Transdiscourse 1: Mediated Environments

Cover......Page 1
MEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS\rCOLOUR PLATES......Page 2
ISBN 9783709102879......Page 34
TRANSDISCOURSE 1......Page 35
OUTLOOK: THE TRANSDISCOURSE SERIES......Page 36
Table of Contents\r......Page 39
Main Aims......Page 41
Mediated Architecture:......Page 42
ECO Artists and Local Living Conditions......Page 43
Art and Science correlations......Page 44
Conclusion......Page 45
Art and science today1 – a contrastive view......Page 47
Science as applied sciece......Page 48
An anaestherized world......Page 49
Communicating environmental issues......Page 50
Sccience as communicator: the exam of agriculture......Page 51
Art as communicator: the fascination of the techno-artefact......Page 52
Art liberated to explore and communicate the environment......Page 54
Climate change: the world as laboratory or as studio?......Page 55
Transdiscourse towards a future environment......Page 57
References......Page 58
Overview: From Eco-art to Eco-visualisation......Page 61
Nuage vert: The cloud that counted kilowatts......Page 62
STATIC (Sweden)......Page 66
Wattson/Holmes by DIY Kyoto (UK)......Page 69
Ambient Energy Orb by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (USA)......Page 71
Conclusions about Eco-visualisation for resource conservation......Page 73
References......Page 74
HELEN AND NEWTON HARRISON IN CONVERSATION WITH BRANDON BALLENGÉE......Page 77
Introduction......Page 91
The Value of Local compared to Global Approaches......Page 92
Confronting the Psychology......Page 94
Planetariums and the Dissemination of Knowledge......Page 96
Art and Science Dome Narratives......Page 98
Case Study: Atmosphere one......Page 99
Conclusion: Sustainable Futures......Page 102
Notes......Page 103
References......Page 104
The Buying and Selling of Greenhouse Gasses......Page 107
CFC Tranding......Page 108
Air and Property rights......Page 109
Air for Sale in Contemporary Art......Page 112
The Aer Exhibition......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 117
References......Page 118
RE-CONNECT......Page 121
Revealing the disconnections: its drivers and profiteers!......Page 123
Agriculture......Page 124
Food......Page 125
Impacts on human health......Page 126
Science and research......Page 127
Social impacts......Page 128
Secrecy and lack of transparency in agriculture, food production and science......Page 129
Differences......Page 130
Summarizing conclusions......Page 131
Progress in the face of blockades......Page 132
Notes......Page 133
References......Page 134
HEAT: ART, PEOPLE & CLIMATE CHANGE......Page 137
The Crossing......Page 139
The collaborative structure may hold a key......Page 140
Socio - poetic Images......Page 141
The Southern Cross - to bear and behold and Faith in a faithless land.......Page 143
The Global Mind Project 2010.......Page 145
References......Page 147
SOUTH AFRICAN URBAN SPACE: A ‘MEDIATED’ ENVIRONMENT......Page 149
South African urbanity as text and context to creativity and mediality......Page 150
South African urbanity unlocked by Ivan Vladislavić: the premises......Page 152
Johannesburg’s urbanity unlocked: Ivan Vladislavić’s Portrait with keys......Page 154
References......Page 162
Present Continuous......Page 163
Capitalism and technological optimism......Page 164
Culture and Cultivation......Page 165
Guild Culturing......Page 166
Luminous Green......Page 167
Imagining, greening and illuminat- ing possible worlds......Page 168
Integrated approach to complex issues......Page 171
Participatory culture......Page 172
Beautiful things, delightful stories......Page 173
Inconclusion......Page 174
References......Page 175
Civil law - emergency as a state of exception......Page 177
Sociology - emergency as a new type of urban catastrophe......Page 178
Media theory - emergency as the discourse of anomie......Page 179
Design economy - emergency as tranforma- tional topos......Page 180
Cultures of resistance, protest, refusal, exchange and transformation......Page 181
Forms of society as forms of art......Page 182
Emergenc design as precarious, nomadic adaptation of living spacce in five order......Page 183
First order: survival space / living space......Page 184
Second order: legal space / resources space......Page 185
Culture Hacking, grassroots capitalism, com- munications guerrilla......Page 186
Fourth order: media space / viewing space architecture, shelter housing, advertising, art......Page 188
Fifth orde: knowledge space / program space......Page 189
Microtopes - new zones of geo-energy (local and global )......Page 190
References......Page 191
Defining waste......Page 193
Getting to waste via its archetypes......Page 194
Via Africa......Page 195
Via Europe......Page 196
Via the USA......Page 198
‘Wasting Well’......Page 201
Tragic waste......Page 203
Artistry in waste......Page 205
What did we learn?......Page 206
The neon bone yard......Page 207
References......Page 208
BIOGRAPHIES......Page 211
Andrea Gleiniger\r......Page 212
Angelika Hilbeck\r......Page 213
Yana Milev\r......Page 214
Jill Scott\r......Page 215
Therese Steffen\r......Page 216