Ian Pollock Faculty Profile
Ian Pollock
Associate Professor of Art, Coordinator, M.A. Interaction Design and Interactive Art, Coordinator, Undergraduate Interaction and Game Design Option
Department of Art
- E-mail: ian.pollock@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-3111
- Office: AE1231b
- Office Hours: By Appointment
- Home Page:
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Ian Pollock holds a Master of Fine Art degree in New Media Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Fine Art in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has worked as an educator in fine and applied media art in the United States, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor of Art and the Director of the Graduate Program for Interaction Design and Interactive Art at California State University, East Bay.
Prior to his career in education, Pollock worked in television, launching the San Francisco Government Access Channel Citywatch, as well as in advertising and on the web. He was also a curator for the Southern Exposure Gallery in the 1990s and served as curator and director for Secession Gallery in San Francisco, a project gallery without walls.
Ian Pollock's creative work with communications technologies, the web, and telephones in public spaces has been featured in several anthologies of digital media art. He is a Digital Media Artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as online. His recent projects continue to explore the politics of public space, including the activist street project GuerrillaGrafters, which involves grafting fruiting branches onto sterile city street trees, and the online project BiasMap, which crowd-maps prejudice.
In addition to his creative work, Pollock is involved in transdisciplinary research and collaborations, including game jams, hackathons, playable media, neuroscience, computer science, and afro-futurism, across traditional academic boundaries. He reviews academic and scholarly articles for the Leonardo Journal and for SIGSCE and ITICSCE conferences.
Professor Pollock's creative and professional focus lies in transdisciplinary New Media art, interaction design for social justice and sustainability, creative use of public space, and collaboration in game jams, hackathons, playable media, neuroscience, computer science, and foresight and afro-futurism, as well as social capacity and social capital building.
New media art, collaborations in fine art & design, new media journalism, social capacity, and social capital building
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Principal Investigator |
HUSD, YEP and Hayward Promise Neighborhood, Hayward, CA Pilot project for an after-school program that combines neuroscience education and game making taught by CSUEB graduate students in underserved Hayward high schools. |
2015 |
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Principal Investigator |
California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA Planned, organized, fundraised and led a student-run a 54-hour game creation event. The research focused on discovering best practices to teach multimedia in a multi-disciplinary and team-based approach. Successful prototype event in academic year 13/14 developed into a series of three events in academic year 14/15. Research is expanding to include STEAM/STEAM research. |
2014 - present |
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Principal Investigator |
Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates Planned, organized, fundraised and led international study trip pilot programs to Cairo, Aswan and Luxor, Egypt (2005) and Istanbul and Bursa, Turkey (2006); trips are now common practice across the nine-campus system: |
2005 - 2006 |
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Principal Investigator |
Higher Colleges of Technology Sharjah Women’s College United Arab Emirates Established meetings between Connect Program Executives, students, faculty and administrators to explore the implementation of the Connect Program in the Higher Colleges System |
2006 |
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Cairo Project Director, |
American University in Cairo Cairo, Egypt Successfully connected students from six universities including Harvard University, American University in Cairo and American University in Beirut via the Internet in discussion and collaborations: |
2003 |
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Fund Raising Contact |
Mazar-Sharif, Afghanistan |
2002 |
- MFA, University of California, Berkeley
- BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
| Course # | Sec | Course Title | Days | From | To | Location | Campus |
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| ART 440 | 01 | Forum | W | 7:30PM | 10:00PM | WEB-SYNCH | |
| ART 490 | 01 | Independent Study | ARR | WEB-ASYNCH | |||
| MM 601 | 02 | Interactive Art & Design | M | 4:55PM | 7:25PM | AE-1227 | |
| MM 640 | 01 | Forum | W | 7:30PM | 10:00PM | AE-1203 | |
| MM 665 | 01 | Experiments in Interactivity | MW | 2:00PM | 4:30PM | AE-1227 | |
| MM 680 | 01 | Interactive Content Develop | TH | 9:30AM | 11:00AM | AE-1227 | |
| MM 690 | 01 | Independent Study | ARR | WEB-ASYNCH | |||
| MM 698 | 01 | Internship | ARR | WEB-ASYNCH |
| Exhibitions | ||
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Guerrilla Grafters |
«WILD», SAFI Maison & Objet furniture and design fair. Paris, France. |
2016 |
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Prototype One |
Faculty Exhibition, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA |
2014 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Spontaneous Interventions, Governors Island, New York, NY Spontaneous Interventions, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Spontaneous Interventions, Venice International Biennale for Architecture, Venice, Italy Open Studios, San Francisco, CA Faculty Exhibition, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA |
2014 2013 2012 2012 2012 |
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The Lives of Women |
Curator and Participant in photo documentary exchange Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah Women’s College, United Arab Emirates and AINA, Kabul, Afghanistan |
