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Raven Chacon, 'American Ledger No. 1 (Army Blanket)' (2020), Score for performance, unique army blanket, digital print

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Dennis Oppenheim, "Directed Seeding", 1969

"Canceled Crop", 1969

https://www.dennisaoppenheim.org/cancelled-crop

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Wreckage of Iran Air Flight 655, 1988.

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Ettore Sottsass Jr.’s Metaphors (1972-1979)

“He starts leaving discrete signs in the landscape, almost invisible traces, he continues building real architectures or metaphors of the architectural profession. ” (Barbara Radice)

“Design Metaphors” is a sequence of photographs taken by Ettore Sottsass Jr. during his journeys to the deserts of Spain (Barcelone, Madrid, Almeria, Grenade) and to the Pyrenees. The Metaphors are temporary land-art or pseudo architectural constructions created in the landscape, made of poor and fragile items, pieces of string, wood, ribbons, leaves, stones, pieces of clothing, etc., referring to the precarious nature of things.

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Square dance diagram from The Dancing Master (1651)

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John Cage, «Fontana Mix», 1958.

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Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998

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Satellite images of a horse, pomegranates, and a camel, created from Solar Panel installations in China and Mongolia.

Via @[email protected].

The Horse image was created in association with Huawei, in a project that also includes agrivoltaics (growing crops between and underneath solar panels):

In the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia, the State Power Investment Corporation used Huawei's smart PV solution to build a 300 MW solar power station. The power station located in Dalad Banner, an administrative region in Inner Mongolia, boasts 196,000 solar panels that were installed in the pattern of a galloping horse. By the end of 2022, the power station had produced 2.566 billion kWh of green electricity, equivalent to saving 1.027 million tons of coal equivalent and reducing CO2 by 2.56 million tons. The project has also fixed more than 1,000 hectares of sand. The solar panels do far more than just generate electricity. Local residents have been able to plant herbs and shrubs under the panels and cash crops like desert false indigo and Mongolian milk vetch between the arrays. This prevents further erosion of the land between the panel arrays and contributes to wind and sand fixation and ecosystem restoration. This power station serves as a perfect example of how PV can support desertification control, and plans to replicate this success are being made in other desert lands of western China.

Alxa Right Banner, in Mongolia, the location of the Camel design, is a thriving camel business region. Hotan, in Xinjiang, China, is likewise a prominent pomegranate cultivation area.

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Hans Haacke, Krefeld Sewage Triptych (1972)

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Hans Haacke, Monument to Beach Pollution (1970)

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Julius Koller, Universal Futurological Question Mark (U.F.O), 1978.

https://kadist.org/work/universal-futurological-question-mark-u-f-o/

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Political scientist, educator, and author, Sébastien Thiéry works at the intersection of art and activism. With PEROU and SOS Mediterranée, Navire Avenir’ (Ship of the Future) is being the first vessel specifically conceived for ‘mass rescue’ on the Mediterranean Sea, has been designed in collaboration with rescue workers, survivors, caregivers, artists, and architects. A project of PEROU, ‘Navire Avenir’ is a pioneering 69-meter catamaran, designed by a group of 500 designers, rescue workers, survivors, caregivers, artists, architects and students from Europe and South America. Its aim is to equip those involved in rescue operations on the high seas, and amplify the impact of their actions. The vessel’s design has evolved through residencies in museums, theaters, choreographic centers, and art centers in France and Italy since 2020.

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Parish council erects pylon to fight new power line [BBC]

That's Baugespann!

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked #AtCERN as “scanners”. Their job consisted in identifying the trajectories of the particles in the images taken inside the bubble chambers. “Scanning” took place around the clock. The work was done manually, using a pencil and a sheet of paper to note down the coordinates of where the interactions had taken place and a description of the interactions. The shifts only lasted four hours since scanners worked in complete darkness, which put a lot of strain on the eyes.

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https://www.timhunkin.com/85_waterclockposter.htm