Currently on view at the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries is an exhibition by artist/biologist Brandon Ballengée, co-organized by Amy Lipton of ecoartspace. The exhibition titled Ghosts of the Gulf includes several stark and brilliantly colorful images of marine species collected in the Gulf of Mexico directly following the deadly 2010 Deep Water Horizons (DWH) oil spill disaster. Ballengée’s artistic… Continue reading “Ghosts of the Gulf” by Brandon Ballengée
Tag: New York
2014 Fuller Challenge Finalists Announced
September 2014, New York City – The Buckminster Fuller Institute is pleased to announce the Finalists for the 2014 Fuller Challenge. Now in its 7th cycle, The Fuller Challenge invites designers, architects, activists, entrepreneurs, artists, planners and scientists, from all over the world to submit their game-changing solutions to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. A… Continue reading 2014 Fuller Challenge Finalists Announced
Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics
Symposium + Film Series September 19–21, 2014, New York A three-day event gathering together artists, scholars and curators examining the mediated and aesthetic dimensions of human-made infrastructures that shape almost every aspect of modern life. Exploring data centers, oil pipelines, securitized border zones, waste treatment plants and more, 12 presentations and 17 films ask the… Continue reading Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics
Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)
Reposted from http://www.toolsforaction.net/carbon-bomb-blows-up-near-west-point/ This september, a 30-foot carbon bomb blew up in the airspace over the Hudson River in front of West Point Military Academy. An inflatable bomb pressurized with carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen contained in outer shell of silver radiant barrier foil, the carbon bomb was manufactured as part of a research program… Continue reading Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)
CONNECTING THE DOTS: AN INTERVIEW WITH BONNIE ORA SHERK – JUDY DRUMMOND
Judy Drummond’s discussion with Bonnie Ora Sherk, founder of The Farm and A Living Library about watersheds and creation of ecosystems in San Francisco and New York, living libraries of their existence, climate change, synchronicity. Find the talk here.
WATERWASH Welcomes
Sunday, June 22nd at 12 noon is the opening celebration of five inClimate events of WATERWASH Welcomes. Join ecological artist Lillian Ball for a picnic discussion about the WATERWASH project (2010-2014) and how its native wetland plants mitigate increased storm water pollution. A limited number of participants can also enjoy a rowboat ride with Rocking the Boat program assistants to hear… Continue reading WATERWASH Welcomes
FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action
An exhibition of upstate/downstate NY artists who work with food and agriculture – Curated by Amy Lipton (ecoartspace) Smack Mellon – 92 Plymouth Street at Washington – Brooklyn, NY 11201 June 7 to July 27, 2014 Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 5pm-8pm Artists: Joan Bankemper/Black Meadow Barn; Joy Garnett; Habitat For Artists Collective (Simon Draper, Michael Asbill, Carmen Acuna,… Continue reading FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action
FREE RIVER ZONE – NYC Events
April 29, 2014, 6pm: Exhibition opening Free River Zones: An artistic inquiry with Ravi Agarwal, Bob Braine, David Brooks, Till Krause, Marie Lorenz, and Hilmar Schäfer Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 5 East 3rd Street New York, NY 10003 Parallel exhibition opening, April 29, 7pm: Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas including Mark Dion’s… Continue reading FREE RIVER ZONE – NYC Events
Making Sense : Fifth Annual Colloquium
July 12, 2013, ‘The Six Senses of Art’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Making Sense” is a collective of artists and thinkers who assemble to create a vital, international forum that crosses between modes of thinking and doing. The project engages both the senses and the intellect and embraces a range of different perspectives and… Continue reading Making Sense : Fifth Annual Colloquium
La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
June 21 – 23, 2013, Jennifer Monson & friends/NY/Urbana, New York La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival which takes place in different venues and features emerging and seasoned choreographers, reflects La MaMa’s longstanding mission to performance that transcends politics and unifies cultures. For this occasion, Jennifer Monson & friends/NY/Urbana will perform at La MaMa experimental Theatre… Continue reading La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
