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PROJECTS
Dying for the Other
As part of The Cost of Life project series. Supported by the Creative Capital Foundation.
Interview at registromx
The Life Garden. As part of The Cost of Life project series. Supported by the Creative Capital Foundation.
BOOK
Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience. MIT Press; Leonardo Book Series. ed., Beatriz da Costa & Kavita Philip.
WORKSHOP
Delicious Apocethary [forthcoming, spring 2012]
The Life Garden (as part of the Cost of Life project series) is on view at Eyebeam in New York.
Pigeonblogger on view at Norman Y Mineta San Jose International Airport as part of Small Wonders June, 2010 - June, 2012
REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS I LIKE
The Place of Art in the Age of Biotechnological Reproducibility. (pdf) [Review of Tactical Biopolitics in "BioSocieties."]
Processes, Issues AIR: Toward Reticular Politics. (pdf) [Full fledged article about Preemptive Media's and my work in "Australian Humanities Review."]
Interview with Beatriz da Costa. (pdf) [by Alessandro Ludovico, "Neural Magazine."]
COLLABORATIVE
Preemptive Media is a collaborative operating at the nexus of art, activism and technology.
BEATRIZ DA COSTA
Beatriz da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Los Angeles. She works at the intersection of art, politics, engineering and the life sciences.
AIR 2006-08
AIR was a public, social experiment in which people were invited to use Preemptive Media's portable air monitoring devices to explore
their neighborhoods and urban environments for pollution and fossil fuel burning hotspots.
Participants or "carriers" were able to see pollutant levels in their current locations, as well as simultaneously view measurements from the other AIR devices
in the network. An on-board GPS unit and digital compass, combined with a database of known pollution sources such as power plants and heavy industries, allowed
carriers to see their distance from polluters as well. The AIR devices regularly transmitted data to a central database allowing for real time data visualization on
this website.
While AIR was designed to be a tool for individuals and groups to self identify pollution sources, it also served as a platform to discuss energy politics and their
impact on environment, health and social groups in specific regions.
The project launched September 14, 2006, in New York City. A preliminary worskhop was held on June 24. Since 2006, Preemptive Media has exhibited and demonstrated AIR in Long Beach, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Australia; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and San Francisco, CA.
view original project website: AIR website
AIR received funding and support from Eyebeam in New York and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.