S T R E A M I N G M U S E U M a r t i s t s a n d i n n o v a t o r s f o r t h e e n v i r o n m e n t I o c t o b e r 3 - d e c e m b e r 3 | 2 0 0 8 europe | united states | australia | antarctica | south korea | south africa | uruguay | second life

         

         

Created and directed by Nina Colosi, STREAMING MUSEUM is a new hybrid Museum that presents exhibitions in cyberspace and public spaces on seven continents.

Artists and Innovators for the Environment is a threepart,six-month exhibition. Part one, on view from October 3 to December 3, will feature international visionary creators Buckminster Fuller, design scientist; James Nachtwey,photographer; John Cage, Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Gustavo Santaolalla, Huang Ruo and Jacob ter Veldhuis, composers; Agnes Denes and Anni Rapinoja artists, Brian Mackern new media artist, Cedar Lake Dance, and the Nunatak Band of the British Antarctic base. The exhibition can be viewed in cyberspace at www.streamingmuseum.org and at Ars Virtual New Media Center in Second Life. Among the public locations screening the exhibition are: Africa: Ubuntu Center, Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Asia: Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Antarctica: British Antarctic base; Australia: Federation Square, Melbourne; Europe: BBC screens throughout the UK; North America: Victory Park, Dallas, Texas, USA; South America: Centro Municipal de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay; Second Life: Ars Virtua New Media Center; and many other locations.

Emanuel Pimenta's section involves the figures of John Cage; Merce Cunningham; Joseph Beuys; John Archibald Wheeler; Brazilian forests; the nature in Abruzzo, Italy; the islands Seychelles; the megacity of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a magical garden created there by Marly Freire.

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