An article about Food Font was written by Cliff Bellamy and was printed in the Herald Sun newspaper. The article is called Playing With Food- With a Purpose and talks about the inspiration behind Food Font, the project itself, and about past projects. . You can read it on the Herald Sun website.
Links:
Food With a Purpose – www.heraldsun.com
This Spring the Where Do You Give? National Design Competition asked designers and to translate the Jewish tradition of giving to others, tzedakah‘s meaning into a compelling and contemporary design. The design contest explored ways that in current times people can give to others and how the values behind our giving can inspire us to expand our universe of obligation around where and how we give.
The contest had 3 categories which included Interactive/ Web, “Out-of-the-Box’” and Tzedakah box category. All of the winning entries show creative ways that philanthropy can work in our increasingly interconnected, global, and technologically accelerated world. The winning designs, including my Hand + Heart Game design that was a winter in the Interactive/ Web category will be in a show that will travel across the United States this year.
Next week – on June 20th at 92YTribeca the show will be exhibited. There also is a panel discussion and event about the current and future state of giving which includes Rebecca Stone of the American Jewish World (AJWS), Karen Pittelman, author of Resource Generation’s Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use it for Social Change, Ryan Clifford, a judge of the contest and Faculty Director of the MICA Design Coalition. Sasha Feldstein, who works in the department of education and community engagement of AJWS is the facilitator for the event.
If you are in New York next week – get a ticket for the event, and stop by to see the exhibition at 92YTribeca. It might get you thinking about how you give to others.
Links:
Tickets for the June 20th Event at 92YTribeca
Kristen Baumlier’s work spans the full spectrum of interdisciplinary media, including photography, performance, interactive installation, video and audio works. In 2005 Baumlier began performing as the “The Petroleum Pop Princess” as a pop icon engaging viewers in debate over materialism and oil consumerism. On July 4, 2010 she released her album Deplete Me which features nine songs about conservation, energy, and petroleum.
Her videos have screened in New Zealand, Serbia, England, and in the U.S. and her work has shown at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH, Hotcakes Gallery in Milwaukee, WI and the UNI Gallery of Art. In 2009, Baumlier began researching food, health, technology, and food systems and is currently developing new work that presents questions about food.