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Published 24 June 2025 Art , Events , Science ClosedPater Noster aims to save our oceans: Green Cubes and world-famous artists on display this summer
Published 10 June 2024 Art , Events ClosedTags: art exposition
Pater Noster, a renowned boutique hotel, is proud to announce its pioneering sponsorship of Green Cubes, a greentech initiative in collaboration with Hexagon’s R-evolution, aimed at combating ocean acidification. This summer, the hotel will host the “Art & Science of Water” exhibition, featuring celebrated artists who fuse science and photography, including a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy.
Since its opening in the summer of 2020, Pater Noster has become a standout destination in West Sweden. Nestled on one of Sweden’s most rugged coastlines, the hotel offers nine exclusive rooms and a unique atmosphere that has garnered numerous accolades, including the Grand Tourism Award and recognition as the world’s best hotel concept by The Awards for Hospitality Experience and Design (AHEAD). Attracting Hollywood stars, international travelers, and global corporations, Pater Noster is now extending its vision to ocean preservation through a series of dedicated initiatives.
“Our oceans are in crisis. Pater Noster is a tribute to the sea, and we are committed to protecting it on every level—local, national, and global. The connection between deforestation and ocean acidification is undeniable; as CO2 levels rise, our marine life suffers. Without action, the high acidity will prevent lobsters and shrimp from forming shells. Protecting our forests is essential to safeguarding our oceans,” said Mirja Lilja Hagsjö, CEO of Pater Noster.
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Art & Science of Water with World-Famous Artists
This summer, the “Art & Science of Water” exhibition will take place at Pater Noster as part of Tjörn Island of Art. The exhibition will showcase works by renowned photographers, including:
– Christy Lee Rogers: Known for her underwater photography that has been compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio.
– Lara Zankoul: A Lebanese fashion photographer who’s socially committed work, created in her studio’s large aquarium, evokes strong emotions and debate.
– Ulrika and Lukasz: An award-winning duo whose “Stories Trapped in Ice” series documents scientific research using ice cores from the Niels Bohr Institute.
The artworks, printed on large aluminum plates, will be displayed outdoors on the cliffs and within the island’s various buildings. The exhibition will also feature information about Green Cubes and its first rainforest project at La Gamba Tropical Station in Costa Rica. The exhibition is accompanied by music from Mattias Tell, a songwriter and producer at Kode Records from Gothenburg, whose music gives space to the sea and its sounds.
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Continue reading ‘Pater Noster aims to save our oceans: Green Cubes and world-famous artists on display this summer’Poetry of science: “dissolving depths” (text & video)
Published 22 November 2023 Art , Resources ClosedFragile Beauty explores the powerful allure of nature alongside its delicate state today. Featuring site-specific installations by Beatriz Chachamovits, Mira Lehr, and Lauren Shapiro, the exhibition brings together works by local Miami artists that reflect on climate change and human impact on our oceans, coral reefs, and rapidly shifting environment.
Working across installation and performance, Chachamovits’ draws attention to the effects of ocean acidification in her ephemeral installations of unfired clay sculptures submerged in water. Along with extreme temperature fluctuations, ocean acidification can cause coral reefs to dissolve and disintegrate, significantly impacting reefs across Florida. The resulting works, when activated, expose the public to different stages of ocean acidification and its effects on coral.
Shapiro’s practice too experiments with art’s possibility to affect change and cultivate a broad awareness of our environment. Working alongside ecologists to understand and narrate nature, Shapiro merges craft, science and technology to document disappearing ecosystems as sculptural ceramic archives.
Whereas Chachamovits and Shapiro consider environmental threats to marine ecosystems, Lehr’s immersive installations pay homage to mangrove trees, which protect coastlines against hurricanes and serve as nurseries for aquatic life. Threatened by rising sea levels, urban development, and human activities, mangroves in Florida, while protected by law, continue to fall victim to deforestation.
Utilizing different media to convey the elegance of our aquatic ecosystems and cultivate a broad awareness of their delicacy, the participating artists draw attention to the environmental challenges we face in Florida and the actions we can take to reverse them. Fragile Beauty is a celebration of nature, yet at the same time a call for awareness and action to preserve it for generations to come.
