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Video: Kids Nest Building Timelapse
On August 18, 2018 the Taos Land Trust hosted a community event to gain feedback on the draft master plan for Rio Fernando Park – a public space the land trust is creating in the center of Taos, New Mexico. Local artists came to lead kids and adults alike in the creation of giant landscape-scale…
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Resource: Lightweighting principles inspired by nature
During her Synapse webinar, Lightweighting Models Beyond Bones, Biomimicry 3.8 co-founder and author Janine Benyus reviewed a set of twelve lightweighting principles inspired by the natural world. Now, we’ve turned that into an infographic as a quick and easy reference to how nature uses materials efficiently and creatively without compromising functionality. High quality PDF available for…
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Define: What is Ecological Art?
Ecological art is an art genre and artistic practice that seeks to preserve, remediate and/or vitalize the life forms, resources and ecology of Earth, by applying the principles of ecosystems to living species and their habitats throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere, including wilderness, rural, suburban and urban locations. Read more in this definition…
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What is Polage Art?
Artist Austine Wood Comarow talks about her art and how the materials make color without any pigments or dyes. https://vimeo.com/296214230
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Video: Art With Polarization
In this project we will make beautiful pieces of art that can change their colour when you move them. We do this by using the phenomenon called polarisation – this is a property that light waves exhibit. So, in the end, you will not only use your creativity but also learn something about the physics…
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Project: Polarized-Light Mosaic
Using transparent tape and polarizing material, you can make and project beautifully colored patterns reminiscent of abstract or geometric stained-glass windows. Rotating the polarizer as you view the patterns makes the colors change. https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/polarized-light-mosaic
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Video: The Case for Land Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
EARTHWORKS. LAND ART. EARTH ART. Whatever you call it, we look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
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Samantha Lee: Universal Assembly Unit pulsing Light Pollination installation for iGuzzini
Commissioned by iGuzzini, Light Pollination consists of 20,000 LED lights embedded on the ends of fibre-optic cables. These gently pulse with light to mimic the phenomenon of bioluminescence in nature. https://www.dezeen.com/2016/09/12/video-interview-universal-assembly-unit-interactive-installation-light-pollination-iguzzini-movie/
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Project: Invisible Art- Mosaics, Polarized Light, and 3D Glasses
This simple project capitalizes on the ability of certain materials that not only polarize light but twist it, and of 3D glasses to see that light as various colors. https://www.instructables.com/id/Invisible-Art-Mosaics-Polarized-Light-and-3D-Glass/
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Alexandra Toland: Dust Blooms. Can we put a price on the services that urban flowers provide?
Artist and landscape planner Alexandra Toland worked with experts in environmental microbiology, urban soils, and of course urban ecosystem services to explore the ability of flowers to help filter atmospheric particulate matter (PM.) https://we-make-money-not-art.com/dust-bloom-can-we-put-a-price-on-the-services-that-urban-flowers-provide/
