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Recently: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
HACKING THE PLANET, 2011 project context: Hacking the planet | Geo-EngineeringGlobal 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. |
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