ecoarttechCo-founded in 2005 by Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint
EcoArtTech works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art
that explores the environmentality of modern life.
featured works
Eclipse
A user driven, artwork-application that alters and corrupts networked photostreams of United States national and state parks based on real-time Air Quality Index (particle pollution data). Commissioned by Turbulence.org Launch Work >>
Environmental Risk Assessment
Rover - AT, 2008
(ERAR-AT) A solar-powered, all-terrain mobile station that collects real-time risk data relative to its local coordinates. More >>
critiques of nature and wilderness as viable categories to ground environmental ethics.discussions of whether human use of technology is an ecological fault or a strength.the interaction of thedigital and the natural. the re-imagination of what constitutes technology. nature and culture'sinseparability. technology’s mediation of environmental ethics. experiences of the local in the context of globality. technology's systemization during modernization.historical and cultural constructions ofland and space. the relation of new media technologies to humans’ primordial use of technics(i.e. tools or skills that transform raw materials and/or produce comfort and pleasure).
This work is made possible in part by contributions from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), K2 Family Foundation, SolarOne Green Energy, Arts & Education Center, Colgate University and the Paul A. Garrison Faculty Research Fellowship, the Pine Lake Environmental Campus of Hartwick College, and a Turbulence Net Art Comission. All canines featured in these works are rescued Akitas brought into our inter-species family via the awesome people at Akita Rescue of Western New York.