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NIES/SIGTUNA, Stockholm/Uppsala, Sweden
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
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Broadsheet: “Presenting Wild Animals: Two Sea Lions, a White Whale-bear and a Long-tailed Monkey,” June 1754
The graphic reproduction shows the icebear hunt in Greenland, several sailing ships and boats from that time, the long-tailed monkey mentioned in the title, and even a whale in the background.
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Broadsheet: “History of Sea Creatures,” 1753
Natural scientific paper from 1753 with an illustration of a full-grown crocodile and a hatching baby as well as a lizard, reportedly the crocodile’s main food.
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Broadsheet: “Graphic Story of Elephants According to Their Accomplishments,” 1746
Elephants: their functions and their depiction around 1746.
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Broadsheet: “Depiction of a Memorable Incident with Mice,” 1675
A curious and memorable incident with mice around the village Brochdorp near Hannover in 1675.
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Altamira Cave
In 1879, eight-year-old Maria Justina discovered spectacular paintings in the Altamira cave in northern Spain.
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“Introduction to Environmental Art.”
Linda Weintraub introduces eco-art strategies, genres, issues, and, approaches.
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Telephone
In October 1861 Philipp Reis presented his “telephone” to the members of the physics association in Frankfurt.
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Apollo Mission
On his Apollo mission in 1968, astronaut Bill Anders shot one of the most well-known photographs of the Earth—“Earthrise.” It became a symbol for the fragility of the Earth and an icon for the environmental movement that soon followed.
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Zuse Z4
In 1935 Konrad Zuse began working for the Henschel Flugzeugwerke in Berlin-Schönefeld, where he developed the Z3 and Z4 electromechanical computers.