GROUNDWORKS: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art

was organized by the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon. The exhibition, catalogue and associated conference seeked to clarify the role of artists in questions of nature and culture by addressing questions of policy, efficacy and impact when artists work within a social, ecological and political context. The exhibition presented artworks that are, in effect, case studies in social, ecological change. This will be interpreted in terms of new ideas in dialogic aesthetics, as well as in terms of impact and efficacy at a local level.

This exhibition and conference integrated more established practitioners with emerging groups in the United States, England, Austria, Africa, Japan and Argentina.

Exhibiting artists included:

Artists & Collectives:

•  3 Rivers 2nd Nature team,
• Ala Plastica,
• Navjot Altaf,
• Christine Brill & Jon Kline,
• Jackie Brookner,
• Stephanie Flom,
• Helen Mayer, Harrison & Newton Harrison,
• Walter Hood & Alma Dusolier,
• Huit Facettes Abdoulaye Ndoye,
• Ichi Ikeda,
• Constance & Tom Merriman,
• A. Laurie Palmer,
• Park Fiction,
• Platform,
• Ann Rosenthal,
• Susan Steinman & Suzanne Lacy,
• WochenKlausur

with a New Media Component: Agricola De Cologne, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Processing, Christina McPhee, Amy Franceschini/Free Soil, Lillian Ball, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Aviva Rahmani.