http://water-wheel.net/ Waterwheel (water as theme and as visual metaphor in the new media Net artwork) by Suzon Fuks
Exploring water-as a topic and metaphor-Waterwheel is an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation. Waterwheel investigates and celebrates this constant yet volatile global resource, fundamental element, environmental issue, political dilemma, universal theme and symbol of life. It encourages you to explore and discover, share and collaborate, contribute and participate.
Waterwheel calls on everyone-performers and artists, scientists and environmentalists, students and academics, you and me, anyone and anywhere-to test the water, dive in, make a splash and start a wave. It provides a platform and forum for experience and exchange, expression and experimentation. Waterwheel draws together different people, practices, places, media and modes of expression. There are no borders or boundaries. Waterwheel flows along its natural course.
You can engage with Waterwheel in many different ways …
Forty years ago, Betsy Damon stepped outside her traditional art training and carved a unique path to work with the environment, communities, science and art. She began looking to her inner consciousness as a source of inspiration which initiated her public engagement, starting with gritty art performances on the New York City streets. She was engaged in the women's movement of the 1970s, where she founded No Limits for Women Artists, a network to join and support female artists.
In 1985, after a cross-country camping trip with her children, Betsy found herself reconnected to the primal elements of the natural world --the sound of wind, the flow of water, the forest, the rain. This initiated the casting of a 250-foot dry riverbed, The Memory of Clean Water, which brought her attention to the invisible destruction that development was having on water sources. In the early evening, while casting the riverbed, Betsy looked up to realize that the stones of the riverbed were patterned like the stars of the sky, that everywhere were the patterns of water. She committed herself to learning everything about water, little did she know that 27 years later she would still be deeply entrenched.
Beginning with the creation of Keepers of the Waters in 1991, Betsy has continued to work towards creating community based models of water stewardship. Her work includes sculpture, teaching, lectures and workshops. In China, she created the nation's first public art event for the environment, and most notably the Living Water Garden, a world renowned public park and natural water filtration model. In the US, she is continuously working with communities and grassroots groups, as well as completing art/ design commissions.
Betsy Damon's inspiration comes from extensive research of sacred water sites, and her curiosity for the biology and earth sciences that compose living systems. Always seeking new ways to articulate the complexity of water and engage communities in caring for this precious resource, Betsy continues her passion.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddYApFEWfY
http://myplasticfreelife.com/images/Dianna_Cohen_007.jpg
http://www.kristinmcardledance.com/movies/files/page2-1003-pop.html
Development of Ceramic Filters for Household Water Treatment in Nigeria
Art and Design Review
2014. Vol.2, No.1, 6-10
Published Online February 2014
Ceramic water filtration is the process that makes use of a porous ceramic (fired clay) medium to filter
microbes or other contaminants from water.
Waterwheel (water as theme and as visual metaphor in the new media Net artwork) by Suzon Fuks
Exploring water-as a topic and metaphor-Waterwheel is an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation. Waterwheel investigates and celebrates this constant yet volatile global resource, fundamental element, environmental issue, political dilemma, universal theme and symbol of life. It encourages you to explore and discover, share and collaborate, contribute and participate.
Waterwheel calls on everyone-performers and artists, scientists and environmentalists, students and academics, you and me, anyone and anywhere-to test the water, dive in, make a splash and start a wave. It provides a platform and forum for experience and exchange, expression and experimentation. Waterwheel draws together different people, practices, places, media and modes of expression. There are no borders or boundaries. Waterwheel flows along its natural course.
You can engage with Waterwheel in many different ways …
http://www.kristinmcardledance.com/movies/files/page2-1000-pop.html
http://www.kristinmcardledance.com/movies/files/page2-1003-pop.html
http://www.lindaweintraub.com/tolife
a pilgrimage, September 17, 1987 to April 17, 1994
http://earthheartist.com/cleansing.html
Dominique Mazeaud
Keepers of the Water
http://keepersofthewaters.org/
Forty years ago, Betsy Damon stepped outside her traditional art training and carved a unique path to work with the environment, communities, science and art. She began looking to her inner consciousness as a source of inspiration which initiated her public engagement, starting with gritty art performances on the New York City streets. She was engaged in the women's movement of the 1970s, where she founded No Limits for Women Artists, a network to join and support female artists.
In 1985, after a cross-country camping trip with her children, Betsy found herself reconnected to the primal elements of the natural world --the sound of wind, the flow of water, the forest, the rain. This initiated the casting of a 250-foot dry riverbed, The Memory of Clean Water, which brought her attention to the invisible destruction that development was having on water sources. In the early evening, while casting the riverbed, Betsy looked up to realize that the stones of the riverbed were patterned like the stars of the sky, that everywhere were the patterns of water. She committed herself to learning everything about water, little did she know that 27 years later she would still be deeply entrenched.
Beginning with the creation of Keepers of the Waters in 1991, Betsy has continued to work towards creating community based models of water stewardship. Her work includes sculpture, teaching, lectures and workshops. In China, she created the nation's first public art event for the environment, and most notably the Living Water Garden, a world renowned public park and natural water filtration model. In the US, she is continuously working with communities and grassroots groups, as well as completing art/ design commissions.
Betsy Damon's inspiration comes from extensive research of sacred water sites, and her curiosity for the biology and earth sciences that compose living systems. Always seeking new ways to articulate the complexity of water and engage communities in caring for this precious resource, Betsy continues her passion.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/13046/11-artists-doing-amazing-things-recycled-materials
http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/culture/graphic-advocacy-posters-digital-age/
http://justiceunbound.org/culture/art/wetlands-advocacy-art/