http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview Explore, Explain, and Protect the Natural World Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm excited to be giving a talk about the Long View project at Target's Spark lecture series in Minneapolis on January 26. Each month Target's creative teams host a speaker with a unique practice or story to relate. Past guests include film director Pete Docter, polar environmentalist Will Steger, and ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2012/01/long-view-talk-in-minneapolis/ Like the previously posted beer cans, this one was recovered from Antarctica’s Dry Valleys across the sound from McMurdo Station. It's likely the oldest of the lot (note the steel lid, pre-dating aluminum ends) and certainly the most weather-punished. Its rich textures and varied colors demanded that both sides of ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/12/antarctic-item-007/ This Heineken can appears to have been laying on its side at the mercy of the Antarctic elements for some time, rendering one half quite rusty and the other half thoroughly so. Oxidation aside, its advanced age is also revealed by a pair of lid piercings. It wasn't till the ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/12/antarctic-item-006/ Similar as this Bud can appears to the previous post, this one proves older on close inspection. In addition to having lost its red pigment, this one's blue has faded too. Oxidation is more advanced here, particularly on the top and bottom. But the biggest clue is the fully-detachable pull-tab ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/12/antarctic-item-005/ I'm back to cataloging more discards that I retrieved from Antarctica to include in my artwork. This month's featured finds are beer cans. This Bud can appears to be relatively new, judging by its condition and stay-on-tab design. Still, it languished long enough for the weather to have stripped it of ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/12/antarctic-item-004/ I'm pleased to be taking part in "Age of Wonder," a group show around the theme of art engaged with the natural world. My new sculpture, LV Installation I, marks my first exhibition of The Long View project, which has been in progress since 2009. Featuring four custom-built shelf units to ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/11/long-view-installation-i-age-of-wonder/ My wall installation, RGB-123, is currently on view in "Keeping an Eye on Surveillance," a group show at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco. PAI describes the exhibition as 'a comprehensive look at societal surveillance in the post-9/11 world. Over twenty artists, working in media ranging from painting and ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/10/rgb-123/ I'm currently working on a large wall installation for an upcoming group show titled "Keeping an Eye on Surveillance." My piece, titled "RGB-123," references airborne observation tech-nology as described in my Long View posts about remote sensing from outer space and McMurdo’s role in high-altitude scientific research. This photo shows the ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/09/keeping-an-eye-on-surveillance/ Like many of the exquisitely oxidized artifacts in my Long View Waste Stream Reclamation collection, this can with 'teeth' was found and donated to the project by Marble Point camp manager Randall “Crunch” Noring. No label remains but the can's contents was presumably agreeable judging by the many jabs to its ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/08/antarctic-item-011/ At the bottom of the Earth, the 10-meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) is mapping the farthest edges of the visible Universe. In the process, cosmologists have come to real- ize that what we can see makes up only 5% of the mass and energy of our Universe. The invisible remainder consists of ... http://www.calacademy.org/medialibrary/blogs/thelongview/2011/07/long-view-study-no-18-the-invisible-universe-i/