http://shanebrennan.net/climate A weblog exhibition: Connecting art, climate change and networked culture Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:12:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New work made for New Climates Permalink 800 Steps Apart is a video triptych by Brooke Singer and Brian Rigney Hubbard that compares two opposing protocols endorsed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to handle cleanup in Lower Manhattan post-9/11. A Russian émigré, living at 300 Albany Street, was told by the ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/05/08/800-steps-apart-2007-by-brooke-singer-and-brian-rigney-hubbard/ New work made for New Climates Launch Project in a New Window States is a set of 200 words drawn from scientific and corporate language. Organized into separate, randomly shuffled columns, these word sets combine to produce over 6.2 million potential phrases (or "states") suggestive ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/18/states-2007-by-anthony-discenza/ New work made for New Climates Permalink "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." – Albert Einstein According to a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), cows, pigs, sheep and poultry are among the ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/18/methane-2007-by-michael-alstad/ New work made for New Climates Permalink This work is similar to some video pieces I made in the late 80s, on secrecy and the CIA, the obliteration of nature, and the misfiring of well-intended efforts. I was angry then, and I'm still angry now. The issues have changed a little, but ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/16/national-agenda-2007-by-gail-wight/ New work made for New Climates Permalink (click to view larger size) How can we make sense of the climate change predictions in the news? What does a seven degree temperature rise in the Arctic really mean? How do we absorb scientific information into our everyday lives? The news headlines that came up ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/15/rising-north-2007-by-jane-d-marsching/ A New Component of Personal Kyoto (2005-6) View Full-Size Map More than anything else, Personal Kyoto is an information project that aims to give users feedback on their individual level of electric use. The idea stems from the realization that few of us have any idea of what our electric use ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/13/personal-kyoto-by-ben-engebreth/ Clockwise from top left: stills from videos by Mary Mattingly, Thomson & Craighead, Peter Eramian and Lisa Young If this is your first visit to New Climates, welcome to the site. If you are a frequenter or subscriber, then you’ve probably been observing the exhibition’s evolution over the past several weeks, ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/01/new-climates-a-mid-launch-status-report/ New work made for New Climates Permalink Ecosystems are perpetually involved in a complex dance at various spatial and temporal scales. Outsiders of the environmental sciences tend to view nature or our natural landscapes very much like a photograph, a still shot, but nature is a moving picture show. – Mat Trumbull As our climate changes, will ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/04/01/glacial-lakes-hyacinths-2007-by-thieving-magpie/ Permalink Wilderness Trouble V1.0 was inspired by William Cronon’s article entitled “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature.” In this article, which was critical to ecocriticism’s recent shift from deep to social ecological models, Cronon argues that the concept of “wilderness” has no basis in nature but ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/31/wilderness-trouble-v10-2007-by-cary-peppermint-and-christine-nadir/ New work made for New Climates Permalink Pangaea Ultima follows a field reporter on a tour across newly demarcated P.U. as she describes the recent environmental and cultural changes. Through its present exhibition, P.U. casts an illusory glance at a yesterworld, with mechanical trees reminding us of the once natural forests. In ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/29/pangaea-ultima-2007-by-mary-mattingly/ New work made for New Climates Permalink Higher-res version During the calendar year 2001, I took a photograph of the sky each morning when I awoke. The resulting 365 photographs softly fade into one another, collapsing 12 months of time into a 12 minute video. The subtle relationships between the varied blue skies ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/13/calendar-2007-by-lisa-young/ New work made for New Climates Roadside Garden Socal View webpage Download the real-time application (stuffed archive .sit) Mac OSX: socal.application.macosx.sit Windows:socal.application.windows.sit Linux: socal.application.linux.sit Source code: roadside garden socal Built with Processing Roadside Garden Socal is a desktop application that downloads and visualizes daily amounts of O3 (ozone) and NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) in the atmosphere in Southern Californiain the ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/12/roadside-garden-socal-and-roadside-garden-taipei-2007-by-andrea-polli/ New work made for New Climates Permalink Lower-res version In Sunrise the scene is set with a dubious, yet beautiful, night time shot of the cityscape of Nicosia, Cyprus. The lights of the city can be seen glimmering in the horizon whilst the foreground is lit using green and red artificial lighting. Gradually, ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/12/sunrise-2007-by-peter-eramian/ New work made for New Climates Permalink Lower-res version Line of 32 by Joe Milutis presents the search for cold weather as a meandering, emotive narrative. Combining found footage from the Web, still images and otherworldly audio-visual recordings of Lake Michigan, the video creates a sense of longing for the seasonal temperature ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/03/01/line-of-32-2007-by-joe-milutis/ New work made for New Climates Permalink In London, Thomson and Craighead appropriate and recontextualize a local news broadcast, offering a glimpse into a future ravaged by climate change. London presents a time when the effects of climate change are no longer speculation, but undeniably real. Is this world a distant fiction, ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/02/18/london-by-thomson-craighead/ Permalink The Queensbridge Wind Power Project presents a vision of a future when meeting energy production needs can actually enhance the beauty of a city, investigating how clean, renewable wind power might be integrated into the landmark architecture of the Queensboro Bridge. – Andrea Polli http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/01/20/the-queensbridge-wind-power-project-2004-by-andrea-polli/ Permalink According to NASA climate scientists, a dramatic warming trend has been experienced by the Arctic over the last decade that may accelerate global climate change. N. is an artistic visualization and sonification (direct translation of data to sound) by Andrea Polli and Joe Gilmore presenting weather data modeled by Dr. ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/01/20/n-2005-by-andrea-polli/ Permalink Airlight is the name given to a visible white smog caused by the illumination of fine dust particles in the air. Airlight Taipei is a networked real-time sound and visual installation using updated data from an EPA air-quality monitoring station in central Taipei indicating various air pollutant levels including sulphur ... http://shanebrennan.net/climate/2007/01/20/airlight-taipei-2006-by-andrea-polli/