{"id":910,"date":"2013-07-12T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=910"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:52","slug":"plastic-silurian-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/plastic-silurian-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Silurian Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 650px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-plastic-ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-911\" alt=\"CW-plastic ball\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-plastic-ball.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-plastic-ball.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-plastic-ball-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join the IFF&#8217;s <em>Science and Art Resident<\/em> <strong>Christine Wertheim<\/strong> and help construct a giant Silurian sea organism out of discarded plastic rubbish. Come and be part of an evolutionary art-work. All makers will be credited in the resulting work and exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><em>We invite you to bring in your favorite plastic rubbish &#8211; particularly discarded airline earphones and headsets.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_905\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-Plastic-balls-+-sticks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\" wp-image-905\" alt=\"CW-Plastic balls + sticks\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-Plastic-balls-+-sticks.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-Plastic-balls-+-sticks.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CW-Plastic-balls-+-sticks-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plastic drinking straws and ball things awaiting construction into sea creatures,<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The IFF\u2019s 2013 \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/exhibits\/being-formed.html\"><strong>Science and Art Residency<\/strong><\/a><\/em>\u00a0extends the Institute\u2019s interest in hands-on practices inspired by scientific themes by hosting thinker-makers who work at the boundary of the theoretical and material. During summer and fall, our two residents \u2013 Christine Wertheim and Jake Dotson \u2013 will take over the Institute to use it as a studio laboratory and space for public engagement. This year\u2019s theme\u00a0<em><strong>Being Formed<\/strong><\/em>, focuses around the question of how form arises in the natural world, a subject that has inspired philosophers and scientists from Aristotle and Kant to Darwin and Einstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the IFF&#8217;s Science and Art Resident Christine Wertheim and help construct a giant Silurian sea organism out of discarded plastic rubbish. Come and be part of an evolutionary art-work. All makers will be credited in the resulting work and exhibition. We invite you to bring in your favorite plastic rubbish &#8211; particularly discarded airline [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}