Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Apr 12, 2010, 1:59 pm
I haven't been posting on the Eco Art Blog recently; as I've said before, others are doing a better job at that than I have the time for. Also, the end of grad school has piled on a lot of time-consuming activities, like mounting a thesis show. But I am happy to announce a new project I'm working on...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 29, 2009, 10:14 am
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Nov 27, 2009, 6:31 pm
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Nov 11, 2009, 1:02 pm
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Jul 7, 2009, 1:46 am
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Jun 11, 2009, 1:24 am
Amsterdam-based artist and grad student Sander Veenhof has come up with an interactive and innovative way to spread the word on his name: A plant where the light only switches on when someone blogs, twitters or does a google search for his name. The project is an attempt to grow a "graduation bouque...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Miami-based artist Xavier Cortada will present his artwork Native Flags at the Verge Miami Art Fair Dec. 3–6. The goal of the project is reforestation and awareness of global warming and its impact on political jostling for control of the Northwest Passage. Cortada planted his green flag at the No...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
{UNM Land Arts students at the Spiral Jetty.} An interview I did about the new Art and Ecology program at University of New Mexico is on the Art 21 blog. The interview is part of the blog's Flash Points series focusing on art and the natural world.
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Please join me this Saturday, Nov. 14 for the Mammut Magazine launch. We'll have readings, sloth bear t-shirt drawings and other activities from 11 am til about 1 or 2 pm.We'll be at the picnic tables in front of the Page Museum at 5801 Wilshire Blvd, 90036. MAMMUT #3 is about megafauna—a term tha...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Just in from the LA Urban Rangers mailing list: More Malibu Beach Safaris this summer. I wrote about going on one of these safaris last year, and highly recommend it. Here's the info: ==================== The Los Angeles Urban Rangers announce: MALIBU PUBLIC BEACHES SAFARIS--SUMMER 2009 Tired of Zum...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I've received a few emails alerting me that I had information wrong in my previous post on Chapman Kelley's piece, Chicago Wildflower Works. Here's a shot from 1992, taken well before the park was altered by the city of Chicago. The image was provided by the artist. And the shot I used in my previou...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
{Chapman Kelley's wildflower park in Chicago. I think this is a before shot? Correction: This is the shot after the piece was altered.} ...or at least the courts say so. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what is going on here, mostly because I haven't seen before and after shots, but artist ...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The Tree Museum, a project celebrating 100 trees and the stories of 100 people, will be up this summer in the Bronx to commemorate the 100th anniversary of The Grand Concourse, a boulevard in that neighborhood. Created by artist Katie Holten, you can read all about it at treemuseum.org or in the nyt...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Are we heading into an era of a homogonized plant and animal communities, brought on by our global economy that moves everything around, whether it is goods, animals or bacteria and fungus? In an article titled The Sixth Extinction in the May 25, 2009 issue of The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert write...
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Matthias M. posted an article on Eco Art Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
{An installation being constructed by the University of New Mexico art and ecology students.} The University of New Mexico has a BFA and MFA program in art and ecology. I'm not sure when it started, but from their website, it seems that the program builds on previous eco-art classes and the universi...
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