Guest Editorial Consultant Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty Assistant Editor Krystle Ahmadyar FEATURED ARTIST This issue proudly honors BETSY DAMON, a first-generation feminist performance artist and influential environmental art role model. From China to Pittsburg,...
Editor's Note: Japanese art writer and publisher Hiroko Shimizu's essay is in two parts. The first part is a brief overview of her country's nuclear issues and its artists working with these issues, both post-Hiroshima and post-Fukushima (site of the...
'Now we are all sons of bitches.' - Test director Kenneth Bainbridge to J. Robert Oppenheimer, while watching the first atomic bomb test 'It is dark disaster that brings the light.' - Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster I. ARCHIVE THROUGH TRACKING THE...
PROLOGUE SHOPPING IN MY LOCAL CO-OP MARKET, contemplating the purchase of some wild salmon, I ask the friendly counterman if he knows the fish's origin. 'Alaska,' he replies. 'Are there tests being done on the fish?' I continue. 'For what?' he asks innocently....
Dedicated to my brother, Joseph Jeremiah Lynch, March 26, 1952 - July 25, 2005. INTRODUCTION IN CONTEMPLATING SEVEN DECADES OF the detrimental effects nuclear technology has had on our global landscape and the enormous consequences it may have on our very existence,...
INTRODUCTION ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES IS driving with my parents through Los Angeles and spotting a bomb shelter on a front lawn. I remember duck and cover exercises in junior high school, and checking where bomb shelter signs were posted in my...
INTRODUCTION TEN YEARS AFTER CHERNOBYL, IN 1996, reports by NGOs on the aftermath of the disaster were prepared for TV and other media, but the only data released was from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) together with WHO (World Health Organization)—a...
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WEAD IS PLEASED TO HONOR Heléne Aylon as Issue #5 Feature Artist. A dedicated peace eco-activist, staunch feminist and inspirational ritual performance artist, Helene has worked more than 40 years on conceptual artworks to...
'Dear Ms. Pineda, Thank you for writing your fearsome, enlightening book DEVIL'S TANGO. We here in the states and the people of Japan and the whole world are fortunate that you responded to your dying friend's request.' TURNING 80 Turning 80 this fall represents...
In the 1950s, Major Hank Henry was one of the top fighter-bomber pilots in the United States Air Force, and a member of the 4925th Test Group (Atomic). At the group´s 1986 reunion, he mounted one of "his" nuclear weapons, the casing for a 500-kiloton atomic...
On April 5th 2012 Parsons The New School for Design in NYC sponsored a day-long feminist conference titled 'Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views.' It was organized by painter and writer, Mira Schor, Associate Teaching Professor in the MFA Fine...
INTRODUCTION Artists have the ability to manifest images that give face and voice to consequences of both action and inaction that affect us all. Such is the continuing debate over use and abuse of atomic power/energy (safe and sustainable vs. dangerous and...
I. MINDSHIFT POST-FUKUSHIMA THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER HAS caused me some mindshifts. Especially about what works and what doesn't when attempts are made to engage art with activism. And if (or when) encouraging activism through art, to shut down...
I. THE CAMOUFLAGE AND CONCEALMENT OF CELLULAR TOWERS WITH A FLAWLESS BLUE SKY AND HEAT bouncing off its parched desert backdrop an awkwardly straight and unusually tall saguaro cactus conceals a cellular phone tower. These hidden towers, also referred to as stealth...
INTRODUCTION I'VE BEEN EXPLORING THE ABOVE QUESTION THROUGH many lenses my entire professional life. From the personal to the political, I've worked to learn how art can be an effective means for engagement and enlightenment - all while maintaining the highest...
INTRODUCTION LOCATED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center, the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program is a unique initiative which provides artists with studio space, a stipend, and access to materials in the public dump...
INTRODUCTION Camille Seaman is a TED (1) Fellow, award winning photographer who travels to the ends of the earth--the most frozen polar regions, to photograph the lives of icebergs as they calf, float, change shape and appear to vanish. Far from seeing...
I. CREATING A PRISON STUDIO IN 1984 I ENTERED THE WORLD OF A WOMAN'S prison- as an art teacher. The first class I taught was drawing and that first night 23 women inmates showed up and sat at card tables set up in a hallway of California...
INTRODUCTION GILBERT FOWLER WHITE, CALLED "THE MOST renowned geographer internationally of the twentieth century,' was my father. The Flood Level Marker public art project described here is a tribute to Gilbert's conviction that controlling and bending...
INTRODUCTION IN FEBRUARY OF 2010, AN ARTICLE APPEARED IN WIRED Magazine on the further militarization of bioengineering. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) included an item in its 2011 budget for the creation of a militarized...