This is the air we breathe

Provides instant feedback on our actions in the city. By using a technique for printing called ‘flock’ a dirt absorbing text or pattern can be printed on a less dirt absorbing surface and create a slow but direct response on pollution. People passing every day by car will be reminded of how they effect the urban environment.
In the city we are used to being approached by information from almost all directions. The commercialised urban environment consists of messages, constantly fighting for our attention, loud and/or with rapidly moving images. This is the air we breathe … uses another method in order to communicate. It demands time from the receiver and it does not deliver a straight answer.

more work by:
Jenny Bergstrom

Climate Change: top offenders

Links to the Guardian environment website. Includes a world chart of the worst offenders for CO2 emmissions. Read about the Bali Conference and other issues.

Guardian Main Page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment

World Map: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2221626,00.html

Bali Conference: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bali

THE BUSINESS OF GREEN MEDIA CONFERENCE

One of the most important issues facing the graphic communication** industry today is sustainability. This full day event will focus on what the graphic communication industry is doing, and can do, to take a leadership role in addressing issues related to sustainable* business practices. “The Business of Green Media,” will bring together thought leaders on the production of sustainable media and the associated business challenges and opportunities that face the graphic arts community and those involved in media production.

24 January 2008. Cal Poly State University. San Luis Obispo, California

Another aspect for the endgame.Conference website

David's Talks available as Podcasts

Endgame Issues (talk 2) and Endgame Strategies (talk 3) have been edited as podcasts or for viewing on screen. Please ask Richard if you would like to download a copy.

Skyglow

By David Cross

This photograph comes from the UK Campaign for Dark Skies. Taken with a super wide angle lens on a clear night, it shows the glow of light reflected off moisture and pollution in the atmosphere over Southern England.
As a key point of connection between contemporary visual culture and industrial consumerism, electric light is so widespread that it has the familiar effect of an ideology.
The detractors of environmentalism have often tried to associate the movement’s aims with poverty or loss. Just as the idea of light carries connotations of reason and understanding, the idea of darkness is linked to ignorance and superstition. Yet such dichotomies are misleading, and may be redundant. Whether we view the stars with the gaze of an astronomer or astrologer, the accidental illumination of the night sky is the result of an excess that is obscuring our wider vision.

Marianne Krogh Jensen on Super-ecology

Danish curator Marianne Krogh Jensen wrote an very rich text about the ambivalence of Nature and Culture and also their sometime contradictory relationship. Interesting points being made here, in direct relation to Olafur Eliasson's work.

download pdf from the following page:

http://www.olafureliasson.net/publ_text/texts.html

It's the 6th one from the top. Haven't read any of the other ones but I'm sure some of the texts have strong relevance to EndGame.

Sharing a bit of land...

In brief "The Land" is a large-scale collaborative and transdisciplinary project that was begun by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in 1998, and is taking place in Sanpatong, near Chiang May, Thailand. It sees itself as a laboratory for self-sustainable development, and is a place where new models for living are being tested out.

Tiravanija explains that "The Land" is a merging of ideas by different artists to cultivate a place of and for social engagement. It's development over the years has been quite unpredictable and quite organic... moving somewhere between process, object, structure, and exchange. Underlining "The Land" is the idea of a self-imposed Utopia, one that strives to be feasible, practical and subjective, rather than being rooted in "beliefs on how others should live"...