<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>RENATURED</provider_name><provider_url>https://o-matic.com/blog</provider_url><author_name>Marina</author_name><author_url>https://o-matic.com/blog/blog/author/admin/</author_url><title>Making the best of it 2016</title><html>New year, new thread, I&#039;m on sabbatical from ITP, and starting almost 3 months of deep research out of town - in the Gulf of Mexico, and in Minneapolis for a new umbrella project called Making the Best of It. Here&#039;s a nano description:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Making the Best of It &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;is the umbrella concept for a series of regionally site-specific pop up food shacks and community dinners that feature a climate-change enabled (and often unwanted) edible indicator species, in order to engage publics in tastings and conversation about the risks of climate chaos, our business-as-usual food system, and the short term food innovations at our disposal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;March - I&#039;ll be at &lt;a href=&quot;http://culturesofenergy.com/&quot;&gt;CENHS at Rice University&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;April - Minneapolis, through n&lt;a href=&quot;http://northern.lights.mn/&quot;&gt;orthern.lights.mn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;padding-left: 30px;&quot;&gt;May - &lt;a href=&quot;https://risingwatersrr.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;Rising Waters Confab&lt;/a&gt;, Rauschenberg residency Program, Captiva Island&lt;/p&gt;
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In the Gulf, I&#039;m focused on jellyfish as an edible signal species.

In Minneapolis, a team of awesome artists (Valentine Cadieux, Aaron Marx, Sarah Peterson) and I are working with Northern Lights to produce 13 months of programming around eating dandelions.

I&#039;ll be logging research and development on jellyfish and the Gulf. Oh, and hopefully the Port of Houston. I&#039;ve been working on the firewall of maritime shipping and &quot;Harmonized System&quot; code that keeps us from the oceans. there&#039;s a show up at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitforms.com/exhibitions/zurkow-2016&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;bitforms&lt;/a&gt; of this work Feb 14-Apr 3.  It&#039;s called MORE&amp;MORE.

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