(0): Multimedia Memorial for the Mountains

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The North Carolina-based advocacy group Appalachian Voices and several other environmental groups have created an archive of photos, satellite images, ...

(1): Calligraphy and the Camera

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Photographer and artist Don Hong-Oai explored life and the environment in China and Vietnam in a way that blended traditional Chinese art with ...

(2): Northern Sounds

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Minimalist composer John Luther Adams first visited Alaska in the mid-1970s, returning over the next few summers to serve as a ...

(3): Cornell’s Little Boxes

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Diane Waldman's Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams  traces the artist's career through the assemblages of found art, toys, and images ...

(4): Documenting Change

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Working closely with grassroots organizations, the Panos Institute's Oral Testimony Programme has created a website that explores the effects of development in rural ...

(5): Filth

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Dust, grit, and grime provide foundations for two very different examinations of progress.  Beginning with the mundane and unpleasant, Joseph ...

(6): History and Light

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  Works by Portland animator and installation artist Rose Bond rely on newspapers, archival collections, and oral histories to develop a sense ...

(7): Air, Sea, and Land

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  In the fall of 2000 Jeremy Wood used a GPS receiver to record the holding pattern of an airliner.  The ...

(8): Wired Smithsonian

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The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History faces the curse of all museums:  limited exhibit space.  With less than five ...

(9): Graphic Inspiration

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Jeni Wightman's interest in the visual representation of data ranges from abstract considerations of how scholars use images to ...

(10): Searchscape

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Searchscapes: Manhattan presents a conceptual map of the city by layering data over the physical and architectural terrain. Juliana ...

(11): The State of the Union

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Political rhetoric and the ebb and flow of language itself are key concerns in democratic societies. The role ...

(12): Lighting the World

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While on sabbatical visiting Nepal's University of Tribhuvan, University of Calgary professor David Irvine-Halliday became concerned about the availability of lighting and its ...

(13): Happy (Belated) Pinhole Day!

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The last Sunday in April is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, an opportunity to participate in a global collaborative art ...

(14): Aquatic Freeware

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The software package Ecopath with Ecosim, available from the University of British Columbia, gives researchers and policy analysts a tool to model ...