education * research and development* artistic creation/ production * presentation and public programs

SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH GROUPFOOD AND TECHNOLOGYWWW.EYEBEAM.ORG/RESEARCH/SUSTAINABILITYWWW.EYEBEAM.ORG/EVENTS/FEEDBACK

Our goals are to improve the internal practices, physical infrastructure and materials used at Eyebeam to create a lab for workable sustainable solutions, to educate ourselves and the public through programs and exhibitions, and to facilitate the creation of sustainability-related projects at and beyond Eyebeam.

SHARECROPPERWWW.SHARECROPPERART.ORG

LEAH GAUTIER

This is a personal journey exploring agricultural plant matter and wild edibles as sculptural material, community building through growing and cooking food, re-imagining land use, and re-incorporating agrarian sensibilities and simplicity into modern life.

Re-imagining land use to promote rare and endangered heirloom vegetable and herb growth.

- Micro-Farm concept- Organic Methods- Public Involvement- Volunteering- Discussions- Events- Cooking Performances

VIDEO: SHARECROPPER NY DOCUMENTARY PT.1

WINDOWFARMSWWW.WINDOWFARMS.ORG

BRITTA RILEY & REBECCA BRAY

- Goal is to initiate crowdsourced innovation with original concept: utilizing vertical window space to produce semi-sustainable food source. Initiate participants innovation and design of personal microenvironments, design sharing, rediscovering their own capacity to innovate, and playing an active role in the green revolution.

- Uses Web 2.0 Crowdsourcing and R&D-I-Y (Research and develop it yourself) to initiate design innovation, implementation, and free information sharing.

VIDEO: COOL HUNTING WINDOW FARMS

TRUCK FARMSWWW.WICKEDELICATE.COM

VIDEO: TRUCK FARMS TEASER

- Both an actual Truck Farm and an ongoing documentary on the subject, the Truck Farm project attempts to portray the bigger picture of the urban food production movement

- From the creators of King Corn, and The Greening of Southie, Truck Farm is an online, weekly documentary highlighting the response and the overarching concepts of the project.

AMY FRANCESCHINIWWW.FUTUREFARMERS.COM

- Created Futurefarmers in 1995

- International, collaborative effort between various artists

- Utilizes new media and public space with interest in gardening, food, social change, and technology.

- Most work shares core values:

- Interaction- Play & Accessibility- Visualization of Abstract Ideas- Local- Power of Connection

VIDEO: AMY ON VICTORY GARDENS

FREE FARM FEEDWWW.FREEFARMFEED.ORG

ANDREA POLLI, EVE SIBLEY,& RYAN ROMERO

- Automated twitter feed of weather conditions from various stations around the world

- Designed to provide instant local weather updates for urban farmers and gardeners

- Each station updates once a day and posts warning messages if there are bad conditions.

RE:FARM THE CITYWWW.REFARMTHECITY.ORG

- Works with widely available materials to use modern software and technology to manage urban food production

- Utilises free or low-cost hardware and software, along with as many recycled materials as possible

- Aims to build re-creatable, manageable plant management systems with attention to biodiversity, native species, suited varieties, beneficial species relationships, energy consumption, and time and monetary input.

VIDEO: SCARECROW HUMIDITY SENSORS

An early pioneers of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art.

In 1982, she carried out what has become one of the best-known environmental art projects when she planted a two-acre field of wheat in a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan. Wheatfield -- A Confrontation, the artwork yielded 1,000 lbs. of wheat in the middle of New York City to comment on "human values and misplaced priorities". The harvested grain then traveled to 28 cities worldwide in "The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger" and was symbolically planted around the globe.

AGNES DENES

Not A Cornfield was a transformation of a 32 acre industrial brownfield in the historic center of Los Angeles into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. This temporary project is located just North of Chinatown and South of Lincoln Heights on a large stretch of land well known as The Cornfield."

With the close of the project, the artists established a permanent research space in Los Angeles.

WWW.FARMLAB.ORG

NOT A CORNFIELDLauren BonWWW.NOTACORNFIELD.COM

VIDEO: Ali&Cia-Otras Fagias

- Food-based exhibitions since the 1970s

- Inspiration drawn from the universal experience of eating.

- From photography to edible self-portraits to edible cities, Rios has brought the importance of food to the attention of numbers of people.

