Being creative in a greenhouse: art and global warming
The world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our planet in a click. But also owing to a phenomenon that evokes dry lands, devastating rains, tsunamis and hurricanes, torrid summers and melting glaciers:...
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| description | The world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our planet in a click. But also owing to a phenomenon that evokes dry lands, devastating rains, tsunamis and hurricanes, torrid summers and melting glaciers: global warming. In the heated argument on this issue with so many people talking, in the past few years also artists have made their rising voice be heard. Artists-popularisers, aware of their role and of the considerable communication potential of the art medium. Because “One salient image, sculpture or event can speak louder than volumes of scientific data”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fcf9d99510e5419abada45d04424a03e2022-12-21T23:00:41ZengSissa MedialabJCOM: Journal of Science Communication1824-20492008-09-0173Being creative in a greenhouse: art and global warmingDonato RamaniThe world, all at once, has become a small world. Not only owing to TV, satellites and the Internet that allow us to jump from side to side of our planet in a click. But also owing to a phenomenon that evokes dry lands, devastating rains, tsunamis and hurricanes, torrid summers and melting glaciers: global warming. In the heated argument on this issue with so many people talking, in the past few years also artists have made their rising voice be heard. Artists-popularisers, aware of their role and of the considerable communication potential of the art medium. Because “One salient image, sculpture or event can speak louder than volumes of scientific data”.http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/03/Jcom0703%282008%29C01/Jcom0703%282008%29C01.pdfSciencetechnologyart and literature |
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| title_short | Being creative in a greenhouse: art and global warming |
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