“(Re)connecting.earth (02)—Beyond Water” the second Biennial of Art and Urban Nature opens in Geneva (CH). Building on the 2021 urban gardening theme, water ecologies are foregrounded through programming that activates shoreline Lake Geneva sites. Artists including Marie Griesmar , Denim Szram , and Pinar Yoldas (image: An Ecosystem of Excess , 2013-) present works addressing aquatic biodiversity. Of note: the staging of Life Airborne System (1965) and two 1970s works by Hans Haacke .
Ottawa’s Artengine launches the CanCon AV Index (CAVI), a search engine that “fences off sections of YouTube,” isolating videos by 500 Canadian arts organizations. Ambitiously, the project team of Ryan Stec , Najeeba Ahmed , Julie Gendron , and Ashlee Conery scraped 33,000 videos (and metadata)—yielding a treasure trove of lectures, artist talks, and panels. Part alt-interface and part data liberation, CAVI rebuts against “optimizing to be machine-readable and playing the algorithm” (i.e. gambling for atten
Pairing artists and scientists in the Experiments in Art and Technology tradition, “EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY” opens at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger (KBH.G) in Basel (CH). Five artist-scientist duos including Sissel Tolaas & Christina Agapakis , Michelle-Marie Letelier & Karin Pittman , and Zheng Bo & Matthias Rillig articulate ecology and climate research in installation, fashion, and video. “What may, what should, and what must art do?,” write curators Martina Huber and Gianni Jetzer .
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