Friends of Project NML at The New School University, Liz Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse have established Extreme Media Studies, a project of smudge studio inc. a non-profit media arts studio.

Their project, Testing Ground, takes the contemporary intersections of art and science as its point of departure. It explores how these intersections can lend new and urgently needed modes of creative human response to land use in the American Southwest.

Jump in and join Extreme Media Studies for live blog from the Nevada Museum of Art's "Art + Environment" conference.  After the conference, Extreme Media Studies will select new ideas and perspectives generated there and take them "on the road" to explore sites that have been, or presently are, places where humans have "tested out" their relationality with landscape and land use. By extending ideas generated at the conference "into the field," we will test out what they make possible and thinkable.