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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Finally Bagged

28 Thursday Mar 2013

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waste art with jac, rickshaws and volunteers (1)

‘Picture This… Gold in Your Hands’

Green Week at UCLAN was busy – art students worked really hard through freezing conditions to complete their installation on my frame (see below). Students collected hundreds of used plastic carrier bags and employing different textile techniques created a design with an environmental message.

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27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Bacteria is the answer?

Just Science

Energy. We all have it and we all need it on multiple levels. Within our body, energy is stored in a molecular currency that is conserved among all living organisms, adenosine triphosphate, ATP. Of course, you should know that as humans, we require oxygen to live. During our metabolism, hydrogen atoms are divided into their two opposite parts, the proton and electron. The electrons are shuttled through several enzyme complexes while the protons are pumped out of the mitochondrial matrix creating a much greater proton concentration outside than inside. This imbalance is what drives Nature’s smallest rotary motor, ATP synthase. But what about the electrons? Your body has no need for them, energetically speaking so something needs to accept them for the big show to continue. In our case, the acceptor is oxygen. Oxygen accepts the electrons, and the protons that come along to reconstitute the full hydrogen…

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27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Nothing is green – depressing but informative – which colour should we seek now?

27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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This sounds like an inspiring prayer for humanity, but I fear the congregation isn’t listening.

27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Playing a dangerous game with CO2

27 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Outrage and condemnation of yet another powerful international group set to exploit the planet and its peoples

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Water and energy are entwined and battling.

The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production is on track to double within the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects.

And even though fracking—high-pressure hydraulic fracturing of underground rock formations for natural gas and oil—might grab headlines, IEA sees its future impact as relatively small.

By far the largest strain on future water resources from the energy system, according to IEA’s forecast, would be due to two lesser noted, but profound trends in the energy world: soaring coal-fired electricity, and the ramping up of biofuel production.

Two pie charts show the share of different fuels for water consumption, as projected by the International Energy Agency.

If today’s policies remain in place, the IEA calculates that water consumed for energy production would increase from 66 billion cubic meters (bcm) today to 135 bcm annually by 2035.

That’s an amount equal to the residential water use of every person in the United States over three years, or 90 days’ discharge of the Mississippi River. It…

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26 Tuesday Mar 2013

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The beauty of the circle and its infinity knows no bounds.

Exploring The Invisible

Vortex

Just as the physical universe has its black holes and singularties, it appears that the biological universe does too! The bacterium Bacillus mycoides responds to a circle.

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Inertia

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

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Are you sitting comfortably?

“It isn’t so much as what’s on the table that matters as what’s on the chairs”.

William S. Gilbert

The chair has long been a metaphor for the human and many artists have utilised this motif to great effect. It is a powerful symbol I return to often in my work, its accessibility makes it a favourite with many.

I have just finished working on the remnants of a broken and battered wooden chair, that I found washed up on a local beach, with its shabby paint and distorted form, it is completely gorgeous.  The chair appears to be walking into the wall with flies crawling up one side of its back.

Inertia

A new sculpture for my Beautiful Dystopias Collection.

Dimensions: 86 x 65 x 24 cm

Materials: found broken, wooden chair, hand crafted flies, concealed metal fixings

inerstia-detail-fly-leg inertia-single-flyThis sculpture will be be shown at the PR1 Gallery, Preston, UK from 8-19 April 2013 as part of my new solo exhibition Beautiful Dystopias.

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Deadly plastic

25 Monday Mar 2013

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biology, birds, consumption, nature, plastic, rubbish, science, seas, waste

http://www.midwayfilm.com/

A haunting and beautiful film that captures the devastating impact our habit of dumping rubbish in the sea has on seabirds.
One cannot fail to be moved by such a poetic film.
Please watch, comment and share.

Mutual Respect

23 Saturday Mar 2013

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A new sculpture in my Beautiful Dystopias Collection – ‘Ode to Mutualism’.

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Dimensions: 43 x 42 x 19 cm

 

Materials: found rusty metal, dead Juniper twig, preserved hares ears

ode-to-M-top-view-bright ode-to-m-detail-wood-bright hares-ears-sideMany thanks to Rob Fraser for taking such sensitive photographs of my work.

 

21 Thursday Mar 2013

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Very strange but true – or is it?
Is it one of those wacky ideas that only work in a science lab – your thoughts please…

soundscraper-green-energy

The Soundscraper is a futuristic structure designed to transform auditory vibrations from bustling cities into a source of clean energy. Designed by Julien Bourgeois, Olivier Colliez, Savinien de Pizzol, Cedric Dounval and Romain Grouselle, the Soundscraper is covered with noise-sensitive cilia that harvest kinetic energy while soaking up urban noise pollution.

An entry in the 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, the Soundscrapers would be constructed near major motorways and railroad junctions, prime locations for capturing ambient vibrations. A sound-sucking material would cover the exterior of the tower with a double-skin layer, held away from the façade on a metallic frame.

soundscraper-city-energy

For each Soundscraper, 84,000 electro-active lashes would cover the metal frame and pick up noise from cars, trains, pedestrians and passing planes. Each of the lashes is armed with sound sensors called Parametric Frequency Increased Generators. Once the noise is picked up, an energy harvester converts the vibrations to kinetic energy. Transducer…

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jacscottstudio

Hello! I am a visual artist focusing on issue-based work that investigates the environmental issues behind fractured realities. Exploring the enigma of our existence, revealed in our ways of being, our relationship with our environs and the marks we leave behind is my preoccupation. My predilection for collaborations with scientists and geographers has led to an informed body of work that reflects a world without a sense of equilibrium. The work aims to have an oblique potency that acknowledges the world’s dark underbelly, whilst acting as a catalyst for igniting debate. I am an innate researcher who has not lost the infantile curiosity and wonder about the world - the questions and answers are in flux - I appreciate other people's viewpoints so please comment on posts that interest you - I am always happy to hear constructive criticism about my artworks and hear more information about and/or debate issues I raise. Both as metaphor and in material selection, my artistic responses focus on brooding degradation: peeling layers inviting a meditation on the narrative exposed. I try not to create more stuff – our world is already over-stuffed – so I reuse and transform objects whenever possible to satisfy my environmental conscience. This blog was initially started to complement my residency at University of Central Lancashire in Britain where I was working with scientists in the School of Built and Natural Environment examining the hidden impacts of our way of life. The residency has now ended but due to the public response I aim to continue it as long as people are interested in my art practice. Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. Visit www.jacscott.com for more information about my contemporary practice.

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