Nell Tenhaaf summarizes the best the VIDA competition, including an early work from Transnational Temps.

From Spain, Novus Extinctus (2001, VIDA 4.0) by Transnational Temps (Andy Deck, Fred Adam and Verónica Perales), is an Internet artwork whose central message is that the expansion of human presence on the World Wide Web, measured via the number of domain names registered daily, climbs in a deadly parallel with the number of species that go extinct. The site has a strong element of marketing spoof as well, linking Latin species names to commercial sites such as TigerDirect that use the names of exotic animals. Source

Transnational Temps entered and won the Shift Space Commission Program's competition for the best 'trail.' The Transnational Temps entry pulled together a variety of websites that address or exemplify 'greenwashing': the use of misleading PR and advertising to cleanse a corporation’s image with respect to its environmental impact. In recent years, and especially after the release of An Inconvenient Truth, the public perception of global warming has changed. But the tremendous increase of feel-good PR on the part of some of the most environmentally abusive corporations on earth leads us to wonder who will hold greenwashers accountable for their deceptions.



Shift Space is a browser add-on that enables its users to superimpose comments above existing websites. The 'trail' paradigm is a thematic series of pages that are part of the Shift Space network of annotated sites.

Transnational Temps would like to acknowledge the participation of several students who contributed to a class project that got the greenwashing ball rolling. Elise, Dara, Sheena and Hye Seung: thank you for helping to make the project a success.

Transnational Temps colabora con NEOKINOK TV en Live Streaming para Greenpeace España en el IPCC'07 Cambio Climático, Valencia, Cuidad de las Ciencias del 12 al 16 de Noviembre del 2007. Comparte tus comentarios sobre el evento IPCC'07 en nuestro Foro Ecoscope
Estaremos también aqui para pegar y distribuir Eco-stickers durante el evento.

Eco-stickers invite people to consider environmental issues and visit Eco-scope to discuss them.

Primera Ecoscope Eco-stickers action en la ciudad de Valencia, España. Si quieres intervenir en el espacio público, se puede imprimir las plantillas de stickers.
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Ecological Strategies in Today's Art

The exhibition Ecomedia presents projects founded on progressive
ecological models and conceives utopian horizons in the process. It
peruses fundamental considerations concerning ecosystems,
sustainability, renewable energy sources, as well as visions of the
future.

In addition, it examines the role of art and new media over and
above science, technology, and ecoactivism.
The artistic approaches rooted in the link between media technologies
and so-called "natural" systems such as climate, water, and earthquakes
are innovative. These projects revolve around the charting of data and
their audio visualization. For the most part, they circumvent common
scientific technological recording methods and open up new worlds of
perception

 

 

 

 

12. October 2007– 13. January 2008

Edith Russ Site for Media Art

Katharinenstraße 23

D-26121 Oldenburg

Germany