Amy Balkin: This is the Public Domain

from the website:
“This is the Public Domain” is a project to create a permanent international commons. The land will be free to anyone to use, and each will be held in perpetuity. In 2003, a 2.5 acre parcel was purchased to serve as the site for the proposed public domain. Located in Tehachapi, California, sharing of this commons will be initiated when a juridical solution for public handover is found….

Amy Franceschini/Futurefarmers

 www.futurefarmers.com

Materials: paper, wood, foam, plants, thread
Dimensions: 26″ x 28″ x 13
Collaboration: Amy Franceschini, Michael Swaine
Photosynthesis Robot is a three-dimensional sketch of a possible perpetual motion machine driven by phototropism- the movement of plants towards the direction of the sun. The motion of the plants upon this four wheeled vehicle would propel slowly over a period of time.

Grants

Artist Residency Programs

studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito

Bay Area
Djerassi Foundation
Kala Art Center
Headlands Center for the Arts*

National
ArtOMI
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown*
MacDowell Colony
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation*
Millay Colony
Roswell
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture*
Vermont Studio Center*
Yaddo

International
ARCUS (Japan)
Banff

Links
Res Artis: the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 200 centers and organisations in 50 countries worldwide that offer to international artists facilities and conditions conducive for making art.