Snowy NYC

Art Hack Day / Deluge

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Tonight I am starting a two day art-making binge at something called Art Hack Day:

Art Hack Day is an internet-based nonprofit dedicated to hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is tech … Sixty artists-hackers and hacker-artists inhabit an art space to create an exhibit from scratch during 48h. We start on a Thursday evening with a meet & greet and provide good food, fast Internet, and equipment for collaborating on and creating new work. On Saturday evening we transition from hackspace to exhibition hall and the projects are shown to the public during a flash exhibit (open to the public just one evening).

Each Art Hack Day event has a theme, and this one is called Deluge.

The increased severity and frequency of extreme weather events, including recent years’ tropical storm systems, droughts and heat waves, are largely the result of human-induced climate change. In addition to widespread damage across the Atlantic seaside, Sandy’s flooding in New York’s Zone A confronted many artists and galleries directly with the reality of their environment, bringing undeniable gravity to a crisis that often seems distant. Decades of postponement and self-deceit will have to come to a close. But what comes next?

Come on out to Pioneer Works for the exhibition this Saturday, January 31st, starting at 7pm.

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First days of One World Trade Center

Problem Plants

Another Medium post from Ellie, on her weed garden and closing panel at CSAA:

The non-native interlopers who’ve taken up residence in the harsh urban environment of Bushwick aren’t pushing out native species, they’re filling empty niches. Adapted to difficult conditions, with flexible reproductive habits and opportunistic growth patterns, these urban plants are much better-suited to living side by side with Homo sapiens, despite our indifference to (or even aggressive dislike of) them.

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Wintry Bryant Park

Go nowhere in Manhattan

Marisa Olson's Getting Ready

Bushwick gallery hopping

Thanksgiving 2014

Balcony time lapse

Testing out how to make time lapses. I might do some more of these.

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