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Public art projects that double as renewable energy sources
Public art projects that double as renewable energy sources
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
Two Pittsburgh artists are encouraging cities around the world to install public art structures designed to generate power while educating viewers about renewable energy.
Ai WeiWei
Ai WeiWei
Trees, et al (Cambridge Exhibit)
Five shadowy, ominous, twisted wooden sculptures loomed over the neo-Classical backdrop of the Downing College Chapel in Cambridge, England. Ai Weiwei came to town — and he brought his “Trees” (and “Cubes”) with him.
Aquarium Artwork Brings Home the Threat of Climate Change
Aquarium Artwork Brings Home the Threat of Climate Change
Artist Lars Jan, who lives in Los Angeles, placed an aquarium in a Miami plaza in which performers must struggle to do everyday tasks — dancing, drinking coffee, reading a newspaper — as water floods the enclosed space and then drains away.
Theo Jansen’s Lumbering Life-Forms Arrive in America
Theo Jansen’s Lumbering Life-Forms Arrive in America
On a blustery October afternoon, on a gently raised hill above Ypenburg, the Netherlands, roughly halfway between The Hague and Delft, the 66-year-old once-aspiring physicist Theo Jansen and several assistants busily prepared to launch an odd sort of species invasion. In a few weeks, Jansen’s strandbeests — the huge self-propelled beach-striding contraptions that Jansen has spent the better part of the past quarter-century conceiving, evolving and constructing from out of ever more ambitious concatenations of lightweight yellow PVC tubing and spiny white sails — would be strutting their improbably lifelike stuff up and down Miami Beach at Art Basel, to the drop-jawed amazement of all.
Why I left the Paris Climate Summit with an Activist Tattoo
Why I left the Paris Climate Summit with an Activist Tattoo
The tattoo is three numbers and a symbol: "355<" in 25-point font, styled as if from a typewriter. It's my commitment to the people of the climate movement, to listening to and sharing their stories of climate justice.
http://mashable.com/2016/01/10/paris-climate-summit-tattoo/#05ERK19tdEqS
Jason deCaires Taylor/ The Rising Tide
Jason deCaires Taylor/ The Rising Tide
Visiting deCaires Taylor’s underwater museums allows visitors the opportunity to broaden their minds and educate themselves on fields that are outside their daily lives, and experience samples of worlds beyond their own in a safe and non-destructive manner. For marine ecologies, this is a significant benefit as they are an environment that most people will only experience briefly while holidaying, if at all.
http://www.underwatersculpture.com/sculptures/overview/
Support by Lorenzo Quinn, (Venice Biennale 2017)
Support by Lorenzo Quinn, (Venice Biennale 2017)
Italy's famed city of Venice has grappled with flooding and encroaching waters since the Middle Ages. But as global warming speeds up sea level rise, the charming destination is steadily slipping underwater.
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