Study Skill - Task 7

Abstract

We do installation art, installation art; we must first have an idea. Installation art, refers to artists in a particular spatial-temporal environment, have not been in human daily life consumption or consumption of material cultural entities, artistically effective selection, utilization, adaptation, combination, to deduce new display of individual or groups of rich spiritual and cultural meaning of artistic form. Briefly, installation art is "sites + materials + emotion" integrated exhibition art. We do installation art related to the environment, so it is necessary to collect information on environmental issues. Of the environmental problems are due to human activities effects to the surrounding environment resulting from environmental quality changes and the production, life and such changes on human health impacts. Transformation of human natural environment and in the process of creating a social environment, natural environment with its inherent natural laws change. Restriction of the social environment on the one hand the natural environment, with its inherent regularity of movement. Human-environment interaction and ongoing role, environmental issues.
Voice of the earth

1.0  Introduction

Our installation art of this time is doing about voice of the earth.

Global warming is a “natural phenomenon ". Burning of fossil minerals or arising from deforestation and the burning of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, due to the greenhouse gases from the Sun radiation of visible light have a high degree of permeability, and the Earth reflected long wave radiation is highly absorbent, strongly absorbs radiation in the infrared, What used to say the " greenhouse effect ", leading to global warming. The consequences of global warming would global precipitation redistribution, glacier and permafrost melting, and sea-level rise, caused serious harm to both the natural ecosystem balance, more threat to the human food supply and environment. Has been the spot for scientists concerned about global warming, on October 14, 2012, United Kingdom Meteorological Office says global warming has been stopped in 16, rose again hot. Global warming refers to the global temperatures rise. Last more than 100 years, global temperatures have experienced cold-warm-cold-warm two swings on the total look for rising trend. After the 80’s, a significant increase in global temperatures.

                                                                Figure1: Candle Art1

981-1990 0.48 ° c rises in global average temperature of more than 100 years ago. Lead to the main cause of global warming is human in nearly a century, large-scale use of fossil fuels (such as coal , and oil ), discharges large amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. As these greenhouse gases come from solar radiation of visible light (3.8--7.6nm, a shorter wavelength) has a high degree of penetration, and the Earth reflected long wave radiation (infrared) with a highly absorbent, is often called “the greenhouse effect ", leading to global warming.

Why is people burning fossil minerals to produce energy or arising from deforestation and the burning of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere. Intergovernmental Panel on climate change based on climate model projections, by 2100, global temperatures are expected to rise about 1.4-5.8 degrees Celsius (2.5-10.4 Fahrenheit). According to this projection, global temperatures will occur in the last 10,000 years never had a great change, thus the global environment have a potentially significant impact. (From Wikipedia)

                                                                Figure2: Candle Art21.1  Objective

First of all, we are going to research about the environmental issue and installation art.

Second, identifying which environmental issue that is going to be choose. For our group, we are not to choosing a specific environmental issue, we are doing an installation that describes how important the earth is.

Third , applying the message about the environment through an installation art.

1.2  Problem Statement

People must protect the environment, because the environment is deteriorating, our work is the ice is melting, this process will make people find the need to protect the environment, do not let our planet in the future become an ocean.
1.3  Hypothesis

Initial expectation

We expect our installations will have a good effect. It would be very easy to see the problem. Our theme is global warming, so we use old photographs to reflect this theme, plain and simple. We believe that people will be very easy to understand. However, the draft prepared a lot out, it is difficult to get people at a glance Our ​​installation art reflects what environmental issues. So we also need to improve..
1.4  Methodology

1.4.1  Surf the internet                                                                          

 

Figure 3: (Icelandic,2003)

                                              Figure 4: Famous WWF environmental site

1.4.2  photograph

Icelandic Government Panel on Climate Change recently released a report forecasting that the global warming impact of all Icelandic glaciers melting is accelerating, it may be all melted the next century.

 

     Reported that on July 30 this year, the southwestern city of Thingvellir Iceland temperatures up to 27 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature reached Iceland. Iceland over the next 10 years, temperatures will continue to rise year by year, which is to accelerate the direct cause local melting of glaciers.

 

     Researchers Paer Song: glaciers will melt into the sea, causing sea level rise of about 7 meters or so, which would have catastrophic consequences for the world

 

     The Vatnajokull glacier in southeast Iceland is Europe's largest glacier, with a total area of ​​8000 square kilometers, the maximum thickness of 900 m. Currently, this glacier is growing at the speed of one meter per year continued ablation, and this rate is also likely to accelerate. Research estimates show that this glacier once all melted, enough to cover the 50 Icelandic meter of water.

 

     In addition to accelerated melting of glaciers, warming also caused Iceland subtle changes occurred in biological populations. Reported that in the past some of the seabed in southern Iceland fish stocks have now migrated to the north sea. The report also expects the end of this century, there will be 80 kinds of birds first arrived in Iceland no longer biting cold, but not suitable for wheat and pumpkins before growing plants in Iceland where you can also be planted.

In my opinion, we should realize the disappeared islands ,biological and country,we should protect our environment, do not let more things disappear from this earth. (From Wikipedia)

1.4.3  Experiment

1.Figure 5: We will do a place with photo.

2.Figure 6: We will shoot a lot of different skin photos, then print.

3.Figure 7: We put up the photos.

2.0  Literature review

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and lost the 2000 U.S. presidential election despite winning the popular vote. Gore is currently an author and environmental activist. He has founded a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alliance for Climate Protection, and has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism.
                                              
                                                   Figure 8: Book Cover

Our Choice is a 2009 book written by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Originally titled The Path to Survival it follows An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, a companion book to the film An Inconvenient Truth. All profits of the book (printed on 100% recycled paper) go to the Alliance for Climate Protection, which Gore founded in 2006. Newsweek magazine published a feature on Gore and the new book on October 31, 2009, calling it "authoritative, exhaustive, reasoned, erudite, and logical, a textbooklike march through solar and wind power, geothermal energy, biofuels, carbon sequestration, nuclear energy, the potential of forests to soak up carbon dioxide, energy efficiency, and the regulatory tangle that impedes the development of a super-efficient, continent-wide system of transmission lines.

 

 

 3.0  Installation progressWe discuss ideas and mentors. Instructors gave us a lot of opinions, and ultimately we integrated their ideas, decided this installation art ideas.

Figure 9:Production process

Figure 10: Sorting out the photos we have done

Figure 11: The photos posted on the wall

                                        
                                                        Figure 12: Final renderings
4.0  Results
We completed our installation art, the overall results were pretty good. I believe people see this work. Will be infected, you want to cherish and protect our planet. In today's global warming is getting worse, do an installation art to illustrate the importance of global warming harm, and I feel great!
5.0  Conclusions
Instructors agreed we have made this installation art. This works on the subject of global warming, different skin, reflecting the different ethnic origin. Today, global warming, ozone layer thinner, very scary solar radiation hazards, exposure to people every day, is the sun's harmful substance abuse. Cause a variety of skin diseases, people see at first glance would certainly feel very sick, coupled with our explanation, I believe everyone will be touched to know the seriousness of global warming, and thus to protect the environment.
6.0   References
A. Schweitzer forward. Ethics of respect for life. Twentieth century anthology of Western Philosophy of Religion
H. D. Thoreau. Walden
J. Muir was. Summer mountain walk
Lavis. Natural Capitalism