TERRANODE: An Extreme Home Entertainment System

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

Pequeño extracto en formato PDF de la charla con Ana Navarrete en Ecoscope el 07-10-07

Extracts of a discussion with Ana Navarrete in Ecoscope on 07-10-07 (PDF format).

Keywords: Nuclear power - War and fear - Google Earth - Darfur - Ana Navarrete

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11 OCTUBRE 19:00 en LALALAB / calle doctor chiarri, 10 bajo-valencia

PETER BOSCH & SIMONE SIMONS+TRANSNATIONAL TEMPS+EMANUELE MAZZA…+
Dorkbot es un encuentro informal entre artistas, ingenieros y ciudadanos en general interesados en el “arte electrónico” en el sentido más amplio del término.

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Who do you talk to about your Earth issues?

Converse with a chimpanzee about habitat problems, or discuss overfishing with a whale.

These are just two possible encounters in EcoScope, which will be part of the Eco-Media exhibition in Germany beginning October 11th, 2007. Produced by the international art collective Transnational Temps, this online forum also offers tools for sending quirky postcards to friends, either electronically or through your printer. You’re invited to come join the conversation. There’s content in EcoScope before you arrive, but half the fun is what you bring to it. Peer into the EcoScope!

The work was produced for Transnational Temps.

http://terranode.org/ecoScope/

Members of a more than a few species are beginning to be outnumbered by
cute caricatures on the Internet. This collection of illustrations
depicting some of the world’s most endangered species demonstrates
this trend.

By finding and contributing similar illustrations you can participate in the production of posters
that draw attention to the virtualization of the animal kingdom. Visit http://terranode.org/act/07/wildlifeOffline/

Arco 2006 á Madrid, j’ai découvert le travail de Maurizio Savini, sculpteur qui présentait un crocodile taille réelle réalisé avec des chewing-gums roses. Il utilise cette matière pour créer tous types de sculptures, mais dans le cas de la représentation d’une espèce sauvage comme le crocodile, son oeuvre prend une autre signification. Elle est symptomatique de la représentation des espèces reléguées à un simple produit de consommation inutile, le chewing-gum par excellence. Malheureusement les espèces en voie de disparition trouvent leur substitut dans des logos mercantiles et tous types de produits de consommation. pour ne siter qu’un exemple, il existe aujourd’hui bien plus de “Jaguars” à quatre roues et de chaussures “Puma” que de vrais êtres vivants de cette espèce.