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TraceProduct.Info exhibiting at the Spark Festival
TraceProduct.info is a prototype for an in-store, retail-wide system for displaying information on grocery product backgrounds at point-of-sale.
Exhibiting Sept. 29-Oct.2 at the Spark Festival.
Straw Bale Installation at MN Landscape Arboretum
A straw-bale bench and accompanying info-graphic is on exhibit all summer at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. As part of the Powerhouse Plants exhibit showcasing the super-human powers of plants.
Straw Bale bench with information graphic
Entitled ‘Waves of [Multifunctional] Grain,’ this graphic installation shows the life-cycle of grain crops like wheat, barley and rye – and how the waste product from the production of these food-grains (the straw) can be used as a local and sustainable building material.
With the information graphic, we wanted to communicate the potential for a closed-loop system inherent within this plant’s life-cycle: We grow a crop, eat the grain, and can use the waste straw for building and insluation. A perfect cycle.
INFO-GRAPHIC SHOWS THE PROCESS AND BENEFITS
Grocery Project at Art-A-Whirl
A work-in-progress of the Grocery project is showing at Art-A-Whirl May 14-16.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS FLIER
The installation will display a prototype of a system to trace the origins of grocery purchases at the point-of-sale.
Preview:
Grocery tracking project-in-progress installation
Tracing a lunchtime grocery store purhase
In Development: And in-store tracking system that will map a customer’s produce, meat and dairy purchases. An accompanying online portal will allow deeper browsing into the background of the product’s origin.
“Designing Our Way Out” at MCAD
Arlene Birt will present April 22 at Pecha Kucha night in a joint MCAD/American Swedish Institute event on Earth Day.
Bush Fellowship Finalist
Arlene Birt is named as a finalist for the 2010 Bush Fellowship.
Water Rights Exhibition
The ‘Drinking Water Cycle’ glasses are on part of the ‘Water Rights’ exhibition at MCAD gallery 215 now through March 21. The glasses are part of ‘The Water Project’.
Measuring & Communicating Life Cycle course online
Registration is open for Sustainability: Measuring and Communicating Life Cycle online course through MCAD’s Sustainability program – taught by Arlene Birt.
This course teaches methods of communicating sustainability to consumers in an engaging, visual way – in order to help people understand the sustainability (or lack thereof) of products, and establish a personal connection to products’ environmental impacts.
More information on Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s website.
Older News
2009
9.Dec.09 Arlene Birt named Artist in Residence at MEDEA in Malmö, Sweden for Fall 2010.
22.Dec.09 Arlene Birt selected for the 2010 Art(ists) on the Verge fellowship for a project on Visualizing Grocery Impacts.
22.Oct.09 short presentation for Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design launch party at MCAD.
07.Oct.09 "Water Cycle for Life" design selected for production by Felissimo and Design 21.
22.July.09 presenting at Give & Take.
Arlene presented 18 – 20 June.09 at Data Designed for Decisions. A joint OECD and International Institute for Information Design conference in Paris.
Arlene presented ‘Background Stories’ at New Media Meeting 4 in Norrköping, Sweden May.09.
Arlene collaborating with the Interactive Institute (Sweden).
On shelves now: Arlene contributed to Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design.
Dec.08 – May.09 Background Stories on view in the exhibit, Tourism: Spaces of Fiction, at the Barcelona Design Museum.
Arlene presented ‘Designing for Sustainability’ on Earth Day, April.09 at AIGA Minnesota’s Sustainability Retreat.
Malmo MEDEA – New Media Artist Residency
Arlene Birt to be artist in residence at MEDEA Malmö in Fall 2010, where she will collaboratively develop an interactive information design project to help people experience their social and environmental footprints: by making the ‘stories’ of these impacts visible and interactive – in the context of the city of Malmö.
More details announced on their facebook page.
Visualizing Grocery Impacts – Artist Fellowship
Arlene Birt is selected for the 2010 Art(ists) On the Verge fellowship program for a project on Visualizing Grocery Impacts:
Visualizing Grocery Impacts is a data-driven and interactive installation that will help individuals better understand how their daily purchases have global social and environmental impact. In an installation which mimics a super-market, products with custom labels can be collected from the shelves by visitors, and scanned with a barcode reader that will project interactive and visual information on the productʼs background impacts (including global, ecological, political, social and cultural impacts) onto a nearby wall. The installation will provide an innovative approach to understanding sustainability: as an intersection between digital data and the physical world.
The project will be developed Jan – Sept 2010, and exhibited in October.
Art(ists) On the Verge (AOV2) is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory.
