Practitionor: Joseph DeLappe
Project 929: Mapping the Solar
Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention
May 19th through 29th, 2013
http://project929.tumblr.com/livestreaming
Project 929: Mapping the Solar, is a 460 mile bicycle ride to drag pieces of chalk to physically and symbolically draw a line around an area that would be large enough to create the worlds largest solar farm – one that could provide enough energy for the entire United States.
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that a 100 by 100 mile square solar farm in the American Southwest would be “more than enough to meet the country’s entire energy demand.”
http://www.livescience.com/3115-energy-debates-solar-farms.html
Beginning May 19th, 2013, media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe (