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Date: January 4
Website: https://jmof.fiu.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/environmental-art-fragile-beauty/index.html
Venue
Florida International University-Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33139 United States
Phone:786.972.3176
Website: https://jmof.fiu.edu/
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Ocean conservation success stories offer hope and inspiration
Published 18 August 2022 Art , Web sites and blogs ClosedNew technologies and research are helping solve problems such as plastic pollution, bycatch and ocean acidification.
It’s easy to take the ocean for granted. The deep blue is crucial to things we do every day without thinking. We breathe. We eat and drink. We buy something that’s made far from where we live. The ocean contributes to all those things. Not thinking about what the ocean does for us would be okay if its gifts were limitless. But they are not. And the actions of humans — nearly 8 billion of us — are threatening resources we can’t do without.
Thankfully, a growing number of people are focused on safeguarding the ocean. Scientists, lawmakers, businesses and nonprofit groups are among those raising awareness of problems such as plastic pollution, bycatch and ocean acidification. They aren’t only highlighting problems, however. They are developing solutions. Small success stories are building hope and encouraging more people to get involved.
We created a special collection of KidsPost stories because we know that when you think about the ocean, you realize how valuable it is. We have proof. Readers recently answered our request for short ocean appreciations, several of which we feature below. Reflecting is a good first step. We hope the additional stories and photos deepen your understanding of the ocean’s problems and inspire you to be part of the solutions.
Reflections by young writers
What I appreciate most about the ocean is the diversity of life it supports, from enormous blue whales to tiny, but ever so important, corals. I love the beauty, architecture and liveliness of all the animals, plants and others who dwell under the sea.
— Brice Claypoole, 14, Longboat Key, Florida
Treasure, transportation and food. All of these good things come from the ocean. The ocean lets us explore and express ourselves. It gives us food and all of these amazing things that come from the ocean. It allows us to show the world what we can do together!
— Owen Bairley, 9, Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Continue reading ‘Ocean conservation success stories offer hope and inspiration’Three current students shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art awards
Published 6 May 2022 Art ClosedThree current Visual Arts students, Linnéa Gad, Vivian Vivas, and Char Jeré, were shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards.
Presented by Asia Society and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards aim to foster climate change awareness through the imagination and insights of an upcoming generation of visual artists. This important award offers three winners $15,000 and honors in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of Asia Society’s COAL + ICE exhibition.
Gad’s work centers around the material lime and “examines how CO2 levels and the acidification of the sea are intertwined with the lifecycle of the mineral,” according to the Frankenthaler website. Working within the medium of sculpture, she works only with lime which is contained in every material she uses such as oyster shells, lapis lazuli, and cement. In so doing, Gad tries to highlight lime’s “diversity and its willingness to bind with different versions of itself.”
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Columbia University School of the Arts, 4 May 2022. More information.
Continue reading ‘Three current students shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art awards’The Ocean comes to its own defense in a new musical that confronts climate change (text & audio)
Published 11 March 2022 Art Closed“Ocean Filibuster” is onstage at the A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center through Sunday, March 13. An online version will be available to stream March 9-27 and the producers plan to take it on tour.
According to a recent United Nations report, climate change is causing irreparable damage to farmland, cities and coastlines. Environmentalists say getting the public to act on dire news like this is hard, but Harvard University scientists collaborating with the American Repertory Theater believe an immersive musical experience will help.
“Ocean Filibuster” stars a bold, battered, billions-of-years-old main character: the Ocean.
“No, I’m not here on behalf of the ocean, I’m not standing in for the ocean,” actor Jennifer Kidwell clarifies on stage early in the production, “I am the Ocean.”
She actually portrays two characters in “Ocean Filibuster” — that immense body of water, and she also plays against herself as a polished politician named Mr. Majority.
In the opening scene, Mr. Majority addresses a global senate in a dystopian future. The theater is set up like a government chamber and the audience plays a part in the proceedings. Mr. Majority tells us how superstorms, wildfires and drought have ravaged the planet. Cities like New York and Tokyo are underwater.
