Tag Archives: Trash

How to picture two tons of waste? Trashy theaters of proof.

Basurama (trash-o-rama), a non profit organization based in Spain, is preparing a public waste audit for MIT’s Media Lab Festival on April 20th. Their unique point of intervention that goes above and beyond a regular waste audit and the goal of quantification and classification of waste,  is how to represent two tons of waste. Basurama […]
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Recycled Artist in Residency campaign coming to a close, but residencies to kick off in earnest

RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) is a young yet accomplished project located within a construction waste recycling center in Philadelphia. They have twelve hours left in a fundraising campaign to open the trash-stream residency program to applications from artists in the Spring of 2013.  They hope to hire staff with the money and become a […]
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Surveying Waste and Capital @ Trade School, NYC

I’ve posted about the classes at Trade School before. It’s a barter-based, pop-up educational initiative that started in New York City and how has versions all over the world. It is open to anyone, and students “pay” their instructor based on what needs the instructor has listed: baked goods, editorial help, rolling pins, and help […]
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Registration open for TRASH Postgraduate Conference at the University of Sussex

TRASH is a one day postgraduate conference at the University of Sussex, and a curated evening of art, film and music at The Basement in central Brighton. It is organised and partly funded by Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (SCCS). £10/£5 student. Register here. Evening of art, film and music – Thursday 13th September To […]
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