- Pieces include: Organoleptic Deconstruction in Three Movements, La Cocinera, Chez Picasso, Afternoon Picnic with a Techno-Geisha, Australianas Mediterraneas, Fair of the Five Senses, Edible Hats, Temperate Menu, Edible Library, The World of Fruit and Globalisation, Iconophagy, Urbanophagy, Edible Tongues, and Eat the Wall.

ALICIA RIOSWWW.ALICIA-RIOS.COM

MATTHEW NGUI

- Exhibited works internationally, including the Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, the Venice Biennale in Italy, and the Gwangju Biennale in Korea.

- Concerned with identity and culture

- You can order and eat char kwey teow and You can order and eat delicious poh-piah amongst other things allow the viewer to speak to Ngui through a series of pipes, while he responds from another room through text on a screen. The viewer is encouraged to order and eat, and afterwards the used plates are on display.

RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA

- Installations often include stages or spaces for meals, cooking, reading, and music.

- In many cases, he prepares food for viewers himself, creating a social interaction that is unusual in conventional gallery spaces.

SHU LEA CHEANG

- Works with a variety of mediums, including net-based installations, social interface, and film production.

- Drive by Dining (2002) Wifi devices were placed throughout a diner space and a camera on a crane took pictures of a dinner party which were streamed online.

- Garlic= Rich-Air (2003) Ground and web-based trading based on a post economic-collapse 2030 society which uses garlic as a form of currency.

NATALIE JEREMIJENKOWWW.ENVIRONMENTALHEALTHCLINIC.NET

- Experimental design (xDesign) with emphasis on biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, precision engineering, and visual art.

- Focuses on socio-techincal change and pressing environmental issues.

Projects Include: Environmental Health Clinic, XEROX PARC, ZOOZ: Exploring Reciprocity in the Zoo, Amphibious Architecture, D4PA: Designed 4 Political Action, OOZ, HowStuffIsMade, Feral Robots, BIT Lane, Biotech Hobbyist

VIDEO: CROSS SPECIES DINNER

FREE RANGE GRAINWWW.CRITICAL-ART.NET/FRG.HTML

- Tested food products for genetically modified materials.

- Initiated discourse on biotechnology and public information.

- Provided insight on the current regulations on food modification and international trade.

MATTHEW MOOREWWW.URBANPLOUGH.COM

- Last of four generations a family farm outside of Phoenix, AZ on the brink of suburban development.

- Explores similarities between commercial agriculture and suburban development, as well as personal identity as it is dictated by his family's land and history.

- looks at these dilemmas which reveal the impact of the American dream on our society and the land as we transition toward a post agrarian nation.

MILK PROJECT WWW.MILKPROJECT.NETESTHER POLAK

NOMADIC MILKWWW.NOMADICMILK.NETESTHER POLAK AND EDWIN DERTIEN

- Follows dairy transporters and Fulani nomadic herdsmen in Nigeria, tracking both their routes with GPS.

- Creates a colorful sand drawing on the ground, visualizing the variety of dairy transports that take place throughout Nigeria.

- GPS technology to track the movement of milk from Latvian farmers to consumers (turning into cheese somewhere in between) throughout Europe.

- GPS devices were distributed to different participants, and their stories and travels are documented on-line.

KATE RICH

- Created Feral TradeWWW.FERALTRADE.ORG

- Public experiment using social networks to trade goods internationally.

- Co-Founded BIT: Bureau of Inverse Technology

URBAN EDIBLESWWW.URBANEDIBLES.ORG

VIDEO: URBAN EDIBLES ON KGW NEWS

- Community-based mapping project providing free, natural found food sources throughout each target city.

- Uses Google MyMaps to allow anyone with a free Google account to find and educate others of safe, local found food sources (such as overhanging fruit trees, food shrubs, etc.).

- Available in Portland, OR, Boulder, CO, and Amsterdam, while Los Angeles and the Santa Clara Valley have similar found food maps through other organizations.

FoAMWWW.FO.AM/GREENING

- Groworld Initiative

- International pool of innovators working to tackle complex challenges in our cultural, technological, and ecological environments using ethically and sustainable practices.- Luminous Green Series is an annual gathering aimed at enriching public debate around environmental sustainability, ethical living and eco-technology.

ANDES SPROUTS SOCIETYWWW.ANDESSPROUTSSOCIETY.US

- Founded by Shu Lea Cheang, DeeDee Halleck, and Madalyn Warren

- Community of artists, scientists, and architects with an ongoing exchange of knowledge and labor within urban gardening, field farming, sustainability, and emergent media exploration.

- Property is 21 acre farm in Delaware County, NY

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