Title: Environmental Art: Five Contemporary Artists And The Environment
Headings: 5 Awesome Contemporary Artists Shining a Light on the Environment
5 Awesome Contemporary Artists Shining a Light on the Environment
These innovative artists use their talents to honor and care for the Earth
1. Naziha Mestaoui
2. Ludovico Einaudi
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Content: 1. Naziha Mestaoui
Naziha Mestaoui is a Parisian artist and architect whose piece, “ 1 Heart 1 Tree, ” uses video-mapping techniques to highlight the primal importance of rainforests. This “global citizen work of art” enables people to plant a unique, virtual, live-streaming tree via a smartphone app that grows in a public space or on a world monument in sync with their heartbeat. Mestaoui explains that, “each personalized tree is planted/projected on a monument with the person’s name or positive message,” and that “each tree will have tangible impact: for every virtual tree, a real tree will be planted in a reforestation program around the world.” The earliest version of this constantly changing environmental art was exhibited in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro for the The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Since then, it has traveled around India, Turkey, France, and beyond and was featured in 2015 on the Eiffel Tower for the opening of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). This projection was live streamed by over 1 million people around the world. Mestaoui is currently working on the international tour for “1 Heart 1 Tree.” If you join the project and pay to plant a tree, you’ll receive “a digital picture of your virtual tree, a certificate, a Google Earth file of the plantation zone you contributed to plant in, and a report about the project every 6 months, during 3 years.”