Projects

02011 – anon

The first BLUEMIND Summit was held at the California Academy of Sciences on June 2nd, 02011. The event brought leading neuroscientists, futurists, artists and citizens to explore our Brains on Ocean. The aim of the conference was to bring this new approach to millions of people through livecast (though the California Academy of Sciences live feed), create collaboration between science/neuroscience and citizens, and provide the press a new way to look at the issues of oceans and biospheric health. Major sponsors included Nautica, The Ocean Foundation, Sheraton, and others. The recorded livecast can be seen at http://mindandocean.org/ June 2nd, from 9am – 5pm PST USA. BLUEMiND 2 is already in planning process. Thank you to all of those who attended, spoke and viewed this remarkable event. LIVEBLUE!

The Blue Marble Project: Sarah is collaborating with Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences on The Blue Marble Project. The Blue Marble Project is born from the wildly popular, viral 2010 Blue Marbles Initiative, where millions of blue marbles have been shared (through word of mouth) around the world with millions of people in celebration of the planet. The Blue Marble Project’s aim is to pass a blue marble through every person’s hand on earth – spread gratitude for the planet – and support a global, physical AND social media based movement.  The project will also explore and share the way neuroscience informs our connection to our biosphere–our one blue marble–to help inspire people to LiVEBLUE. http://bluemarbles.org

(Photo credit: Fabien Cousteau — http://www.plantafish.org/)

 

02010 – 02011

Blue Marble Project (More above)

EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation: Sarah was a producer for the celebration of the great biologist Dr. EO Wilson, with guest Harrison Ford. The event supported the announcement of the formation of the PEN/EO Wilson literary award for science and the launch of the Biodiversity Foundation’s web based biology book for children.http://www.eowilson.org/

“Diary of a Young Boat” – site specific installation: Sarah is collaborating with Ame Hoch, installation artist, painter and writer. The project is in development and is slated to launch internationally in 2011.

“The Watchman’s Rattle” Author, Rebecca Costa: Sarah has executive produced events for author Rebecca Costa, and the launch of her book “The Watchman’s Rattle” a breakthrough book on evolution and the brain. The book has been endorsed by Sir. Richard Branson, Tina Brown, EO Wilson and others.

Plastic Century: An installation for the California Academy of Science, June 3rd and June 10th Plastic Century is an interactive installation created for the California Academy of Sciences that explores the relationship between plastic, people, and the environment over the 100 years since the birth of Jacques Cousteau. The installation was designed and created by Sarah Kornfeld, Wallace J. Nichols, Jake Dunagan, and Stuart Candy, a hybrid art-science-futures collaboration with an installation that includes plastics within unusual objects throughout the museum. The project asks patrons to experience first hand the impact that plastics are having on our bodies and our ecology–to see and feel what one plastic century has wrought, and to consider life in the next one.

Plastic Century and the team were selected to be in residency at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) in San Francisco, California. (GAFFTA) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to building social consciousness through digital culture. Guided by the principles of openness, collaboration, and resource sharing, the programs promote creativity at the intersection of art, design, sound, and technology. A conduit for multidisciplinary creative exchange, GAFFTA supports the creation and diffusion of works that engage and inspire audiences, and offer meaningful contributions to the global movement that is shaping our collective experience.

02004 – Present

Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells, a multimedia installation by A.M Hoch, launched the opening of the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine in 2004. Working in collaboration with Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Andrea Schell, and dotsperinch, Hoch created her own kind of theater of memory, combining video, sound, painting and sculpture in a deeply personal environment. The piece explores family and memory on the micro and the macro levels, using images of cellular mitosis as a recurring metaphor for the struggle for individuation with the family. Mirroring the way our memories lodge in our bodies, our cells, and our psyches, video images and sound and text are embedded in the specific architecture of the installation space.

In April 2007, Mitosis: Formation of Daughter Cells was re-envisioned and adapted for the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, in Spoleto, Italy, produced with the support of LaMama International, BvNW Group, and others. This incarnation of Mitosis will use materials and technologies befitting the architecture of Spoleto’s museum of modern art, and was created with the technical direction of Andrea Paciotto, and was chosen to represent Italy in the theatre category of the Venice Biennale, 2007. The piece continues to evolve and is being developed for the United States.

For more information please visit: http://www.bvnwgroup.com/project_nucleus/mitosis.html

02002-02005

The National Art and Technology Network: The New York based, multidisciplinary cultural center, The Kitchen, engaged in a three year research project to study the emerging forms and integration of art/technology and science. Sarah worked with the Kitchen to review the findings, create a systemic plan to create the network, support their development strategies and create their advisory board. Individuals and organizations included Laurie Anderson, Michael Naimark, MIT, Christina Yang, Paul Kaiser, Bill T. Jones, EyeBeam and others. The program was supported by the Ford Foundation.

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