“Coastal landslides displacing entire countries, forcing the desperate masses inland, penniless and hungry to start anew,” he says. “When we trace this devastation back to the source, we find ourselves standing on a beach, gazing upon the ocean.”
Continue reading ‘The Ocean comes to its own defense in a new musical that confronts climate change (text & audio)’University unveils creative projects communicating climate emergency
Published 5 November 2021 Art , Web sites and blogs ClosedThe Creative Associates 2021
An interdisciplinary project that brings together science and art to create innovative methods of communicating research has unveiled its 2021 ‘collection’ focused on the climate emergency.
From an Ocean Organ that provides a visual representation of ocean acidification to a help guide on restoring oak woodland, the pieces are all part of the Creative Associates programme at the University of Plymouth.
Orchestrated by the Sustainable Earth Institute, and now in its third year, Creative Associates has been responsible for some imaginative approaches to communicating scientific issues, including putting a mobile phone in a blender to reveal the rare materials contained within – a video that was viewed by millions of people around the world.
“With the COP26 conference underway, the climate emergency is dominating the news agenda,”
says Dr Paul Hardman, Manager of the Sustainable Earth Institute.
“But not everyone engages with the mainstream media, so it’s vital that we find alternative channels through which we can communicate and conceptualise key issues such as carbon in our atmosphere, sustainable cities and biodiversity. The Creative Associates seek to do this, whether through stunning photography, film, or interactive resources, reaching out to people and often presenting positive solutions.”
One of the projects – Visualising Climate: Young People’s Responses to the Climate Emergency – was even invited to hold an event in the Green Zone at COP26, showcasing the work undertaken by Professor of Sociology, Alison Anderson, artist Carey Marks and film-maker James Ellwood. Together they ran a series of co-created workshops with young people aged 16–18 in schools in Devon to find out how they engage with climate change and their views about how the issues are being covered in the media. An interactive game using illustrated visual icons created by Carey’s company Scarlet DESIGN provided a visually exciting means to encourage the young people to open up.
Their findings produced a number of insights, including that young people tend to have better knowledge of the impacts than the causes of climate change. Also, they recalled seeing climate change content most regularly on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. They tend to identify with and distinguish between specific social media platforms more than they do with the original sources of content posted to these platforms. Young people also preferred the topic to be framed visually, showing local impacts and everyday contexts. A film capturing the voices of a selection of the young people has been produced by James Ellwood of Fotonow.
Continue reading ‘University unveils creative projects communicating climate emergency’Ocean acidification a poem by Samantha Jones
Published 9 September 2021 Art , Presentations ClosedTags: resource, video/audio
The poem “Ocean Acidification” blends science and poetry to explore one of the challenges a high-CO2 world poses to the ocean and the species, ecosystems, and human communities that depend on it.
Author Samantha Jones’ PhD research on carbon cycling in the Canadian Arctic inspired this work, which first appeared in WATCH YOUR HEAD (online) in March 2021 at watchyourhead.ca/.
Samantha is currently a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
Continue reading ‘Ocean acidification a poem by Samantha Jones’A moment with the sea – communicating caring actions for the Baltic Sea
Published 18 August 2021 Art , Events ClosedTags: art exposition, resource
Baltic Sea Day Thursday August 26th 2021
Inspired by the Ocean Confessions by Pete Fung and Samein Shamshar and adapted in Tvärminne research station in Hanko by a multidisciplinary research group as part of the Baltic Sea Lab in the CreaTures Research project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 grant.
We invite you to participate in this action of caring for the Baltic Sea!
We want to enable a personal encounter with the sea by providing the participants to express their love, concerns, transgressions or fears for their local sea. The science we face daily is worrying and might easily lead us to feeling defeated and powerless. Through voicing our emotions, we can move into a space of gratitude, poetic, reflective, collectively caring. You can participate by attending the event at Hanaholmen or remotely by sending us your message to and for the Baltic Sea.
