Use Your Cell Phone to Plant a SEED and Help Grow a Forest

An interactive art installation invites participants to use their cell phones to plant “seeds” to grow a virtual forest.

“SEED is the first cell-phone driven interactive installation whose purpose is to effect environmental change in the real world.

The ultimate goal of this evolving project is to buy a virtual tree seedling to plant in this installation; your cell phone provider will bill you, and the proceeds will be used to reforest certain endangered portions of our planet,” said Napoleon Brousseau, artist and founding member of the SEED Collective. [via Rhizome.org]

The Canadian Film Centre's Habitat New Media Lab in collaboration with the SEED Collective will unveil an innovative interactive art installation, SEED, during the –scopeNew York Art Fair, March 11th to 14th at Flatotel, 135 West 52nd in New York City.

While we're talking of trees, Rhizome also mentions International tree climbing day to be held on March 26.

"An opportunity to on mass LIBERATE THE HORIZONTAL and Integrate the vertical SUPER SURFACE".

emily | 11:44 AM | SMS Arts and Activism |
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