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Coal: A Bridge to the Future on Coal

jlovett11211 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:53:55 +0000

The following videos are documentation from a mock-up installation titled: Coal: A Bridge to the Future on Coal

Coal A Bridge to the Future on Coal from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

Coal was the Wealth of a Nation Loop from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

A Little Soot Upon the Windowsill Loop from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

Solar Power Loop from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

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Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight

jlovett11211 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:43:11 +0000

The following is documentation of a mock-up installation for a piece called: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight. The loop is excerpted from the film: Coal: A Bridge to the Future

Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight (Installation) from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

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The Gavin Power Plant

jlovett11211 — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:40 +0000

These images were taken on a recent tour of the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire Ohio with Matthew Friday's art and ecology class.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The coal-fired Gavin Power Plant inCheshire, Ohio

General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power. Named after James M. Gavin, it is the largest coal fired power facility in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation. Its two units, rated at 1300 MWe each, were launched into service in 1974 and 1975.^[1]

The plant is located at 38°56′09″N 82°07′00″W
, just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) upstream along the Ohio River from a smaller, older coal-fired Kyger Creek Power Plant.

References

^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-14

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Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Without a Fight

jlovett11211 — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:37:40 +0000

This is a looped video segment from Exxon's Coal: A Bridge to the Future promotional video. The dialog repeated in the piece is as follows:

"Nature never gives up anything without a fight. It's a continuous fight and a challenge for a person to operate a piece of equipment and to take from nature things that she has put there for you to use."

This sentiment echoes the sense of self-entitlement that is commonly described by extractive industries. The confidence that resources were placed on the earth for "us" to use neglects and in most cases supersedes the notion that it may not be wise to extract the resources in the first place.

In installation this piece is projected as a 16mm film loop onto a large piece of coal. The projection bleeds around the coal leaving an outline of the film on the wall with a coal shaped void in the center.

Coal: Nature Never Gives Up Anything Without a Fight from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

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Power Equals Work Over Time: Test Exhibition

jlovett11211 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:08:21 +0000

Utilizing my “archival impulse”[1] I am continually and collaboratively developing a non-hierarchical archive of the region and its network of influences. The archive serves as a point of access for the viewer and a point of departure for artistic productions that, when completed, are folded back into the archive from which they were inspired. Many of these artistic productions take the form of annotated photographic prints of scanned sites, video documentation of exploration through visual prosthetics, and augmentation of existing archival materials but the reincorporation of these into the archive inspires new combinations and paths of research. This cyclical methodology of research and production facilitates an archive that is continually re-informed and reflexive. is the presentation of a cross section of this archive.

[1] Foster, H. (2004). “An Archival Impulse”. October110, 3-22. Foster describes the archival impulse as a “notion of artistic practice as an idiosyncratic probing into particular figures, objects, and events in modern art, philosophy, and history.”

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A Bridge to the Future

jlovett11211 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:18:12 +0000

A Bridge to the Future is a video loop made from a coal promotional video by the Exxon Cooperation in 1980 called Coal: A Bridge to the Future. This piece is a part of a larger sketch/mock-up exhibition that is currently installed at The Ridges. Photos of that installation are forthcoming.

A Bridge to the Future from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.

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Thesis Proposal Abstract

jlovett11211 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:04:02 +0000

Jeff Lovett Thesis Proposal Abstract

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Preliminary Coal Ball Scan

jlovett11211 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:20:37 +0000

The above is a test embedded image using www.seadragon.com

Click on the Image to zoom and drag to pan.

link to full resolution image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13756686@N05/4400942531/sizes/o/

A scan of three acetate / acetone peels that the paleo-botany department does on coal balls. Coal balls are the not quite coal cast off when coal mining on the fringes of a seam. This is a preliminary test scan for a future body of work inspired by: Thom Atkinson’s photographs of rock samples from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition of 1908.

http://www.thomatkinson.com/#/still-life

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Big Muskie: King of the Giants

jlovett11211 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:01:45 +0000

I just received a scanned copy of an article about Big Muskie!

citation:
Coal Age, 1969, Big Muskie; King of the Giants: v. 74, no. 12, p. 50-60

from:
Anne M. Huber, M.L.S.
Library and Public Information
Office of the Director
ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Phone: 217-333-5110
E-mail: huber@isgs.illinois.edu

Big Muskie; King of the Giants

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Coal collecting and Mine Tour

jlovett11211 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:51:57 +0000

Last week I drove to New Lexington Ohio to find a large piece of coal on the word of the old man that sells antiques in Shawnee. I talked my way into a tour of the Strip Mine / Landfill with Bill Glass the foreman of the landfill side of the operation. I did not take a camera but my phone did the job.

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