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.
The first in a projected series of video installations that seeks to explore the environmental humanities as a scholarly domain of growing significance.
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.
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.
Elephants: their functions and their depiction around 1746.
A curious and memorable incident with mice around the village Brochdorp near Hannover in 1675.
In 1879, eight-year-old Maria Justina discovered spectacular paintings in the Altamira cave in northern Spain.
Linda Weintraub introduces eco-art strategies, genres, issues, and, approaches.
In October 1861 Philipp Reis presented his “telephone” to the members of the physics association in Frankfurt.
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.
In 1935 Konrad Zuse began working for the Henschel Flugzeugwerke in Berlin-Schönefeld, where he developed the Z3 and Z4 electromechanical computers.