and the way artists respond to them. E.P.A is a group exhibition surveying recent performance work from around the world that addresses current environmental crises. The exhibition will consist of videos, photographs, texts, related ephemera and a film program documenting recent performances. For this opening project Amy Lipton and founder/co-curator Patricia Watts of ecoartspace — a leading international environmental arts organization — are collaborating with Exit Art on the organization and presentation of this material. Continue reading

Massive Change - Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network - Call for Proposals :: Australasia_2008 C-M.TV: Media Arts Network is a curated new media web site in the context of global change. Proposal Australasia_2008 is ‘glocal’ responses to events that are happening around the world. From a ‘local’ viewpoint to a ‘global’ distribution feed. Current issues around forms of change that are effecting the planet: carbon counting, climate change, social networking, weather and ‘live’ data aesthetics…

The arena of Massive Change - since environmental tipping points are interconnected with other spheres that may have ramifications beyond the environment, into social and political systems - we open up that dialogue with you to interpret and make a proposal. Continue reading

Natural Capital: An interactive Tree of Concern - A plush textured surface under feet sets the immersive scene for ENESS’ latest digital ecopade on the banks of the Yarra River near Melbourne’s Fed Square. Artificial illumination reigns to produce a sublime environment that works diligently to interact with a spectrum of human senses. An exploration of the space will tap into personal theories relating to natural capital and our worldview in relation to climate change – a term that is embedded with infinite meaning and consequence.

A projected tree, with a purpose to retrieve vital information, matures organically in response to a metaphorical fertilizer – insert a leaf and observe immediate evolution, an engrossing possibility for eco-systems of the world in need of nurturing. Continue reading

The Climate Clock Global Initiative is seeking ideas from artist-led teams to create a major artwork entitled Climate Clock, which will measure changes in greenhouse gas levels, and be the first in a series of global projects calling attention to climate change. Climate Clock will be an instrument of long-term measurement and will collect data for 100 years. The artwork will be located in downtown San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s city center, and will be a collaboration between an artist-led team composed of artists, international and Silicon Valley engineers and other creative professionals who are working with climate measurement and data visualization. It is anticipated that the budget for the construction of Climate Clock will be between $5 and $15 million, depending upon the scope of the final proposal. Continue reading