What is North?
Is North a direction or a place? Is it a state of mind or an image? Might it be all of these?
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Science and Imagination: A+E Conference and new Research Fellows
The Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art on October 9–11, 2014 included a number of presentations of collaborative teams working on documenting landscape change.
Soy Sauce Hunting
They eat my skin: ‘Mattak’ they call it. Cut in small cubes you can make out the mottled white pattern on my skin attached to the blubber. It is thicker than that of other whale species – and some say better tasting.
The site-specific animals of l’Île de Nantes
Standing on the quayside, opposite the house of Jules Verne, one would not be surprised to see the mechanical Nautilus or its accompanying giant squid breaking the green waters of the Loire. One almost also expects to see estuary dolphins jump through Daniel Buren’s giant loops along the new promenade of the harbourfront transformation area, designating it as a public urban space through signature art (In the case of Buren: always striped).
The City that is an Island
In Tasiilaq on Greenland’s East Coast infrastructure and the urban support systems are present and highly visible in the town. This provides a contrast to modern cities in other parts of the world—in which infrastructure is often both visually and geographically removed from the everyday lives of the inhabitants.