Mendelson’s work is being featured this month of June in an two person show titled: “TRANSLATIONS FROM THE UBIQUITOUS LARGESSE” at the Sideshow Gallery in New York.  Click here to read the NYT review from today.

Blue Bubble Bottle, plastic from discarded bottles, hot glue, 10"x8"x8", 2009

“Running the Numbers II” is similar to Jordan’s first Running the Numbers series, each image portrays a specific quantity of something: the number of tuna fished from the world’s oceans every fifteen minutes, for example. Viagra online: but, according to the artist, this time the statistics are global in scale, rather than specifically American.  The works are dated 2009 but I ran across these images for the first time on the Chronicle for Higher Education’s website this weekend.

Gyre (2009) Chris Jordan

One of my favorite pieces is Gyre, a 8×11 foot image that depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every HOUR.  All of the plastic viewed in this image was evidently collected from the Pacific Ocean.

There are more great examples and detail shots from this series here, bookmark to keep tabs on Chris Jordan and his complex photographs that tell us an important story in a non-didactic way.

Copy available also at the 01SJ website: http://zero1.org/01sj/greenprix/workshop

Ecoarttech’s work has consistently explored relationships between landscape, technology, and culture, and their commissioned work for whitney.org metaphorically explores the museum’s information landscape as it is shaped by its visitors.

I am going to have my classes tune in live in Chicago on January 5 and 6, 2010 to observe this unnatural phenomenon.

Unnatural sunrise by Ecoarttech temporarily disrupts the Whitney's main web portal.

I was really impressed with several of Natalie Jeremijenko’s recent projects, specifically a piece called Fwish; buy viagra online. Buy viagra online: the Fwish Interface is a grid of robotics buoys that monitor the dissolved oxygen levels in the water and sense fish presence. Buy viagra online: colored LED lights blink when fish swim beneath the buoys.

Schematic drawing for Fwish interface

The goal of Fwish is to collect and communicate real time data to the public about the water quality and fish activity.  Fwish recently launched in NYC, though the project has been in development for several years.  Jerimijenko and her collaborators needed to complete a great deal of negotiation and paperwork with the public authorities to gain permission to launch the buoys in the river.

Video available herE: http://vimeo.com/408474

Tappening is an activist group bent on spreading rumors about bottled water using the same techniques that bottled water companies use to spread rumors about tap water.

The lies include a multitude of tactics from the funny buy cialis online, “Evian is actually collected from the sweat that freely flows from the armpits of Gerard Depardieu,” to the more sensitive, “Bottled water causes blindness in puppies.”

In addition to the clever campaign of bottled water lies, Tappening’s website offers invaluable information on the truth about bottled and tap water and includes a database of quality tap water around the United States.For those in NYC, tap into the action with TapIt, an iPhone app that identifies cafes around the city providing a free fill-up service for reusable bottles.

Thanks to Coolhunting and Michael Mandiberg for bringing this ridiculously funny ad campaign to my attention; buy cialis online.

I’m not entirely sure of the scope of the Paths of Desire project, but it somehow involves dumping colored pigments from recycled water bottles.  Mosher’s piece in the Drawing Center is part of the Arts on the Horizon series presented by the River to River Festival coming up on July 18th.Mosher encourages everyone to go down to the Battery Park Bosque between 11am and 4pm to pick up your pigment water order viagra online, then you are off to trace your path as you explore the history of Lower Manhattan as influenced by water.

Paths of Desire by Eve Mosher