Image title: Wilderness Trouble, Digital Video 2006

Ecoarttech is an exciting digital/ecological art collaborative

Spend an evening on Thursday, April 15 starting at 7pm with Ecoarttech - a collaboration of Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint.  They work with sustainable and digital technologies to make art about our relationships to media, the environment, and modern life. They will present some of their recent works in a film and host a discussion about sustainability, environmental ethics, and what it means to interface natural, built, social, and digital environments.

"EcoArtTech challenges our perception and highlights the inseparability of nature and culture."

Moe Beitiks from Inhabitat.com

A Free Event!

ABOUT ECOARTTECH: http://www.ecoarttech.net/

Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir founded the ecoarttech collaborative in 2005 in order to explore environmental issues and convergent media and technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective, including art, digital studies, philosophy, literature, and eco-criticism.

For ecoarttech, the term “environment“ does not refer only to nature or geographic spaces; rather, we understand it as part of an interwoven network of biological, cultural, mental, and digital spaces, and we imagine the health of each as indistinguishable from the health of others. In the words of Gregory Bateson, the planet is part of humans’ “eco-mental system“: “if Lake Erie is driven insane [by pollution], its insanity is incorporated in the larger system of your thought and experience.“

Ecoarttech regularly curates exhibitions of digital eco-art, including Nature 2.0 at Colgate University in 2008, which featured works by Natalie Jeremijenko, Brooke Singer, Jane Marsching, Alexander Galloway, Michael Alstad, Andrea Polli, Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers, and other artists. In 2008, Cary and Christine were senior artists faculty at the Banff New Media Institute in Canada. Recent works include “Eclipse“ (2009), an internet-based work commissioned by Turbulence of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., “Untitled Landscape #5“ (2009), a digital environmental work commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, and “Center for Wildness and the Everyday“ (2010), an interdisciplinary networked artwork created collaboratively with faculty and students at the University of North Texas exploring the Trinity River Basin and commissioned by the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design.

Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint are 2009 Artists’ Fellowship recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).