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A welded steel matrix, like DNA, will be electrified to build an ongoing calciferous collaboration with marine organisms in Cancun.

Living Sea Sculpture: Contemporary Art as Coral Refuge

A welded steel matrix, like DNA, will be electrified to build an ongoing calciferous collaboration with marine organisms in Cancun.
A welded steel matrix, like DNA, will be electrified to build an ongoing calciferous collaboration with marine organisms in Cancun.
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Colleen Flanigan
Colleen Flanigan

257 backers pledged $16,331 to help bring this project to life.
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Submergence 2015

I arrived in Cancun yesterday.  Huge thanks to Ross Lysinger for providing US Airways buddy passes to contribute to this project. I was flying out of CA after a great... Read more

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Art Exhibit in NY + Mexico

If you're in New York, come by. I'm gallery sitting Tues, Wed, Fri, and Sat. from 12-6 PM.  We're on the 6th floor.  Please send a message so we can... Read more

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Cancun + Open Studio this Thursday

I opened my window just as flying over Punta Nizuc, where we intend to install ZOE.  Close to the shore by the bit of land jutting towards you in this... Read more

We have moved next door!

Heading to Cancun Thursday. Time to mark the spot for ZOE's ocean home at Nizuc Resort and Spa. Here's one visitor's view.

From DNA-Dividing at Club Med to ZOE at... Read more

Movie link for 1 week!

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O Magazine (plus movie coming to you!)

Hi all!

Here's a piece hot off the Oprah magazine printing presses. 

You know, I know, this project needs to be in the ocean! Please keep the positive thoughts and... Read more

Watch it Grow - Happy Chinese New Year

Welcome the Year of the Horse! 

A big year for travel, and all you oxes working so hard in 2014, it will pay off.  Watch out, Rats, not to get... Read more

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Webcameras in 2014

Happy New Year, dear Kickstarter backers!!  We are now 14.  That odd pubescent year of the sophomore.

News- We received sponsorship to add webcams to the sculpture in Cancun. Thrilling!!... Read more

Obstacles MELTING

It was perfect weather with calm, fluid progress. So happy to say!

Fernando Orozco, the lawyer for CONANP (National Commission of Natural Protected Areas) committed to having a revised draft by... Read more

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Cancun TODAY!

or tomorrow, depending when you read this.

I fly out Sunday to meet with everyone and visit the sculpture to move things forward in person.

When I received a draft... Read more

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NOAA Seminar: June 6 Invitation

You're invited!

Next week please join for a live seminar with NOAA. 

Art as Ecology- Coral Collaborations will be a 1 hour presentation and conversation with NOAA. 

Seminar Sponsors:The... Read more

Blue Beyond Borders

I'd like to invite you to a Blue Beyond Borders event: I Heart Blue - an ocean love affair.

Wed. 7-10 PM
ACA Galleries
529 West 20th Street
New York,... Read more

Power to the New Year!

In the final days of December, I heard word that Club Med has approved our permits and contracts.  Egg Nog to that!  (I prefer Coconut Nog). The agreement is being... Read more

It's between me and Club Med

We are entering fall, and after more than a year of awaiting the clearance--FULL clearance, to install LSS in Cancun, the marine park director and I have come to... Read more

Permit (sooo close!)

Hello all you supportive generous, patient people,

On August 31st, I received news that SEMARNAT (govt responsiblle for permit regarding a strip of land where our cable crosses) had signed... Read more

American Natural History Museum

Happy World Ocean Weekend!

Tomorrow is the Milstein Science Series Great Barrier Reef event at the American Museum of Natural History.

From 11- 5 we will be making a steel... Read more

TEDxMonterey; theBlu in Times Square

My energy is still high and hopeful for a July or August installation. Thank you for your emotional and financial contributions and belief in me, this project and the vision. ... Read more

Cancun Kiss

Here's a "Cancun Kiss" (song) to celebrate the coral refuge and all of you!  

http://www.smokingorgeous.com/?PageID=417994

Julie Stein (conservation biologist and co-founder of The Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network) and Aaron Raitiere... Read more

TEDxMonterey "Sea Change" -applications are open

In case you are heading to Monterey, CA this spring, or want to visit the west coast, there is an independently organized 1 day TED event on April 13, 2012.... Read more

From the Shore to the Seafloor

Exciting news!  From the Shore to the Seafloor: Living Sea Sculpture deploys is a staff pick with kickstarter today.  We're in row 8 right now (they move around)

http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/recommended?ref=sidebar#p1

here's... Read more

Holidays in December...(rewards)

it’s time to celebrate! I'm ready to offer digital print selections for all who contributed $50 and above!

Everyone is included in this update, regardless of your backing "tier," because... Read more

Thanksgiving update--TEDxWoodsHole Talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0ESRlQnbU

A day for gratitude, you all helped me get to this moment:

Here is my Living Sea Sculpture talk from TEDxWoodsHole.  And here are all the talks from the... Read more

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TEDxWoodsHole--Amphitrite will be there!

On Oct 15th, I will be attending TEDxWoodsHole: http://tedxwoodshole.org/

Presenting a 4 minute talk and participating in the innovation lounge with an interactive coral restoration simulation and some video...

Honored... Read more

Science Pub next Tuesday

What: I will present about Biorock and Living Sea Sculpture +

The RED ROVER mobile art gallery with the LSS working model and a crafty simulation of a restored... Read more

Progress in Cancun

What a full-tilt adventure! We completed the land-build of Living Sea Sculpture. No less than 14 anchors to hold it to the seafloor once installed. Plans to... Read more

cancun...progress

I have been here now for nearly a month, and the sun had tinted my face from the hours of working in an open air space we tried to make... Read more

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sculpture concept models/ download "Reef Reborn"

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rewards...Sea Stories

To keep you all in the loop,  the kickstarter funds take a couple weeks to be available.  In the mean time, I'm setting up the authorization for those many of... Read more
Successfully raised $16,331 USD with 257 backers

matching grant!

Thank you all for reaching the goal!...and way beyond!!! The Harnisch Foundation has generously matched the kickstarter funding. Every dollar doubles, so please keep sharing the project. In 42 hours,... Read more

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10 days!

Our 90 days are coming to an end soon! Still $3,200 to go!!

my favorite cultural blogger, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, featured the project this week:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/03/30/colleen-flanigan-underwater-biorock/

The Atlantic... Read more

22days to go!!!

Yes, 22 is my favorite number and that is how many days left to raise the final $5,700.

Thank you for backing and getting the word out, for sharing your... Read more

propagation

It was so wonderful the other day to get such a superboost of support when kickstarter featured this project!! Thank you all for jumping in, spreading the word, and getting... Read more

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