The question of food is central to the issue of sustainability - it is literally what sustains us on a day to day basis, but food production contributes 30% of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. 30% of the world's population is malnourished and another 30% is obese. Food production uses 70%... Continue Reading →
Near Now launch Internet of Growing Things Commission
Thanks to James Brady for sharing this, Near Now are delighted to announce the launch of Internet of Growing Things, a collaborative research opportunity for two individual UK based practitioners to develop new work focused on food and future agri-cultures. Deadline Monday 11 November 2013 Near Now launch Internet of Growing Things Commission - Near... Continue Reading →
How did vast heaps of industrial waste become the pride of a community? | Ian Jack | The Guardian
Ian Jack's comment in yesterday's Guardian How did vast heaps of industrial waste become the pride of a community? | Ian Jack | Comment is free | The Guardian on the role of industrial spoil heaps in the Scottish landscape is interesting for the history as well as for an error, an omission and an elision. Jack... Continue Reading →
Trash Talk: The Department of Sanitation’s Artist in Residence Is a Real Survivor
"Last week, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who is the first and, to date, only artist in residence in the history of the New York City Department of Sanitation (a title she has held since 1977), was speaking at the Brooklyn Museum’s daily staff roll call. She told the museum’s crew of maintenance workers—among them window washers,... Continue Reading →
The High Water Line: The New Yorker
In 2007 the artist Eve Mosher, interested in climate change, followed the 10ft elevation above sea level around Brooklyn and then Manhattan. She called the work High Water Line. She used one of those push along carts that are used to mark football, baseball, rugby and other pitches with chalk (in the US called a... Continue Reading →
A bright beacon in the dark winter months
Heliotrope is a 12 minute audio and light experience about the seasons. It has been created by a team of artists, designers and scientists, working together to explore the impact of light on minds and bodies. It's taking place in the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens on four days at the end of November 2012... Continue Reading →
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