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.
PARTICIPATE
Conference and live blogging: October 2-5, 2008
Field tests: October 6-17, 2008
With
this project, ExtremeMediaStudies.org joins the Nevada Museum of Art in
actively exploring the question: what urgently needed ways of knowing
become possible when we think and make from the spaces between art and
science, and when we use media creatively to fuse
knowledge-construction with aesthetic experience?
