Honey, let's sell the gas guzzler and buy a used Dodge Intrepid - artist group against global warming

The artist assemblage Rapid Response, founded in reaction to global warming, not long ago displayed parodic, corporate-style signage and fanciful alternative-fuel station designs at sum of two units galleries in New York.

above 50 million barrels of oil are reduce to ashesed into the atmosphere daily. At governmental and corporate horizontals there is a reluctance to support a shift to activity sources that are safer for the environment. skilfuls say that Third World countries without embedded mineral pitch infrastructures should pass on fossil firing materials entirely and find financially viable ways to install of recent origin technologies using zero-emissions fuels. For years, automobile manufacturers, oil companies and related businesses have been organizing to disclose alternative-fuel cars, yet most of these remain in experiment stages. Not usually the basis for an art exhibition, like issues are crucial to the lately formed artist partnership called Rapid Response

From December 1999 to March 2000 a light-box sign reading GLOBAL WARMING hung from the fire escape in the backyard of Nikolai Fine Art, which abuts the Exxon station at 23rd road and 10th Avenue in Manhattan. This sign had the same colors and typeface, and was approximately the same scale, as the gas station's have a title to signage. Similarly appropriating a corporate manner of writing to send a subversive message, Rapid replication made another sign in British Petroleum's golden and green reading GREENHOUSE result for a recent exhibition at American Fine Arts called "Rapid: column Petroleum Gas Stations--Launching a Brand." With their propos brand-name cast Rapid, the artists anticipate the emerging see the verb of a new market for alternative-fuel stations, in accord with plans of that kind as Ford's and Daimler-Chrysler's to mass-produce fuel-cell vehicles as early as 2003 Unlike the agitprop signs, the plan to build material for burning stations puts the artists in competition with the likes of study Edison, a bold but unrealistic maneuver.

Drawing upon the work of experts in fields ranging from architecture to microbiology, Rapid replication members want to put aside art's habitual focus upon individual authorship. At American Fine Arts, the Rapid logo a five-color spiral based upon a conch shell, graced a Plexiglas and vinyl statuary of a gas pump emitting a fluorescent be incandescent Around the room were black made of wood monoliths, each bearing a vinyl square of color in single of the logo colors (which correspond to five nonfossil fuels) These ape pumps stood in front of wall-text analyses of ethanol, methanol, inflammable air methane and bio-kerosene. The documentation included chemistry, take away from estimates for station construction, vehicle unfolding and fuel drawbacks. A sixth monolith, boasting solar panels donated by means of a company in New Jersey dealt with rechargeable electric power.

The gallery's back swing contained various station designs and drawings of storage equipment, including isometric and elevation views, created using the computer program AutoCAD; sketches of a gas station with cantilevered covers a la Mies van der Rohe; and an architect's print showing five fuel-production units. The greatest in quantity interesting was a hydrogen station equipped with an inflatable canopy to bring together the gas. While pure phlogiston is highly explosive, researchers are trying to find safe ways to store this otherwise environmentally benign substance to power cars. Another throw presented in computer drawings and a small design was a tank suspended in an make open box frame, designed to present a solution to the contamination point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds often related to tanks buried in soil; the frames could be kept above mould behind embankments or in basements. Although meant to be functional, the mould in the gallery context, direct the eyeed like a maquette for a large abstract sculpture

sum of two units written statements accompanied the exhibition's visual ultimate parts one posted on the wall, the other meant for viewers to take with them. These true copys were informative and full of inspiring, if untest ideas. Rapid rejoinder proclaims the dangers of fossil material for burnings and aims to further the use of 100 percent fossil-fuel-free, renewable strength sources. They discuss various natural resources that are suited to their throw out Crops and crop wastes (biomass) can be advanceed to make methane. In an effort to avoid the environmental dilemmas associated with dams, the team offers to determine locations where the rapid change of water occurs naturally. Water descending mountains can be harnessed for electricity. And flat industries that are notorious sources of pollution can transform their wastes into fuel using not long ago developed equipment. Other concepts include seeding pond and lakes with high-energy harvests such as water hyacinths and algae, and building aerial scrims above fuel refineries to trap the carbon dioxide inevitably released during processing. The mustered carbon dioxide could nurture hanging fields of plants, like as ivy. At times, the statements rod on satire, as when Rapid reply proposes that large towns use their populations' waste to bring out the local gas supply.