War and Transformations
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, or The Executions, oil on canvas by Francisco Goya, 1814. Height: 268 cm, Width: 347 cm. Courtesy, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Artist Monika Weiss on Francisco Goya, War, Trauma, and Unforgetting History
Michael Najjar, electric rainfall from cool earth series, 2021-ongoing Hybrid photography, 132 x 202 cm, © Michael Najjar
Michael Najjar cool earth,
2021-ongoing
The artworks of the cool earth series combine science and fiction. They imagine the transition to a world without fossil energy and open up a mental field of possibilities for the viewer of how we could shape a liveable, post-destructive world.
Behind the walls of Ritsona, Greece’s largest refugee camp
Artists, poets, writers and musicians share their work with Streaming Museum in the hope of transcending the walls that keep them out of sight. A 4-part series.
Fedele Spadafora, Potter Park, Michigan, 2016. Oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
Forests have social lives:
The science + the art of
Fedele Spadafora
Agnus Dei from
Mass for the Endangered
composer, Sarah Kirkland Snider
lyrics, Nathanial Bellows
videoart, Deborah Johnson
"Breathtaking beauty." --The New Yorker"
A prayer for endangered wildlife and their imperiled
environments...elegiac and affecting." --Wall Street Journal
Intended as a performance art visual poem in response to the covid lockdown, UK-based artist Marty St. James, a pioneer in this genre, created InBetween World in 2022. However, the work has expanded meanings, as it inhabits and intertwines human form and nature stretched and overtaken with strange form and mind alterations—it is a metaphor of human interdependence in a world grappling with crises of wars, social injustice, and climate change.
Announcements
Streaming Museum, based in New York City, is pleased to announce our partnership in The Next Renaissance -- a publication, multi-media website and ongoing programming, dedicated to European Innovation by Creative Economy (ICE) that brings together makers and thinkers in art, tech, industries, innovation and generations in Europe. The focus is in the development of better systems in technologies and organizations, in cities and businesses and the public realm.
Streaming Museum’s inaugural articles, On Poets: Human and Robot, and How We Live Together, were originally published in the UN 75th anniversary issue of CENTERPOINT NOW "Are we there yet?”, the publication and ©2020 of World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, co-produced with Streaming Museum.
Land Art Generator Initiative’s latest competition - LAGI2022 Mannheim
LAGI 2022 invites you to design a beautiful renewable energy landscape for Spinelli Park in Mannheim, Germany, the site of BUGA 23.
Desire is the motivation that will drive massive change. Artists and designers hold the key to unlock that desire.
Just as a garden is a productive landscape for nourishment, that also brings us joy and pleasure, can we design our energy landscapes so they also bring joy and pleasure to communities?
Streaming Museum will feature winners and shortlisted designs for LAGI2022 Mannheim.
Recent Programs and Publication
Hello 2022.
Kindness, Key to Survival
an essay by Dr. Daniel M.T. Fessler, Director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, is accompanied by the painting The World is Yours the World Is Mine by Shahzia Sikander (left).
Exhibition features: Richard Mosse's photography series Infrared on beauty and tragedy in war and destruction; Incoming on mass migration and human displacement / Mass for the Endangered, "breathtaking beauty" by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider / Michael Najjar's supersymmetric particles hybrid photograph of The Large Hadron Collider, searching for the inner structure holding the world together / Stephanie Castonguay, sound artist's Capturing Light and Sentient probes circuits as the closest way to touching the stars from a distance / Land Art Generator’s renewable energy landscapes are large-scale works of art / Debbie Symons’s extinction data visualization 1975 - 2100 / Sadalsuud by composer Emanuel Pimenta and filmmaker Dino Viani's portrait of people around the world isolated during the pandemic / When the Time is Right an NFT by David Bates, Jr.
Fessler’s essay, and art by Sikander, Mosse, Najjar are included in the UN 75th anniversary issue of CENTERPOINT NOW the publication and ©2020 World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, co-produced with Streaming Museum. Read it at StreamingMuseum.org and WCPUN.org.
CENTERPOINT NOW, “Are we there yet?”
publication presents an unexpected take on the United Nations’ 75th anniversary, reflecting on the immense scope of the UN’s mandate through topics as diverse as the implications of space exploration, ethics for human health, the impact of peacekeeping, women and finance, traditional medicine, global migration, gender and climate change, architecture and energy solutions for the future, AI and humanism, the neuroscience of bias, overcoming the challenges of multilateralism, and more. The strong emphasis on art invites the reader to engage with the subjects on various levels. Centerpoint Now is a publication and copyright of World Council of Peoples for the United Nations. This special issue was produced in collaboration with Streaming Museum.