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Art Action Environment

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:45:00 -0700

Some of my work is featured in this upcoming show in New York City. It is new work, and I will also be conducting two workshops. Flavonoid Time! and Plant your own Anti-Cancer-Garden

September 28 – December 15, 2012
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design

Opening reception:
September 27, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Check out the schedule to sign up for the free workshops!

Pigeonblog - (The Book) on view at Documenta 12

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:21:00 -0700

as part of the
Worldly House

Interview in Mexican online magazine

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:53:00 -0800

Interview with registromx

'Dying for the Other"

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:23:00 -0800

part of “3ème édition des Rencontres des arts numériques, électroniques et médiatiques,” Soiree Cinéma, Cinéma le Palace; Le Vigan, France

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"The Life Garden" on display at Eyebeam

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:09:00 -0800

“The Life Garden” (a work in progress) is on display at the Eyebeam Bookstore until December 15.

"Dying for the Other" currently on view at Eyebeam

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:29:00 -0800

The current version of “Dying for the Other” is on view at
Eyebeam
in New York until mid November.

EcoCultures

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:01:05 -0700

Dying for the Other” (as part of the “Cost of Life project series) will be shown as part of Ecocultures at George Mason University. Opening: Sept. 22nd,2011.

The Cost of Life
Beatriz da Costa

The Cost of Life examines the ethical, emotional, and economic costs of producing and sustaining life. The Cost of Life consists of a series of projects spanning different media. The first “Dying for the Other,” is a video triptych addressing a situation of shared suffering, involving mice used in breast cancer research, and humans afflicted with the same disease. In order to produce this video, da Costa documented scenes of her own life during the summer of 2011 and combined them with footage taken at a breast cancer research facility in New York City over the same time span. “Dying for the Other,” is being exhibited for the first time as part of EcoCultures.

The Endangered Species Finder (exhibition)

Sat, 14 May 2011 08:30:35 -0700

SMITHS ROW GALLERY, Suffolk, UK.

Into the Wild takes the wilderness around us and the infinite flora and fauna within it as a core theme. Directly inspired by our location within the rural region of East Anglia this exhibition hopes to reconnect you with nature. See work by artists whose working practice explores the unseen, potentially fragile and endangered elements of the natural world.

Featuring: Sam Bakewell, Ultimate Holding Company, Beatriz da Costa, Eleanor Morgan, Lee Patterson, Laura Pullig, Matthew Smith and Chiz Turnross.

http://www.smithsrow.org/index.php/exhibitions/details/into_the_wild/

Sat May 14-Jul 2.

The Endangered Species Finder (Lighting Talk at FutureLabCamp)

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:38:00 -0700

http://futurelabcamp.com/

Exploring the future of biological prototyping

FutureLabCamp is a weekend hackathon (fri-sun) taking place in NYC this April.

A weekend celebrating the exchange of biologists, artists, engineers and designers. Join our lecture series and participate in a three day hackathon and camp-out at our venue. We will develop imaginative make/shift devices and prototypes interacting with biological systems to investigate the future of biotechnologies.

Beatriz da Costa in conversation

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:53:39 -0800

http://www.artscatalyst.org/about/article/beatriz_da_costa_in_conversation/

Beatriz da Costa discusses the inspiration and processes involved in creating the installation which confronts visitors with the reality of British species threatened with extinction.

The Los Angeles-based artist will talk about her recent work, A Memorial for the Still Living with Rikke Hansen, host of Nature Calls: Animals in Visual Culture on Resonance 104.4 FM, London’s arts radio station.

The installation, A Memorial for the Still Living, curated by The Arts Catalyst and John Hansard Gallery, was recently on display at the Horniman Museum, London.

Endangered Species Finder UK released & available for download

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:01:00 -0700

project website

The Endangered Species Finder helps you to locate, identify, and submit sightings of endangered species.

available in app store now.

project development team: Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte, Anoop Palvai, Sara Gevurtz.

A Memorial for the Still Living opens at Horniman

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -0700

exhibition announcement

Beatriz da Costa’s installation explores the ‘dark places’ of zoological science, presenting a sombre reflection on endangered species of the British Isles.

Exhibition now open at Horniman Museum & Gardens, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 3PQ, UK

until 9 January 2011, admission free

Beatriz da Costa presents a sombre reflection on endangered species in an installation which confronts visitors with the reality of British species threatened with extinction. Her interest here is to confront visitors with the only mode of encounter left once a species has grown extinct: the description, image, sound or taxidermed shell of a once thriving organism. However, rather than focusing on already extinct species, da Costa’s focus is on the ‘still living’; species that have been classified as being under threat, but which still stand a chance for survival if immediate action is taken.

Artist’s talk: 7-9.30pm Thursday 25 November 2010

Toxic Pesticide Banned after Decades of Use

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:38:07 -0700

Scientific American

A farm chemical with an infamous history – causing the worst known outbreak of pesticide poisoning in North America – is being phased out under an agreement announced Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sustainable Art Practices / Producing Art in the 21st Century

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:40:00 -0700

review in Artpulse
by Christiane Paul

Pigeonblogger as part of Small Wonders at San Jose Airport

Wed, 26 May 2010 22:51:00 -0700

Small Wonders, 2010
Presented by ZER01: The Art and Technology Network
Norman Mineta San Jose International Airport

Wunderkammer, also known as cabinets of curiosities, were diverse collections of objects popular during the Renaissance and considered an early form of the museum. Literally meaning “wonder room,” a wunderkammer was meant to invoke a sense of wonder and often included a wide range of objects from natural history specimens (such as taxidermy) to geological artifacts (such as precious stones) to cultural objects (such as handicrafts). Small Wonders presents a range of objects by mostly local artists. The display are meant to evoke the wonder of the early history of Silicon Valley, and computing in general, with projects making use of the early Minitel for animations or a hack of an Altair computer. Other wonderful “curiosities” that artists create employ various forms of technology from blogging pigeons, to spying coconuts, to a lifelike origami peregrine falcon.

photostream on flickr

More information is online at 01sj.org/2010/exhibitions/small-wonders/

Curated by: Steve Dietz with Jaime Austin
Display design: Shona Kitchen and Ben Hooker.

U.S. Clears Test of Bioengineered Trees

Thu, 20 May 2010 12:09:00 -0700

NYTimes

Federal regulators gave clearance Wednesday for a large and controversial field test of genetically engineered trees planned for seven states stretching from Florida to Texas.

Art+Science Now

Mon, 10 May 2010 12:12:37 -0700

A visual survey of artists working at the frontiers of science and technology. Focus on work since 2000. Covers artistic experimentation in fields such as biology, ecology, medical research, physics, geology, robotics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, information visualization, and body sensing computer interfaces.

Chimps Grieve Over Dead Relatives

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:34:00 -0700

Science Magazine

In November of 2008, a chimpanzee in her 50s known as Pansy became lethargic and obviously ill at the Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park in the United Kingdom. Three other adults, including Pansy’s 20-year-old daughter Rosie, began tending to her, grooming her, and sleeping nearby instead of in their own nesting areas.

Bulging Mutant Trout Created: More Muscle, More Meat

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:49:00 -0700

National Geographic Daily News

Scientists have created hundreds of mutant fish with “six-pack abs” and bulging “shoulders” by beefing them up with new genes.

Traumatized vets say service dogs help them to live

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:44:00 -0700

Seattle Times

Weeks after Chris Goehner, 25, an Iraq war veteran, got a dog, he was able to cut in half the dose of anxiety and sleep medications he took for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The night terrors and suicidal thoughts that kept him awake for days on end ceased.