Futurefarmers (for this project Amy Franceschini and Michael
Swaine), founded in 1994 in San Francisco, is an international
group of artists, activists, farmers, and architects who work
collaboratively to reimagine the environment and one's place in
it.
Peter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of
Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps- Empires of Time, How
Experiments End, and Image and Logic- A Material Culture of
Microphysics, among other books, and coeditor (with Emily Thompson)
of The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999).
Anne Walsh produces works in video, performance, audio,
photography, and text. Her work has been shown at galleries and
museums including Artists Space, CCS Bard Galleries, Whitney Museum
of American Art, Royal College of Art, and The J. Paul Getty
Museum. She is Associate Professor of Art Practice at University of
California, Berkeley.
A banal request by physicist Robert Oppenheimer for a nail to hang his hat on and a small table for his telephone marks the starting point of Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine's (Futurefarmers) original tale of the Manhattan Project.... he narration develops on several levels, drawing us in and prompting us to reflect on the many implications of nuclear, past and future.—Domus
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