[NetBehaviour] call for contributions

maria miranda maria at out-of-sync.com
Wed Jul 5 09:48:43 CEST 2006


Dear NetBehaviour and fellow breathers,
We'd like to invite you to contribute to our breath collection at  
'Talking About the Weather' Blog.
Is is very easy, just describe your breath in one word or many...
More info about the project is below. Or you could visit the Blog and  
see for yourself.
http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/

If you'd like to contribute to our breath collection email us (hit  
reply) for the login details.
Thanx
maria + norie

About the Project:

"The air you just exhaled has already spread far and wide. The CO2  
from a breath last week may now be feeding a plant on a distant  
continent, or plankton in a frozen sea. In a matter of months all of  
the CO2 you just exhaled will have dispersed around the planet."    
Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers

Talking About the Weather is an ongoing cross media project exploring  
our own response to the terrifying spectre of global climate change.  
Sheer terror at the possibilities that are being talked about led us  
to 'talking about the weather'. The weather, once a safe way for  
strangers to connect, is now fraught with an edge of danger as  
ominous signs of global warming multiply. In this project weathertalk  
is no longer a banal exchange of local weather forecasts, but instead  
we ask people to donate their breath - the breath which they would  
normally use to talk about the weather and the same breath that is  
spread far and wide as described by Tim Flannery.

Working with breath emphasises the dynamic nature of the atmosphere  
and our part in its creation and destruction. As Tim Flannery says,  
every breath you take makes you part of a dynamic system called the  
atmosphere, or the aerial ocean.

During our (July 3-17) new media residency in New Zealand (SCANZ), we  
will be collecting more breath on the streets of New Plymouth. We  
will be exhibiting the breath collections, including your  
contributions, at Govett-Brewster Gallery in New Zealand in mid July,  
so please contribute soon to be part of the breath collection.

http://www.scanz.net.nz/weathertalk/



Who we are:

Out-of-Sync is a collaboration between Australian media artists Maria  
Miranda and Norie Neumark .
For more info see our website:
http://www.out-of-sync.com

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