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Radio Interview with WSKY/WKTK in Gainesville
I talked briefly with Doug Clifford of WSKY in Gainesville, FL, in advance of my talk this Friday at The Thomas Center.
Here is the audio of the WSKY interview.
Upcoming Talk in Gainesville, FL
CITY OF GAINESVILLE
Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs
RELEASE DATE: March 16, 2012
Photographer of 365 EPA Superfund Sites to Speak at the Historic Thomas Center
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs announces a lecture by New York media artist Brooke Singer on Friday March 30 at 6 p.m. in the Thomas Center Long Gallery. Recognized for her work photographing 365 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites from outside New York City to Hawaii, Singer will speak on Alternative Histories: Mapping Toxic Legacy and Tracking Superfund.
This program accompanies the Thomas Center Main Gallery’s powerful current exhibition Region4: Transformation Through Imagination, which features works by 17 artists who seek to transform the reality of the local Cabot/Koppers EPA Superfund site into images that convey both the history of the issue and the possibilities for restoration and positive change. The exhibition was organized by the Superfund Art Project in collaboration with Protect Gainesville Citizens and runs through Saturday, April 28. Along with related programming, it is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
The Speaker:
Brooke Singer is currently Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York. Her work blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practices. She has exhibited at the Warhol Museum of Art, The Banff Centre, Neuberger Museum of Art, MoMA/PS1, Diverseworks, Exit Art, FILE Electronic Festival, Sonar Music and Multimedia Festival, The Whitney Artport, among others.
Beautiful Trouble Book Launch PARTY
April 5th celebrate Beautiful Trouble at PowerHouse Books.
Here is the info: http://blog.beautifultrouble.org/2012/03/21/and-now-its-time-to-party/
Beautiful Trouble
I am very excited to be part of this book, “Beautiful Trouble.” It arrives in February. Order your advanced copy today! Here is some more info:
From Cairo to cyberspace, from Main Street to Wall Street, today’s social movements have a creative new edge that’s blurring the boundaries between artist and activist, hacker and dreamer. But the principles that make for successful creative action rarely get hashed out or written down. Until now.
Beautiful Trouble brings together ten grassroots groups and dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best practices into a toolbox for creative action.
Beautiful Trouble puts the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest into the hands of the next generation of change-makers.
Atlas of Radical Cartography
Browsing through the bookstore at the Museo Reina Sofia, look what I found! An Atlas for Radical Cartography was nestled in between an old postcard book and a book about urbanism. An Atlas has had a great run (I have a map included in the collection).
Close Up of Items in the Matadero Installation
We are working on the web site for the project Excedents/Excess. In the meanwhile, I will post images from our install at Matadero.
Close-up of Food Waste in NYC Map (Spanish version)
The Collaborators (video interview)
Excedentes/Excess Carrito
1. Tanks for Chemical Waste
2. Excedentes/Excess Carrito, Collecting Discarded Food Near the San Fernando Market
3. Carrito in Lavapies, Madrid, Re-Distributing Food Waste
Opening Tonight!
http://www.mataderomadrid.org/ficha/995/el-ranchito.html
And this announces our residency.
Ricardo Explaining our Research to Journalist at Opening
(and, here is the article from that interview)
Off to Madrid for Residency at Matadero!
Ricardo and I are heading to Madrid this week to begin production on a new project, Excedentes/Excess. This is a commissioned work by Matadero in collaboration with Madrid-based artist, Jose Luis Bongore, and Beatriz Marcos. We have been conducting research in NYC and Madrid simultaneously over the last few months on the topic of urban food waste. And now we are coming together to prototype and test some ideas.
Here are some videos from interviews.
And a few images from our dumpster dive last week in Brooklyn:
