Science and Intuition: An Interview with Alicia Toldi
I caught up with an old friend and artist Alicia Toldi, whose drawings and photographs explore the human experience of the environment – of “time, space, and memory” – by […]
Editor’s Note/Updates
For anyone interested, some updates on the status of Artvironmentalist: Things are going to be changing. A bit. I started this blog in 2013 with the intention of exploring art […]
Culture and Ecology: an Interview With Celeste Neuhaus
Celeste Neuhaus is an artist working at the intersection of the synthetic and the organic, balance and imbalance, and culture and nature. From video work to sculpture to 2D compositions, […]
Re-Imagine Now: Participatory Performance on Climate
by Allie Tsubota We often categorize climate change as an issue remote in time and space – that is, its impacts are far-reaching temporally and geographically, leaving present-day Americans unable […]
Book Review: Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project
If contemporary art is our cultural navigator of the anthropocene, then Research Theatre, Climate Change, and the Ecocide Project, a five-part manifesto outlining one group of artists’ processes and philosophy of […]
Invasive Ecology: Ellie Irons’ Urban Pigment Garden
With projects that range from Watershed Topography Drawings to Speculative Arboriculture to the EPA-funded work Neversink Transmissions, and with a background in environmental science, Brooklyn-based artist Ellie Irons‘ works contain within them […]
Dear Climate: Meeting, Befriending, and Becoming Climate Change
Few, if any, answers are provided by the recent project Dear Climate, but that’s not the point; instead, it ropes its viewers and listeners into a profound mode of questioning with different “acts,” […]
Night Light: Multi-Media Garden Party at SOMArts
One chilly San Francisco Saturday night, a thousand miles away from Flux Factory’s recent Nightlight exhibition, SOMArts presented an opening to be reckoned with: their own garden party full of local […]
‘Hy-Fi’ by the Living at MoMA PS1
I visited MoMA PS1 to catch a glimpse of the Living’s ‘Hy-Fi’ project, an architectural sculpture built entirely of organic, compostable bricks that won MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program annual […]
Amar Kanwar, Environmental Filmmaker, Wins Prize for Art and Social Change
In a recent announcement, New York-based public art non-profit Creative Time revealed the winner of their annual Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change. The recipient, Amar Kanwar, is best […]
