April 29 2009 | New A&E poetry commission

Poets Melanie Challenger and John Kinsella are creating a new online poetry work for the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre based on their decision to abandon long-haul flying for ethical reasons.
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darkSky at Art Chicago this weekend at ecoviz.org

darkSky 2009 is an interactive installation by Tiffany Holmes which presents a series of salvaged lamps that visitors are encouraged to turn on and off, and the resulting energy consumption is presented in real-time as an animation on a single plasma screen. This exhibit was recently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, [...]

MOCA Catalogue Sale!!!

My favorite part of a museum visit is always the bookstore and a recent visit to see Dan Graham at MOCA was no different. Only this time, we are all the beneficiaries of MOCA’s recent financial woes. They are having a huge sale on MOCA publications. I got the above five books for just over [...]

Emotional Appeal

Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink – there needs to be more promiscuity across different disciplines if there’s to be more fruitful solutions to environmental change. On Earth Day, Seed magazine published a well-toned article about economist Ben Ho, and suggested a need for joined-up thinking on climate change between behavioral economics (hence the reference to ‘Nudge’) [...]

The Environmental Health Clinic

Last month, Ian and I travelled to Houston for the Systems of Sustainability Seminar (SOS) hosted by the University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery.
Natalie Jeremijenko, of the Environmental Health Clinic, was a notable speaker. Natalie is an artist with a background in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision [...]

Jeremy Deller: how art “digs into public life”

We have had my brother-in-law staying Jeremy Deller’s latest project, It is What It Is. We have been working with Jeremy on the Bat House Project. Both works provide a mechanism, a vehicle (literally in the case of ‘It is What It Is’) to encourage debate and engagement with particular issues.
Dragging a wrecked car from [...]

Curating in a read/write culture

Jim Richardson, writing in The Art Newspaper, warns galleries and museums of the change that is inevitably coming to the art world. In and editorial “Facebook is more than a fad” he writes:
Social networks and blogs are the fastest growing online activities, according to a report published in March by research firm Nielsen Online. Almost [...]

Steve Lambert at Charlie James Gallery

{A billboard by Steve Lambert}

Chinatown had a coordinated Art Night last night, possibly as a response to my plea to reduce art driving (just kidding…). The best show was new advertising signs by Steve Lambert at Charlie James Gallery, including a massive sign with flashing lights declaring “Look Away.” The signs are just pure fun [...]

Fututuresonic | Amy Balkin wants readers

Artist Amy Balkin is looking for volunteers to help her at Futuresonic in May for a piece about climate change. For details see here.
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Rising Tide Conference REPORT

I was only able to attend one day of the three day conference last weekend in the Bay Area. Entitled Rising Tide, organized by Kim Anno, and jointly hosted by California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and Stanford University, there was a diverse mix of planning, art history, contemporary art, and design/technology. [...]

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