2006 |
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Photography works |
Faculty Exhibitions, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt |
2005 2004 |
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URValue.com |
Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA |
2003 |
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Detroit - I Feel Good |
SoMarts South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
2002 |
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Roll Call |
SoMarts South of Market Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
2001 |
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The Shock |
Seismic Girl Re-Mix CD, Christchurch, New Zealand |
2000 |
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Departure Lounge |
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1999 |
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Dead Air |
Corporeal Sky, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand |
1999 |
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Phantom Line |
Sinusoidal, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1999 |
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Among the Missing |
Offering Light to the Shadow, New College, San Francisco, CA |
1998 |
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Phantom Line |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
1998 1998 |
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Garden of Eternal Time |
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
1998 |
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Phreak Boxez |
The Box Show, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA |
1998 |
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Garden of Eternal Time |
2nd Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1998 |
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Among the Missing |
Labyrinth of the Dead, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
1997 |
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Ballad of Expansion |
Operation Calm, Venue 9, San Francisco, CA |
1997 |
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Transcendental Yellow Rose |
Soft, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
1997 |
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Bouquet (online) |
Fahrenheit 451, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1997 |
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Museum of the Future |
Earart, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA |
1997 |
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Bouquet & Zip Gun |
Gun as Image, Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL |
1997 |
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Local 411 |
Yerba Buena Redevelopment Zone, San Francisco, CA |
1997 |
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50 Stars |
Bridges, Annual Artists Committee Exhibition, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1996 |
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Ballad of Expansion |
Inter-Galactic. 4 Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1996 |
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Discards |
Secession Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1996 |
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Museum of the Future |
SoundCulture, International Sound Festival, San Francisco, CA |
1996 |
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The Morgue |
New College, San Francisco, CA |
1995 |
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At the Gate |
Exploration City Site, Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1995 |
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Two Stories |
Bay Area Awards, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1995 |
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Variety is the Spice of Life |
Artists Respond to Prop 187, New College, San Francisco, CA |
1995 |
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Bouquet & Zip Gun |
Arrested Images, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL |
1995 |
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0 seconds, 12 minutes, 2 hours, 20 days |
Latent August, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA |
1995 |
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Variety is the Spice of Life |
Artists Respond to Prop 187, MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, San Jose, CA |
1995 |
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RAW |
Rice, Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA |
1995 |
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Dead Air |
Rooms for the Dead V, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1994 |
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Area Code |
Summer Sound Lab, The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
1994 |
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Commodities |
Commodities, Secession, Haynes Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1994 |
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Cartesian Luminaire |
Artist Television Access Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1993 |
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Throne |
Corazon del Barrio, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
1993 |
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Sail Cats |
1807 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA |
1993 |
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Zip Gun |
Object Show, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1993 |
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The Song of the Shirt |
One of a Kind, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1993 |
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Bouquet |
Rooms for the Dead, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA |
1992 |
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365° |
The Lab, San Francisco, CA |
1992 |
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Eat the Louvre |
Anti-Matter Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1992 |
