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Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons / The New School, New York       info
Space for Art and Industry, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York       info
HACKING KULMLAND at Main Square Pischelsdorf, A       info
NANO 2011, Academy of Science, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova       info
 
Klaus Schafler, GeoEngineering Project 2011: Hacking the Planet
HACKING THE PLANET, 2011

 

project context: Hacking the planet | Geo-Engineering


Global challenges and potential transformations - between chance and risk, fact and fiction:
What are the political and socio-economical implications, the questions of governance, ethics and philosophy?
Motivation, work and life of Geoengineering scientists who, not unlike artists, plan interventions into the world: What drives these people? Which concepts and ideas are they following? In which socio-political contexts are they researching and developing their projects and interventions?
How reflective are their approaches regarding implications on nature and society, governance and geopolitical context?
Planned art works: installation / fictive laboratory and interventions in public space, video-film, publication, lectures and discussions. Supported also by the art & science initiative of the Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (bm:ukk) and Kulturabteilung Land Steiermark

*Geo-Engineering includes large scale interventions to the globe and its climate system like artificial trees, cloud seeding, mirrors in the space etc.