2011 Climate Change Communicators of the Year

“Ecological Art is an art practice, often in collaboration with scientists, city planners, architects and others, that results in direct intervention in environmental degradation. Often, the artist is the lead agent in that practice.” — Aviva Rahmani, 2006

"Aviva Rahmani's wonderfully inventive eco-cyber "Gulf to Gulf" 2009 uses the web to produce and reproduce real-time teleconferences seeking to solve environmental problems. The conferences include scientists, environmental experts and artists, with Rahmani responding to the ideas and strategies expressed by the participants with "performative paintings" made possible by a web tool called Webex. Ideas and applications brilliantly emerge throughout the teleconferences, and Rahmani's variously subtle cyber-images are more of a subjective accompaniment than a specific commentary." — Lucas Carpenter, Art Papers, 2010

More of Aviva’s work can be seen at: http://www.ghostnets.com