| Publications | ||
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Guerrilla Grafters, Margaretha Haughwout, Tara Hui and Ian Pollock |
ISEA 2015 Proceedings Extended Abstract (2p) with Poster Presentation |
2015 |
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Biasmap - A Spatial Epidemiology of Hate |
AMOS | Aus guten Gründen seit 1968 2013 Issue 2 |
2013 |
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Laughter - Every Joke Is A Tiny Revolution |
AMOS | Aus guten Gründen seit 1968 2013 Issue 1 |
2013 |
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Occupy Possibilities – Reflections On Occupy, Art And Activism |
AMOS | Aus guten Gründen seit 1968 2012 Issue 3 |
2012 |
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Educating the Third Mind |
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism vol 27, No. 3, November/December |
1999 |
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Local 411: |
Leonardo Journal vol 31:4, Leonardo On-Line (ISAST) online |
1998 |
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Intimacy, Concept, Interaction: Artistic Potential of Voice Mail and the Telephone |
Public Culture, Duke University Press, 26/1998 |
1998 |
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Guerrilla Grafters, Poster Session |
ISEA 2015 – DISRUPTION Poster Session Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia |
2015 |
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Game Jam—Teaching STEAM Across Disciplines |
HI-TEC, National conference on advanced technological education |
2015 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
TEDxSanJoseStateUniversity, |
2014 |
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Issues in Contemporary Web Design and Activist Art Practice |
Lebanese International University, Sidon, Lebanon |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafting |
Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz |
2011 |
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Islamic Art and Spirituality |
Gunn High School |
2008 |
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Garden of Eternal Time - Art and Spirit |
John F. Kennedy University |
1998 |
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Area Code – Telephone Art |
ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art, Rotterdam, NL |
1996 |
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Brain Jam, Afterschool Pilot Project |
Wells Fargo Foundation Grant |
2015 |
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Excellence in Teaching Award |
Honorable Mention, University of California, Santa Cruz |
2003 |
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NATOA |
Promotional Video Campaign First Place: Election 2000 Promo |
2001 |
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Eisner Prize for Excellence in the Arts - New Genres |
University of California at Berkeley Eisner Prize for Excellence in the Arts |
1998 |
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New Genres Interdisciplinary Project Grant |
National Endowment for the Arts/Andy Warhol Foundation Regional Initiative Artists |
1996 |
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Project Grant |
New Langton Bay Area Awards, San Francisco |
1995 |
Brain Jam After School Program HUSD & Eden Youth & Family Center
| Game Jam Related | ||
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CSUEB hosts quarterly game creating contest |
Sandoval, Paz, The Pioneer, December 2, 2015 |
2015 |
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Welcome to the Jam: The Making of Super Street Harassment RPG |
Mackey, Bob, US Gamer, June 6, 2015 |
2015 |
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Unleashing Game Boys and Girls |
Barylick, Chris , East Bay Monthly, July 2014 |
2014 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Related |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Cahier d'Inspirations/ Book of Inspirations" and video |
2016 |
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Guerrilla Grafters are Transforming Ornamental Trees in San Francisco Into Fruit-Bearing Trees |
Goyal, N. industrytap.com September 30 |
2015 |
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Grafting Fruit Tree Branches On City Trees Will Grow Free Apples, Pears. |
Staff, goodnewsnetwork.org, October 27 |
2015 |
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Guerrilla grafters secretly graft fruit-bearing branches onto San Francisco trees. |
Staff, 2015 revolutionnow.us, September 18 |
2015 |
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Guerrilla Grafters: San Francisco Trees Receive Secret Treatment |
Staff, Expanded Consciousness. October 4 |
2015 |
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Guerrilla Grafting: Public Trees Spliced to Bear Edible Fruit. |
Staff. weburbanist.com, October 22 |
2015 |
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San Francisco Guerilla Grafters. |
Husky, S. ressource0.com |
2015 |
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Guerrilla Grafters: A Refreshing Conflict. |
Muhlberg, H. fishandbicycles.com, October 5 |
2015 |
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Sermon, "Fruitful: Have We Fruit?," Luke 13:6-9 |
Quick, E. bethquick.blogspot.com, September 20 |
2015 |
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DIY Urbanism: Property and Process in Grassroots City Building |
Pagano, C. B. Marquette Law Review, 97. |
2014 |
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Visioning a sustainable energy future: The case of urban food-growing. |
Biel, R. Theory, Culture & Society, 0263276414536624. |
2014 |
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The Present Situation: Resistance, Activist Mapping |
Gray, E. Chapter 3 : The Present Situation: Resistance, Activist Mapping. In Resilient community in an era of abandon. Doctoral dissertation, University of Georgia. |
2013 |
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Ground Floor: Guerilla Grafters. |
Davis, D. 3storymagazine.com, August 29 |
2013 |
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Greedy Gardeners |
