Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism

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Currently on view at upstate New York's verdant Colgate University is
an exhibition that ponders the ways in which new media artists can
successfully address environmental concerns. Despite the fact that the
development of new media has coincided with other ecologically
devastating "developments," the works attempt to do more good than harm
in "reinvent[ing] environmentalism for a digital age." Nature Version 2.0
is at the University's Clifford Art Gallery through February 16th and
is curated by artists Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir, whose EcoArtTech
collaborative has brought a number of thoughtful projects to the
region. In this case, an impressive handful of artists--including
Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Joline Blais, Jane Marsching, Colin
Ives, Alex Galloway, Amy Franceschini, Tom Sherman, Michael Alstad, Don
Miller (aka no carrier), and Andrea Polli--merge computer science and
environmental studies "by reusing and recycling obsolete technologies
for new uses, and by exploring how digital spaces and the public domain
may require environmental protection much like nature." On February
8th, the gallery will host a lecture by Jeremijenko and a multimedia
performance by Polli, entitled "90 Degrees South." Ultimately, the show
suggests that ecocriticism can be an engaging, sometimes playful, form
of intervention and takes the important first step of getting people to
think critically about the relationship between technology and nature. ReBlogged from Rhizome.org