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Ala Plastica is an arts and environmental organization based in Argentina that developsprojects that can be described as public art or interventionist art. The main concern isto link the artist’s way of thinking and working with the development of projects in the social and environmental realm. Since 1991 Ala Plastica has developed a range of non-conventional artworks, focused on local and regional problems, and in close contact and collaboration with other artists, scientists and environmental groups. Ala Plastica works bio-regionally, within the nation of Argentina, as well as internationally in relationship to other transformative arts practitioners. The members of Ala Plastica are Silvina Babich and Alejandro Meitin.

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Not A Cornfield is a living sculpture in the form of a field of corn. The corn itself, a powerful icon for millennia over large parts of Central America and beyond, can serve as a potent metaphor for those of us living in this unique megalopolis. This work follows a rich legacy of radical art during the 20th century on a grand scale. I intend this to be an event that aims at giving focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about where it's energetic and historical center is. With this project I have undertaken to clean 32 acres of brownfield and bring in more than 1,500 truck loads of earth from elsewhere in order to prepare this rocky and mixed terrain for the planting of a million seeds. This art piece redeems a lost fertile ground, transforming what was left from the industrial era into a renewed space for the public. The California Department of Parks and Recreation is currently designing the historical park this site will become. This design process has taken several years so far and is a difficult process both because of the many communities adjacent to the site they would all like to serve and because of limited funding. By bringing attention to this site throughout the Not A Cornfield process we will also bring forth many questions about the nature of urban public space, about historical parks in a city so young and yet so diverse. About the questions of whose history would a historical park in the city center actually describe, and about the politics of land use and it's incumbent inequities. Indeed, "Not A Cornfield" is about these very questions, polemics, arguments and discoveries. It is about redemption and hope. It is about the fallibility of words to create productive change. Artists need to create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy.

-Lauren Bon, July 20, 2005

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The bulbo collective has been exploring the possibilities of exchange and collaboration since it began in 2002. Each of the project's efforts, whether it has been a documentary, magazine or web stream, implied that people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, became a part of a creative process. This has supported the formation of a network which has exceeded the collective's expectations, and which contributes to new forms of enriching our communities through constantly shifting perspectives. bulbo's work emphasizes the importance and necessity of creative and innovative projects that use media with constructive aims and nurture's other ways of understanding the place where we live. One of bulbo's interest has been life in the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. Developed as an offshoot of Galatea Audio/Visual, a production company dedicated to the communication, production and promotion of audio and visual arts in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. bulbo has intervened media with bulbo TV (in all of Mexico); bulbo press magazine; disco bulbo record label; and the bulbo broadcast web streams.The bulbo collective has been exploring the possibilities of exchange and collaboration since it began in 2002. Each of the project's efforts, whether it has been a documentary, magazine or web stream, implied that people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, became a part of a creative process. This has supported the formation of a network which has exceeded the collective's expectations, and which contributes to new forms of enriching our communities through constantly shifting perspectives. bulbo's work emphasizes the importance and necessity of creative and innovative projects that use media with constructive aims and nurture's other ways of understanding the place where we live. One of bulbo's interest has been life in the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. Developed as an offshoot of Galatea Audio/Visual, a production company dedicated to the communication, production and promotion of audio and visual arts in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. bulbo has intervened media with bulbo TV (in all of Mexico); bulbo press magazine; disco bulbo record label; and the bulbo broadcast web streams.

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CoLabART is a more than thirty-year collaboration of the painter, Lynn Small and her husband, the photographic artist, Dennis Paul. Exhibiting under the moniker, D. PAUL/SMALL, they have fused the processes and seamlessly layered the aesthetics of painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. Always at the intersection of art and technology, in the early 1990s the couple birthed viewart.com, one of the first artist websites. While integrating the new digital dialectic, their work began to incorporate additional processes as they created multimedia, site-specific installations that featured digital video, original, holosonic SoundScapes and varied evolving new media concepts. Individually and collaboratively, the couple's artwork in the Earth Stains, Landsat, Love Canal, and LightScape portfolios has embraced the spirituality and preciousness of the land and the concept of the vanishing landscape, as well as the individual’s responsibility for its well being. This reverence for all Creation has produced an intriguing, diverse and often-mysterious pathway as manifested in other bodies of work such as the Sufi Cosmic Mass Celebration, Spirit Guides of the Southwest, and the mystical religious iconography of the Kabbalah and the powers of the Hebrew alphabet – Letters of Foundation.

 Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.
 Berthold Brecht

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Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, non-profit media arts organization located in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.The organization provides equal and affordable access to film/video education and resources via: a community microcinema and meeting space free and nominal cost media arts education programs a comprehensive small format film equipment and service department a touring film festival showcasing local established and student filmmakers.

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"Public Fruit" is the concept behind the Fallen Fruit, an activist art project which started as a mapping of all the public fruit in our neighborhood. We ask all of you to contribute your maps so they expand to cover the United States and then the world. We encourage everyone to harvest, plant and sample public fruit, which is what we call all fruit on or overhanging public spaces such as sidewalks, streets or parking lots. We believe fruit is a resource that should be commonly shared, like shells from the beach or mushrooms from the forest. Fallen Fruit has moved from mapping to planning fruit parks in under-utilized areas. Our goal is to get people thinking about the life and vitality of our neighborhoods and to consider how we can change the dynamic of our cities and common values.

-Fallen Fruit is David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young

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Natalie Jeremijenko, who runs a research lab in the art department at the University of California, San Diego, is changing the way we think about technology. In her Feral Robotic Dog project, she works with teams of high-school students to take apart toy robots and rebuild their physiques and behavior. Armed with pollution sensors, a lowered center of gravity, and all-terrain wheels, the Feral Robotic Dogs head out across the landscape in search of toxins. Released into landfills and urban areas from Arizona to Ireland, the dogs are programmed to seek out some of the same pollutants used in their own manufacture, drawing attention to the toxic nature of high-tech industry. Whereas most consumer robots are designed to dance, yap, or vacuum the rug, the Feral Robotic Dogs are equipped with a social agenda.

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Tom Reddockis a sound artists, completing his first sonic sculpture, "Journey Through The Inner City", in 1981, then realeased his first CD "Big Buddha" in 2003.

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Shannon Spanhake’s work takes the form of public interventions and tangible media installations. It investigates the transformative potential of new technologies and reconfigured social ecologies to address issues embedded within information politics, popular culture, and geographic/cultural territory. An important part of Spanhake’s artistic strategy is to enable public discourse by providing access to information through the development of alternate modes of articulation in the production of knowledge.

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Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator and free-lance photographer living in San Diego, California. She teaches multimedia and photography courses at San Diego State University. Her first book, “Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005” was published by the Center for American Places (CAP) in 2005.

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Robert Tannen is an artist, urban planner and one of the founders of the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center. He also has been working on the Wetlands Restoration Project, an effort to preserve barrier islands and marshes endangered in South Louisiana.