I like sailing and it is reasonably green. It is a lot more fun than flying.
As for flying, I am a sinner. I have cut down a lot, more for the sake of my own health rather than the planet¹s, so I don¹t fly every week or two anymore. But I still fly about once a month, with two or three long-hauls a year. What can I do? Stop showing art? Shift my practice from installation to online work only to some extent I have done that already? Quit all my responsibilities that require me to be physically present somewhere else? What is the carbon footprint of using Skype? Massive server-farms probably have footprints similar to airports. Has anyone done a comparative analysis on this? Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art s.bi...@eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ si...@littlepig.org.uk www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: Pall Thayer <pallt...@gmail.com> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:41:03 +0000 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge Being stuck on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic makes this one a bit tough for me too. I will however promise never to sail for art as I've never found the ocean's sense of balance particularly appealing. best r. Pall Thayer On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Michael Szpakowski <szp...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi Ruth > pretty much my every breath is dedicated to trying to blag an art related trip outside Europe so I don't think I can do this one, or at least not until I've pulled that off. However I am happy to promise *never, ever* to drive anywhere in pursuit of my art... > warmest wishes > michael > > > --- On Sun, 4/12/09, Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> wrote: > > > From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge > To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 6:07 PM > > > Thanks Karen and Dimos for joining us so quickly and for setting longer pledge deadlines; ) > > For those who'd like to join us but have tickets already booked for art-flights before 26th April, check out the comments:- > - Karen's pledge has a 10th May as its deadline http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart2 > - Dimos Dimitriou has 15th May http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart3 > > Cheers > Ruth > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ruth Catlow <ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org> > Reply-To: ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org, NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] We won't fly for art : Take the Pledge > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:16:35 +0100 > > We won't fly for art for six months > but only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge by 26th April 2009 > http://www.pledgebank.com/wewontflyforart > - Marc and Ruth > > > We will not take an aeroplane for the sake of art. For the next 6 months we will find other ways to visit and participate in exhibitions, fairs, conferences, meetings, residencies. We will not fly for inspiration, nor to appreciate, buy or sell art. > > But only if 6 others will do the same AND replicate this pledge. > > This pledge is designed for exponential growth so if you persuade another 6 people to do the same, within a year you could be one of millions of people changing the way the artworld works. So sign up, create a replica pledge and share your own experiences, observations and arguments towards reducing art flights. Post a link to it in the comment box so others can find their way to it. > > This is a public art experiment in the de-escalation of carbon-fuelled, high altitude, high-velocity, global art careering. For six months we choose to cover less physical distance, move more slowly between destinations, to look futureward with more attention to the view from the ground and the network, for ways to connect with others around the world. > > Who can sign up to this pledge? Any individual involved in the arts: artist (in the broadest sense), curator, art administrator, art appreciator, gallerist, art critic, art historian, art academic, art technician, art security, art transporter etc. Whether you currently fly for art 50 times a year or never, your engagement will change things by making your position in the artworld visible and by offering an alternative perspective. If you work with others you may need to completely revise your schedules and budgets and lobby for the right not to fly. > > This is to light the blue touch paper of Gustave Metzger's Reduce Art Flights campaign using the generative and viral capabilities of social networks. We want to know more about the impact of air-flight on the artworld (and beyond). We intuit that abstaining from air flight will motivate and enable people (with more time, money, energy and attention) to relate differently to their own local cultures and to connect more imaginatively to other cultures. > > Inspirations and Observations > > Artwork- 'Reduce Art Flights' by Gustave Metzger, reviewed here http://tinyurl.com/cnv44r > > Sustainable Development- Social science on the environmental impact of economic growth > 'Why Politicians Dare Not Limit Economic Growth' by Tim Jackson http://tinyurl.com/6784zw > > Investigative Journalism - What can we do to stop climate change? > Heat (2006) by George Monbiot, summarised and reviewed here http://tinyurl.com/devyax > Monbiot's Guardian blog http://tinyurl.com/dcew6o > > Plane Stupid Campaign- 'bringing the aviation industry down to earth' > http://www.planestupid.com/ > > More Art and Ecology Links- http://delicious.com/ruthc/ecology+art > > DIWOlogue- http://diwologue.net/blog/?p=38 > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ***************************** Pall Thayer artist http://www.this.is/pallit ***************************** _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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