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Teatime with Soil Kin: Artist Talk with Amy Youngs

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Stop by the Hopkins Hall Lobby on Thursday, November 14th from 2:30-3:30pm for teatime with OSU professor Amy Youngs and her magnificent worm bin. During this event, we will both learn about and participate in the circle of soil life by hearing Amy talk about her artistic practice with soil creatures, and offering our teabags to the worm bin as food. Teas and cups will be provided. This event will be occurring concurrently with the Ohio Soil Health Week Exhibition, Those Who Feed Us, located in the Hopkins Lobby as well.

Microbial Fuel Cell Workshop with Ken Rinaldo on November 15th

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Academy Emeritus Professor Ken Rinaldo will lead a workshop on making a microbial a fuel cell in the Living Art and Ecology Lab in the Department of Art; November 15 2PM-4PM, room #340 Hopkins Hall, for soil week. In this workshop Rinaldo will present artists, and architects that have employed microbial fuel cells (MFCs) into their creative work. He will review theories of how Microbial Fuel Cells function, offering hope for a future powered by microbes. Together the attendees will create their own MFC fuel cells using living soil. In this two-hour workshop they measure voltages of their MFCs, using multimeters while exploring the promise for green energy technologies. All attendees must bring two sealable plastic containers for their MFC & other materials will be provided. No experience is necessary. Seats will be limited to the first 14 attendees.

About the artist:

Ken Rinaldo is internationally recognized for interactive bio robotic art installations and moving image works. Rinaldo’s work develops hybrid ecologies with humans, machines, plants, and animals, by constructing idealized social, biological, and machine symbionts. His work appears in 100s of books and art reviews, traveling to over 35 countries, and in private and museum collections. https://www.kenrinaldo.com/

 

 

 

Those Who Feed Us: Open Call for Art

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Open call for art flyer for the show "those who feed us" in celebration of ohio soil health week 2024

Join the Living Art and Ecology Lab in celebrating Ohio Soil Health Week through this open call for work! This short exhibition of juried and invited artists seeks to appreciate those who feed us through building and maintaining our soils. We invite you to submit work that explores soil as community: from microbes and mycelium, to plants and people, and beyond. Artists working in all mediums are welcome to apply.

Applications are due by October 20th at 11:59pm.  Link to apply, and additional information on the show, can be found here.