AMY FRANCESCHINI

"Amy is a pollinator working in various media trying to understand the cultural perception of conflict between humans and nature. Her projects encourage new formats of engagement and production. Often taking form as long-term engagements with the public, her projects reveal ways that local politics are affected by globalization. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is currently a professor of Art + Architecture at University of San Francisco and a visiting artist at California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital and SFMOMA SECA Awards."
-this bio is fromthe Rising Tide Conference* webpage.

top ten best website hosts Futurefarmers, which holds info. to projects of Franceschini's. LOOK! Future farmers was opened in '95. "international collective of artists whose work used new media tools to foster sociability on the internet and through interactive installations. Futurefarmers hosts an artist in residency program that offers a platform for collaboration and research."

she started Free-soil in 2004. a public repository of links of individuals who are transforming their society - often cnosidered activitists, artists...

> Corinne, who created the languagless instruction for victory gardens, from a previous post is one of Amy's comrads and contributor to Free Soil.

*the RTC-the arts and egological ethics: "engage[d] in conversations and debates about the intersections of ethics, aesthetics, and environmentalism. We believe that global governmental policy can be deeply influenced by artists, designers, and architects and that public discussion of the interconnection between environmental justice and the global environmental movement is both necessary and urgent."
[among the many amazing supporters of this conference is Bonnie Sherk, who built A Living Library, community learning environments, often the form of parks, gardens, "portable parks" on free ways in SF