On playing with the future
While researching Serious Games for your latest intervention in the media world you found Climate Challenge. You decided to share it. ..and here’s what Wikipedia’s got to say about the game: Climate Challenge is a Flash-based global warming game produced by the BBC and developed by Red Redemption. Players manage the economy and resources of […]
In the mean time in Sydney..
Here’s a video about an initiative happening in Sydney right now. Th idea originated in Melbourne, but this should take nothing away from the effort and enthusiasm of this gorup of perma-wizard. Check their website here. What is a permablitz? A permablitz is a permaculture-inspired backyard, frontyard or community makeover where people come together to […]
On gardens as protest
An interesting article from Adrienne Skye Roberts was brought to my attention, about the thesis project of a Design student from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She was instrumental in developing a garden in a forgotten part of the urban landscape, with the aim of addressing and understanding the methodologies of dissent […]
on taking pictures of your hand
Two years ago you took a picture of your hand, a tired and sore one, on the train that got you out of Venice, after installing the australian pavillion for the Biennale di Venezia. This year you did it again. Here’s both of them: So, you should spill out now what the biennale di venezia […]
On passing on someone elses writings
Working in Venice at the moment, assisting Cordeiro+Healy in their contribution to the Biennale. In the occasional spare time you go around looking for ancient trees and secret gardens. In the mean time this article was suggested by Lucas: Becoming native to this large place All around the countryside, growers of various nationalities have been […]
Spinning art into a fine thread
The story goes Leipzig had the biggest cotton-spinning plant of continental Europe. At the time 4,000 people worked in a 10 hectares complex which included worker’s homes, allotment gardens and the factory’s kindegarten. After the fall of DDR the factories were abandoned and left unattended. Tjhe ownership changed from state to a private consortium who […]
On setting up Bio-art
“No please, don’t refer to us as environmental artists”, Caretto-Spagna said in one of the many exchanges we had in the past 6 weeks. You worked with them in a mentorship program in Cambiano, Italy, getting ready a major new work for a curated group show for the Strozzina, Firenze, Green Platform. When you were […]
On Milano anarchists
This is the year Milano celebrate their avant-garde, the Futurists. The ‘rising city’ does so presenting a flamboyant selection of events and exhibitions dedicated to the centenary of this ‘rebellious, visionary avant-garde movement.’ You went to see it, spent the day in the fast-paced northern Italian centre, famous for its fashion hothouses, and on the […]
love the hackers
Hopefully this is going to work. This site was hacked back in March, on the 23rd, and promptly Mr Google banned it from view adding a splash page which warned anyone dropping-by of the dangers hidden behind the code. was the work of a certain 1dt.w0lf, a certain coder who likes to leave his name […]
on keeping track of it all
Sitting at Charles De Gaulle Airport, Paris. The flight to Torino, your final destination is 5 hours away. Plenty of time to kill. You’re always nervous when you transfer at this airport, since when you were here once with plenty of time to waist, and still managed to loose your flight. You had a window […]