Participation at Hanaholmen 3 PM – 6 PM:
Professor of practise Julia Lohmann with her team presents her work and encourages us to show our engagement and care for the Baltic Sea. In this activity we will ask participants to spend a moment with the sea and share a thought with this body of water by writing it with chalk, a calcium based medium that acts as a token against ocean acidification. This writing will happen either directly on the rocks or on smaller stones and pieces of bark that can be placed by the shore. The reflections of care will be given to the sea.
As a symbolic act of care, the writings on the rock will be done using street chalk, which is made of calcium carbonate, and will enter the sea in the end. Calcium carbonate buffers the acidification of the sea caused by climate change.
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Continue reading ‘A moment with the sea – communicating caring actions for the Baltic Sea’Zobol ocean acidification – white coral wastelands (audio)
Published 12 August 2021 Art ClosedTags: audio, resource
Zobol – Ocean Acidification EP Nocta Numerica Records – NN020 Vinyl 12′ 2021, Paris, France
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How to rescue the oceans from progressive acidification?
Published 13 September 2019 Art , Events ClosedEvent: Saturday 14 September, 2-3pm, Auckland, New Zealand
Join artist Charlotte Graham and University of Auckland Professor of Biological Sciences Te Kura Mātauranga Koiora, Dr. Mary Sewell, as they discuss Graham’s Whakawaikawa Moana/Acidic Oceans, 2019.
Whakawaikawa Moana/Acidic Oceans is a mirror and text installation that addresses the phenomenon of ocean acidification by summoning the world (AO) and its natural elements under environmental stress. Employing lighting to project words in many directions evoking the multidirectional power of the winds and the sun shimmering on the ocean surface, the work speaks of acidic waters compromising marine life.
Graham will discuss her work in light of scientific research on ocean acidification and the pair will explore scientific solutions to restore balance to our oceans.
Charlotte Graham (Pare Hauraki, Pare Waikato, Ngāti Kotimana) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses different materials to engage in indigenous dialogue. Graham’s work has addressed social, cultural and political issues for more than twenty years.
Dr. Mary Sewell’s recent research has focused on the impact of ocean acidification on early development in sea urchins and green-shell mussels, from habitats including the Hauraki Gulf, Firth of Thames and coastal regions of Antarctica.
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Performers swimming in the lighted water of Hirschengraben Indoor Swimming Pool in Bern during an artistic performance by Swiss visual artist Pipilotti Rist and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to denounce the disappearance of corals due to warming and acidification of the ocean. Photo courtesy: AFP
Exhibition features East German photos, oceanic sculptures
Published 10 September 2018 Art , Media coverage ClosedPhotographs from 1974 East Berlin and sculptures of sea slugs sit side by side at the fall exhibits at the Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville.
The first exhibit, entitled Taking Sides, features work by New Haven photographer Sven Martson who recently published a book with photographs of daily life in East Berlin before the fall of the Berlin wall. Sculptor Gar Waterman created the second exhibit, entitled Canaries in a Blue Coal Mine. His work aims to draw attention to the impact of ocean acidification on sea creatures through his sculptures of animals such as cephalopods, sea slugs and fish. Both exhibits will be on display until October 7.
“Sven is covering what humans are doing to each other and my show is more about what we are doing to the environment,” Waterman said at the show’s opening on Sunday . “Both of our shows show how we are interacting we each other in one case and also how we are interacting with the world and the creatures that are in it.”
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Art is an ideal way to communicate climate imperatives in digestible chunks, Pam McKinlay says. Bruce Munro talks to the Dunedin artist and curator ahead of the family-focused art expo “Oku Moana”.
Pam McKinlay is saving the planet, not one, but a dozen interactive art works at a time.
“Carbonated Ocean” photos raise awareness for climate change’s lesser known evil twin
Published 21 June 2018 Art Closed
Striking conceptual photography is once again a major component of Christine Ren’s latest conservation campaign, called Carbonated Ocean
Last time we were in touch with performer, filmmaker, and underwater “artivist” Christine Ren, we had an insightful discussion about her (then) project about ghost fishing titled Silent Killers. Now, she’s back with a new website and another evocative project centered on marine conservation. This time, she zeroes in on climate change’s lesser known evil twin, ocean acidification.
