Nuage Vert “Green Cloud” Illuminates Emissions
We are seeing some significant achievements in environmental change — and we hope that with public art works like this large-scale environmental art installation by French art duo HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiki Hansen) that greater eco-consciousness will characterize 2009. Last February, HeHe installed a Nuage Vert, or “Green Cloud”, across the skies of Helsinki. The installation used laser tracking to project a green illumination onto the chimney emissions of the Salmisaari power plant. The illumination adjusts its shape and size to the contours of the vapor, reflecting the electrical consumption of residents in Ruoholahti and neighboring Lauttasaari. During the week long installation, local residents were asked to consume less, unplug their electrical appliances, and then watch the green cloud grow! In May 2008, Nuage Vert was awarded the 01SJ Green Prix for Environmental Art at the second edition of 01SJ Festival in San Jose. + Nuage Vert+ HeHe+ Core77.com+ WorldChanging.com
Cultivating an Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Awareness
by Shai Zakai, Israeli Forum for Ecological Art (2002) Developing Environmental Awareness through Art Shai Zakai, Israeli Forum for Ecological Art Part of a report made at the World Summit as part of Shadow Report to the Government of Israel's Assessment of Progress in Implementing Agenda 21, written by the Environmental and Social NGO's, Israel 2002. Introduction The following chapter responds to the governmental report's section on "Environmental Education and Promoting Public Awareness," by examining the role of the arts in this area, and in seeking ways to incorporate Israeli artists in efforts to solve environmental problems. - Does an interdisciplinary framework for cooperation truly exist, as the governmental report claims? Our argument, that the artist's role should be promoted and adopted as a means toward environmental progress, introduces possibilities that are not yet imagined in current environmental policy in Israel. The current situation The environment has no face. Background
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In one sense, all artists seek to change the world. To make things, even to propose ideas, is intrinsically a hopeful act. The most cynical artist, describing the least attractive alternative to the unmediated world, harbors at least a feeble hope that his dark view will prompt some transformation—whether of consciousness or of substance—that will save us all. Yet, over the last 200 years, the artist has largely given up the role of builder, in favor of metaphor and critical analysis. And so it is remarkable that in one arena, at least, there are artists who have resisted the passive role of commentator, pursuing an active strategy that requires the production of concrete, positive change in the natural environment. Any thoughtful person involved in the arts must balance his poetic concerns against the weight of Real World need. Any work as complex as this project is the product of many hands. Charles Desmarais Alice & Harris Weston Director Contemporary Arts Center
Architecture of Consequence
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