From sustag@BETA.TRICITY.WSU.EDUMon Nov 7 09:38:46 1994 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 05:50:03 -0800 From: "Tom Hodges (moderated newsgroup)" To: Multiple recipients of list SUSTAG-L Subject: PIGVISION; call for interest (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 16:50:23 +1000 From: Raymond Rohner To: SUSTAG@beta.tricity.wsu.edu Subject: PIGVISION; call for interest PIGVISION is a collaborative project involving artists and scientists. Supported by Sunday Hill Research Station, its main focus is the interface between art and agriculture/animal husbandry. Ever since the early history of human civilisation, art and agriculture have been closely associated with each other. The relationship is very wide-ranging. At one extreme it is, for example, concerned with ritual performances during harvest celebrations and at the other extreme we find van Gogh's paintings of rural scenes. An increasing number of contemporary artists take the land and/or the growth of plants as their subject-matter. These would include: David Nash, Sjoerd Buisman, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton and Andy Goldsworthy. Part of PIGVISION's project is to develop a WWW site. This site will not only provide project related information and links to other sites, but will eventually become a creative meeting place for people with similar interest. PIGVISION's WWW project is structured according to Sunday Hill's site plan. You move through a virtual space with features partly borrowed from the real site and partly adapted to the needs of the project. There is a lot to do and we need your help. For our WWW library we are particularly interested in: * artists dealing creatively with agriculture * agricultural/animal scientists interested in creativity, intuition, imagination, etc. * farming people interested in art We would also like to update our gateway to other WWW sites. These can be sites dealing generally with art or agriculture only. Please let us know about your projects, essays, lectures, WWW service etc. The URL address is: http://toolshed.artschool.utas.edu.au/PigVision/pigvision.html The email address is: rrohner@postoffice.utas.edu.au ---------- Regards Raymond Rohner