Ganadores del 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative para el Freshkills Park.

1er Premio para LAGI 2012: Scene-Sensor // Crossing Social and Ecological Flows
Equipo de artistas: James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze
Ubicación de la intervención: Atlanta, EE.UU.
Tecnologías energéticas: Generadores Piezoelectricos (Película delgada y alambre incrustado)
Capacidad anual: 5,500 MWh
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Texto descriptivo del artista: Key interactions of human and ecological energies, above and below the surface of Freshkills, drive complex environmental flows, allowing us to question how to sense, channel, and harness their energies in a productive tension, revealing their interconnected fluctuations in beneficial ways. Scene-Sensor situates itself at the intersection of flows joining and separating opposing landforms: as a channel screen, harnessing the flows of wind through the tidal artery, and as vantage points, staging crosswise pedestrian flows through the park, the two acting in combination as a mirror-window, reflecting and revealing the scene of Freshkills’ fluctuating landscape back to itself. más...

2do Premio para LAGI 2012: Fresh Hills
Equipo de artistas: Matthew Rosenberg Structural Engineering Consultant: Matt Melnyk Production Assistants: Emmy Maruta, Robbie Eleazer Artist Ubicación de la intervención: Los Angeles, EE.UU.
Tecnologías energéticas: Windtamer, Dióxido de Carbono Scrubber, SmartWrap.
Capacidad anual: 238 MWh
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Texto descriptivo del artista: As we approach Fresh Hills, the undulating mounds appear to be natural elements growing from the earth. The closer we get, however, it is clear that this structure, like the mounds below it, are not native to the recently capped Fresh Kills Landfill site. Its form rests lightly on the existing topography and creates definition across the expansive horizon. It caresses the East mound, creating a seamless integration between utility-scale energy harnessing and a program-filled landscape. It creates a harmonious relationship between earth and wind. Fresh Hills is a remedy for the typical turbine farm that so often isolates the landscape and discourages communities from engaging the space. más...

3er Premio para LAGI 2012: PIVOT
Equipo de artistas: Yunxin Hu and Ben Smith.
Localización de la intervención: Atlanta, EE.UU.
Tecnologías energéticas: Discos piezoeléctricos y telas.
Capacidad anual: 1,200 MWh
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Texto descriptivo del artista: Central to Freshkills’ future is the fluctuating nature of its two key conditions—the gradual sinking of its landfill and rising of its surrounding sea level—making our challenge how to transform these potential problems into opportunities for land art. PIVOT answers with two intertwining operations: a floating ‘terra nova’ constructed at the moving line between these conditions that frame it while replacing lost terrain; and a gathering of the human and wind energies flowing along ‘the Kill/Confluence.’ más...

4to Premio para LAGI 2012: 99 Red Balloons
Equipo de artistas: Emeka Nnadi, Scott Rosin, Meaghan Hunter, Danielle Loeb, Kara McDowell, Indrajit Mitra, Narges Ayat, Denis Fleury
Localización de la intervención: Winnipeg, Canada
Tecnologías energéticas: Solar panels and piezoelectric panels
Capacidad anual: 14,000 MWh
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Texto descriptivo del artista: “99 dreams I have had, In everyone a red balloon, It’s all over and I’m standin’ pretty In this dust that was a city. If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I think of you, and let it go” (99 Luftballoons, Nena, 1984.)

An excerpt from the 1984 song "99 Red Balloons", this verse evokes visions of loss, hope, memory, and the perseverance of dreams for a redemptive and meaningful future. Inspired by these images, 99 Red Balloons is a thoughtful proposal for a metaphorical souvenir — proof that something redeeming and beautiful can rise out of the ‘dust’ that has been placed on the land by human activity and the accumulation of society’s waste. más...