Anzelone, M. (2013, June 14). Retrieved November 1, 2015, from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/opinion/greedy-gardeners.html |
2013 |
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Verboden fruit en Lente in de Wa |
De Groot, C. degroenevinger.net, March 8 |
2013 |
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Guerrilla Gardeners Unplugged |
Simon, Terrie. Urban Dirt, March. 2013 |
2013 |
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Come Here And Take A Lesson From The Lovely Lemon Tree |
Feldstein, L. (2012, October 11). planetizen.com |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Staff, Out of Place. Radio Netherlands Worldwide. March |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Secretly Graft Fruit-Bearing Branches onto San Francisco Tree |
Boyer, Mark. Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation Eco Architecture Green Building, September 17 |
2012 |
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Tasty, and Subversive, Too |
Brown, Patricia Leigh. The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 5 May 2013. |
2012 |
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Renegade Arborists Creating Forbidden Fruit in San Francisco |
Crawford, Amy. The San Francisco Examiner. The San Francisco Examiner, 4 Jan. |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Covertly Add Fruit-tree Branches to Ornamental trees |
Doctorow, Cory. Boing Boing ,25 Sept |
2012 |
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Resilient Disobedience: Guerrilla Grafting |
Finley, Klint. Technoccult RSS. 27 Sept. |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Turn Ornamental Trees into Fruit-Bearing Trees |
Froyo, Rene. The Bay Citizen. 27 Feb. |
2012 |
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In San Francisco, a Secret Project Bears Fruit |
Ganga, Maria L. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, (11 Sept. 2012 |
2012 |
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Civil Eats City Fruit Guerrilla Grafting Comments |
Larenas, Patricia. Civil Eats. N.p., (23 Mar. 2012 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Go out on a Limb |
Levy, Tom. SFGate. (27 Aug. 2012 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Morton, Simon. Radio New Zealand.(4 Feb. 2012 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Pitsenberger, Trey.The Blogging Nurseryman by Trey Pitsenberger. (2 Mar. 2012) |
2012 |
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Rogue Artists and Organic Graffiti |
Pitsenberger, Trey. The Blogging Nurseryman by Trey Pitsenberger (25 Sept. 2012). |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters: Splicing Fruit-Bearing Branches Onto City Trees |
Price, Andrew. Co.Exist. Fast Company (2012). |
2012 |
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Personal Biochar Kilns, Portable Factories, DiY Septic Tank Cleaning, and Guerrilla Grafting |
Robb, John. Resilient Communities RSS. ( 15 Sept. 2012 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters" Seek to Bear Fruit on Streets of San Francisc |
Scoles, Brian.Earth Island Journal | a Publication of Earth Island Institute,( 9 Mar. 201)2 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters |
Selke, Lori. EthicalFoods.com. N.p., (Aug. 201)2 |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back To City Trees |
Shavelson, Lonny. NPR. NPR, (7 Apr. 2012). |
2012 |
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Guerrilla Grafting, a How-To Guide |
Slayton, Joyce. The CHOW Blog. CBS Interactive, (11 Jan. 201) |
2012 |
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Guerilla Grafters Bring Fruit to the Masses |
Thomas, Natalie. SFBay.(Feb.-Mar. 2012 |
2012 |
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Guerilla Grafters Secretly Splicing San Francisco Trees With Fruit-Bearing Branches |
Wilkey, Robin. huffingtonpost.com 04 Jan. |
2012 |
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Fruitful Disobedience: Guerrilla Grafters Grow Undercover Orchards |
Wilson, Jenny. SmartPlanet. CBS Interactive, (17 Sept. 201)2 |
2012 |
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The Road Goes On |
Bingham, Daniel. ( 23 Dec. 201)1. theroadgoeson.com |
2011 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Create Illegal, Fruit-Bearing Street Trees |
Grover, Sami. TreeHugger. TreeHugger MNN Holding, (19 Dec. 201)1. |
2011 |
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Guerrilla Grafters: Splicing Fruit onto a City's Trees |
Staff, Fair Companies. Fair Companies, (13 Nov. 2011). |
2011 |
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Guerrilla Grafters Make San Francisco's Trees More Fruitful |
Scott, Katie. Wired. Conde Nast, (19 Dec. 2011). Web |
2011 |
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Other Reviews |
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What is Internet Art? |
Lunenfeld, Peter, artmagazin.co.yu |
2002 |
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Telephone Art |
Wilson, Stephen, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology MIT Press |
2001 |
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Women, Art and Technology |
Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women, Judy Malloy, MIT Press |
2001 |
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Public Art in Cyberspace |
Terri Cohn, Artweek |
2001 |
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In Search of the Telephone Opera |
Lunenfeld, Peter, Snap To Grid; A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures, MIT Press |
2000 |
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The Elements: Earth |
Terri Cohn, Artweek |
1999 |
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Day of the Dead, TechnoStyle |
DeMocker, Judy, Wired |
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The Precise Location of a Moment: Artists and Time in Public Space |
Cohn, Terri, Artweek |
1997 |
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In Search of the Telephone Opera |
Lunenfeld, Peter, Afterimage v. 25, n. 1 |
1997 |
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Hovering in the Multimedia Background |
Potts, John, RealTime |
1997 |