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 ...
Provocative, political…and very funny
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThere’s a lot of work being shown at the Creative Capital workshop at Williams College that’s political and provocative, but not much that’s laugh-out-loud funny. Thank god for Golan Levin . Levin is a Pittsburgh-based artist and ...
The Healthcare Panopticon
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffA quick project seen last month at the RCA Summer show. This one is by Design Products (platform 11) graduate and engineer Benjamin Males: The Static Obesity Logging device, part of Target set of projects, can be ...
This is the Sublime of Our Time
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffStewart Brand writes up Ed's talk thusly: Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year Clock in its Nevada mountain. The gallery would consist of art ...
The 10,000 Year Gallery
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffReaders in San Francisco have the opportunity tomorrow to hear Worldchanging Chairman Ed Burtynsky deliver a Long Now Seminar. Ed will be talking about his ideas for long-term intergenerational communication through art: There should be a gallery ...
FreshFacedAndWildEyed
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWhile in London i went to see a few photography exhibitions. And yes! i realize i wrote a couple of days ago that i'd focus on the RCA show this week but i can't keep that ...
London Biotopes and Body Ecologies
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe largest part of the pharmaceuticals and chemicals we take go through our bodies and eventually end up in waste water. As water and waste treatment plants haven't been designed to filter them, the content of ...
Life Support: Animals as Medical Companions/ Devices
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffRevital Cohen's final project at the Design Interactions department looked at how cross-breeding man with machines or other species can open up new design opportunities and a space for debate (see her previous project the Telepresence ...
Committed Places
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI found this edition of the PHotoEspaña festival amazingly good. One of the most thought-provoking shows, Committed Places, Topography and the Present, displays the work of ten photographers who use the genre of topography photography as ...
Looking Behind the War on Terror
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffThe Helga de Alvear gallery in Madrid is currently running a (very timely) exhibition on the controversial topic of Extraordinary Rendition. The expression was coined by the Bush administration to define new legal measures designed to ...
Food Mayhem and Corn Education
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWe are living in food mayhem: yesterday morning a nutritionist was complaining on French tv that because the country had turned its back on the usual bread and jam breakfast in favour of American-style fat and ...
Food Mayhem and Corn Education
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWe are living in food mayhem: yesterday morning a nutritionist was complaining on French tv that because the country had turned its back on the usual bread and jam breakfast in favour of American-style fat and ...
The New Normal
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffIt's not everyday that Dick Cheney gives its title to an art exhibition. In the weeks following September 11, the U.S. Vice President justified a steep increase of surveillance measures by explaining that "Many of the ...
Running the Numbers, the Next Installment
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffTo help people picture their impact, photographer Chris Jordan has been diligently adding to his consciousness-raising series Running the Numbers, which puts statistics about consumerism into perspective by capturing them visually. When we covered the ...
A few magazines I’ve discovered (and in some cases liked) last month
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffI've often heard the statement "Oh! but you're a blogger you must find magazines old-fashioned!" No, actually I don't. I love mags, I love paper and beautiful graphics. I like adding notes in the margins and ...
Anton Kannemeyer - The Alphabet of Democracy
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffWhite Nightmare (Sedan Chair), 2008 Yesterday i arrived in Manhattan just on time to see the last hour of Anton Kannemeyer's solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery. The title, The Haunt of Fears, comes from the 1950s ...
The Chinese Far West
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffJust spent 3 days in Rome to check out FotoGrafia, the 7th edition of international festival of photography which runs until May 25th in several venues throughout the city. In a time when most photo festivals focus ...
The Chinese Far West
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Arts, Green News | Comments OffJust spent 3 days in Rome to check out FotoGrafia, the 7th edition of international festival of photography which runs until May 25th in several venues throughout the city. In a time when most photo festivals focus ...