ecoarttechCo-founded in 2005 by Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint
EcoArtTech works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art
that explores the environmentality of modern life.
featured works
Eclipse
In development: An open source app that visually corrupts images & photostreams of idealized 'nature' images using dynamic air pollution and visibility data from selected U.S. national parks. Commissioned by Turbulence. More info to come...
Environmental Risk Assessment
Rover - AT, 2008
(ERAR-AT) A solar-powered, all-terrain mobile station that collects real-time risk data relative to its local coordinates. More >>
critiques of nature and wilderness as viable categories to ground environmental ethics.discussions of whether human use of technology is an ecological fault or a strength.the interaction of thedigital and the natural. the re-imagination of what constitutes technology. nature and culture'sinseparability. technology’s mediation of environmental ethics. experiences of the local in the context of globality. technology's systemization during modernization.historical and cultural constructions ofland and space. the relation of new media technologies to humans’ primordial use of technics(i.e. tools or skills that transform raw materials and/or produce comfort and pleasure).
news & events
EcoArtTech/blog, Our new blog for EcoArtTech related research. Live! Right now!
Earth Art to Eco Art, Cornell University, October 16 – 18, 2008. More info to come....
Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Presentation of recent works, November, 7, 2008.
Over the Opening - OTO, EcoArtTech's new performance "Externalities: Wilderness & its Others," Friday Sept 5th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2008.
Interactive Screen 0.8, Banff New Media Institute's New Media Summit, Banff, Alberta, August 23 – 30, 2008.
This work is made possible in part by generous contributions from K2 Family Foundation, SolarOne Green Energy, Arts & Education Center, Colgate University and the Paul A. Garrison Faculty Research Fellowship, the Pine Lake Environmental Campus of Hartwick College, and a Turbulence Net Art Comission. All canines featured in these works are rescued Akitas brought into our inter-species family via the awesome people at Akita Rescue of Western New York.