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AMD&ART, Discharge from Mine #3, Vintondale, PA, 2000 (photo: AMD&ART)
AMD&ART, Kathleen Rogers, and Rapid Response, are each vitally concerned with how humans interact with the natural world. Their art responds to the setting, social landscape, and interests of the artists involved.

Through community meetings, enlisting the support of local and regional authorities and digging settlement ponds as an artwork, AMD&ART brings together a particular type of art constituency. A digital video installation by Kathleen Rogers exploring Mayan maize iconography and modern DNA sequencing is directed to an entirely different type audience. It links the work of scientists, farmers and scholars to explore shared history of humans and plants. Provocative signage in downtown Manhattan by Rapid Response creates a new and unexpected dialogue on the streets. Global problems demand real solutions.

Rapid Response, Mobil Global Warming bicycle rickshaw at Chelsea Mobil Station, NYC, 2000.(photo: Rapid Response)

Kathleen Rogers, "Ghosty DNA",1999 (photo: Kathleen Rogers)
Whether it's the historical relationship to the foods we eat or the local and global impacts of energy extraction, these artists look at context and involve people concerned with these issues in their art. They recognize that the world is an interconnected network of relationships in which art plays an important part. Environmental art.

Hundreds of people around the world are creating similar and dramatically different artworks at this very moment. Thousands more throughout history have responded to the same aesthetic impulse to communicate, address and explore our environment through what we now call art: interdisciplinary, contextual, and related directly to the natural world.
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