about
Launched in 2021 by Diane Drubay, Blueshift is a curatorial research space exploring the role of environmental art as a catalyst for climate action.
Our exhibitions are slow and low-impact presentations in which energy, materials, and rhythm are treated as curatorial concerns in their own right. Exhibitions are transformative and sensory experiments through minimal gestures, reused materials, and attention to presence. Instead of spectacle, contemplative and intimate experiences reframe our relationship to technology and the living world.
Each exhibition and project form a strand of ongoing research into how artists working with ecological themes and often using emerging technologies can spark shifts in perception, behavior, and collective action toward sustainable futures.
Blueshift began with the creation of an environmentally focused art collection on the Tezos-based platform hic et nunc in March 2021. This marked the start of a series of experiments, discussions, and curatorial investigations, initially under the name Arteztic, that unfolded across 2021 and 2022, exploring the potential of networked, digitally mediated practices to deepen environmental engagement.
Contact us if you're interested in co-curating an ecologically-focused exhibition, in reducing the environmental footprint of your show, or in including environmentally-engaged artists in your collection.
Our exhibitions are slow and low-impact presentations in which energy, materials, and rhythm are treated as curatorial concerns in their own right. Exhibitions are transformative and sensory experiments through minimal gestures, reused materials, and attention to presence. Instead of spectacle, contemplative and intimate experiences reframe our relationship to technology and the living world.
Each exhibition and project form a strand of ongoing research into how artists working with ecological themes and often using emerging technologies can spark shifts in perception, behavior, and collective action toward sustainable futures.
Blueshift began with the creation of an environmentally focused art collection on the Tezos-based platform hic et nunc in March 2021. This marked the start of a series of experiments, discussions, and curatorial investigations, initially under the name Arteztic, that unfolded across 2021 and 2022, exploring the potential of networked, digitally mediated practices to deepen environmental engagement.
Contact us if you're interested in co-curating an ecologically-focused exhibition, in reducing the environmental footprint of your show, or in including environmentally-engaged artists in your collection.
objectives
- Raise awareness of the potential for environmentally engaged art to inspire climate consciousness and action
- Support and amplify the work of artists exploring ecological themes and more-than-human perspectives
- Advance curatorial research through exhibitions, editorial work, and public conversations
- Build a dedicated online platform for showcasing environmentally focused artistic practices shaped by emerging technologies
we believe
Art collection fuels impactful artistic practices, motivates artists & supports aligned NGOs, fostering positive change. Therefore, all artworks presented can be bought directly from the artist.
our research
How can art activate climate action?
Environmental art does more than raise awareness.
It can shift perspectives, spark engagement, and inspire real-world change. Our research explores how artists working with ecological themes and digital tools can transform spectators into participants.
Utilizing its extensive outreach power, can we see impact and action as the main functions of environmental digital art?
Environmental art does more than raise awareness.
It can shift perspectives, spark engagement, and inspire real-world change. Our research explores how artists working with ecological themes and digital tools can transform spectators into participants.
Utilizing its extensive outreach power, can we see impact and action as the main functions of environmental digital art?
name
"Blueshift" invites to shift our perspective to the our Planet Earth. It is a direct response to the call for action shared by Marv Recinto in this article, and a reference to The Shift Project inviting our current system to move away from the carbon economy.
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