{"id":2107,"date":"2016-12-08T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2017-01-13T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T07:40:20","slug":"paris-agreement-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/paris-agreement-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Agreement + MAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2108 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2040-1024x459.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNA BASCOM\" width=\"640\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2040-1024x459.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2040-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2040-768x344.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>December 12 is the first anniversary of the\u00a0Paris Agreement\u00a0on climate change outlining commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the spirit of Paris, the IFF&#8217;s exhibition\u00a0<em>Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS<\/em>\u00a0continues at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madmuseum.org\/exhibition\/crochet-coral-reef-toxic-seas#\">Museum of Arts and Design<\/a>\u00a0in Manhattan. The show runs through January 22, 2017. Highlights include two bleached crochet reefs; a rare showing of<i>\u00a0The Midden<\/i>\u00a0(Margaret and Christine&#8217;s monumental personal-plastic-trash pile suspended in a fishing net as a commentary on our individual participation in oceanic trash); plus a site-specific, 30-foot long blackboard charting the chemistry of life and its entanglements with CO2 and plastic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2112\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2108.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2112\" class=\"wp-image-2112\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2108-1024x551.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credits: (Top)\u00a0Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS,\u00a0by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, at Museum of Arts and Design, NY 2016. (Bottom) The Midden, four years worth of the Wertheim's domestic plastic trash. [Photos by Jenna Bascom courtesy of MAD.]\" width=\"610\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2108-1024x551.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2108-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/091916_JBascom_4X5A2108-768x413.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Photo credits<\/strong>: (Top)\u00a0<em>Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS\u00a0<\/em>by Margaret and Christine Wertheim and the Institute For Figuring, at the Museum of Arts and Design, NY 2016. (Bottom) <em>The Midden<\/em>, four years worth of the Wertheim&#8217;s own domestic plastic trash suspended in a fishing net; in the background is the <em>Chemical Blackboard<\/em>\u00a0with a timeline of organic chemistry and the rise of CO2. [Photos by Jenna Bascom courtesy of MAD.]<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 12 is the first anniversary of the\u00a0Paris Agreement\u00a0on climate change outlining commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In the spirit of Paris, the IFF&#8217;s exhibition\u00a0Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS\u00a0continues at the\u00a0Museum of Arts and Design\u00a0in Manhattan. The show runs through January 22, 2017. Highlights include two bleached crochet reefs; a rare showing of\u00a0The Midden\u00a0(Margaret [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}