In Construction. Recipes from Scarcity, Ubiquity and Excess
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffNo proper building. Not even an architecture project that would give a hint of what its future headquarters would be like. That didn't prevent El Bòlit, a brand new Contemporary Art Center, from opening its borrowed ...
GHG Photos: Images of a Climate Changed World
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThey say a picture is worth a thousand words. But some images represent something more; they have the power to create lasting impressions that embed themselves in the cultural psyche and spur us to action. ...
A Poem for Election Day
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffLet America Be America Again by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself ...
Artur Żmijewski: The Social Studio
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe videos of Artur Żmijewski are screened in almost all the major collective exhibitions and biennales these days. I caught a glimpse of his video in one such events and thought 'looks interesting' but i passed ...
Life Inside Skeleton Dwellings
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe excuse for my visit to Paris was SmartCity, a conference organized in the frame of the festival Emergences. Emergences is an 'international festival of electronic cultures and new art forms'. However, one must accept that ...
Magazines: Nozone X, a Minima, Neural, Cluster and Volume
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIt's been a long Summer and i spent it with the usual heap of magazines. Here's some of the best that fell into my hands: I received the latest edition of Volume over the Summer but it ...
The Cartography of Change
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffMcArthur Universal Corrective Map of the World On Sunday September 14, i had the great pleasure to host a panel on Cartography of Protest and Social Changes with 3 artists and activists i admire a lot: Brooke ...
Manifesta: Caring for Fungi and Pollution
Monday, September 1st, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI liked 'The Rest of Now', the Bolzano section of the Manifesta biennale so much that I fear that I'll end up forgetting about the other exhibitions I saw at the Biennale this week. Two of ...
Casa per Tutti / Housing for Everyone
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffEstablished in 1933 in the austere and elegant Palazzo dell'Arte designed by architect Giovanni Muzio, the Milan Triennale regularly hosts some impressive design, art and architecture exhibitions of the 20th century. Triennale Milano, entrance view. Photo ...
REACTIVATE!! Atomized, virtual gardens.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe REACTIVATE!! exhibition at the at the Espai d' Art Contemporani de Castelló, near Valencia (Spain), being an almost endless source of wonders i tried to cover last week (see REACTIVATE!! Part 1, Urban reanimations and ...
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI first came across the name of this extraordinary place in one of the BBC's Imagine-documentaries about German director Werner Herzog, who asked to be met in what he called one of his favorite places in ...
Virtual Transgender Suit, Avatar Termination and Other Online World Tales
Friday, August 15th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffYou might remember that a year ago Marc Owens designed the Avatar Machine, a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in ...
PIG 05049, a Conversation with Christien Meindertsma
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffChristien Meindertsma is a designer with an investigative mind. She analyzes, surveys and in her latest project she went as far as dissecting a pig. A few years ago, as she was graduating from the Design ...
Instant Urbanism
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffREACTIVATE!! is a two-fold exhibition which runs until late August, at the Espai d' Art Contemporani de Castelló, near Valencia in Spain. It engages with recent architecture projects which makes the most of disused, outworn or ...
REACTIVATE!!
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffAs announced two days ago, here's a lengthier report about REACTIVATE!! Espacios remodelados e intervenciones mínimas (Remodeled spaces and minimal interventions), an exhibition which takes place until August 31 at the Espai d' Art Contemporani de ...
ISEA 2008: Sourcing Water, Gendered Loitering
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffBorn 20 years ago, ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art has the objective of discussing and showcasing creative productions that apply new technologies in interactive and digital media. While i'm spending my last hours in ...
Ed Burtynsky’s Gallery for 10,000 Years
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffTwo nights ago, Canadian photographer (and Worldchanging Chairman Edward Burtynsky was speaking at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, proposing a 10.000-year gallery to go along with the Clock of the Long Now, as part ...
Ed Burtynsky’s Gallery for 10,000 Years
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffTwo nights ago, Canadian photographer (and Worldchanging Chairman Edward Burtynsky was speaking at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, proposing a 10.000-year gallery to go along with the Clock of the Long Now, as part ...
Creative Capital: Same stories, different models?
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI spent yesterday in a conversation at the Berkman Center about possible models to support “difficult” journalism - important news reporting that’s hard to support fiscally. Today, I’m at an event at Williams College, my alma ...
Unusual Collaborations at Creative Capital
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI’ve spent three days hanging out at the Creative Capital retreat at Williams College (Editor's note: For full disclosure, Worldchanging's Alex Steffen has also been a consultant at this retreat in the past). Creative Capital is ...