If ever there was an art-science piece on the web, this would be it: environmental angle, artistic production, scientific context, you get it all. This is, courtesy of our friend Cletus, a piece at Salon about "Activist, environmentalist and former rock promoter" Natalie Jeremijenko.
Go here first, to get into the site, but then pop back to this blog post, and then go here for the article.
Excerpts and comments to come, later on...
...but would include:
1. Why "mad scientist"? Are we still doing that stereotype?
2. What's it take to provide a new perception of something, beyond the lab (such as allowing the public to see water toxicity and fish death as relatd to human health)?
3. [Something else interesting.]
4. Her story isn't clear cut and brings with it some apparent moral contradictions, though such contradictions (environmentalists who are bi-coastal, every week, e.g.) open up a whole new conversation about what consistency means and who determines it.
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