A-Trees

1. In this article, it talks about how we have made things that calculate how we are affecting our environment.. mostly by global warming. For example, 'A-trees' lets us watch the growth of a tree on your computer screen. The growth of the tree is affected by the levels of carbon monoxide surrounding your computer that is measured by a real-time carbon monoxide meter. Another example of this is 'Stump,' which calculates how many sheets of paper went through your computer and spits that same amount back out in the form of a tree. These projects encourage us to see the environmental destruction we are causing the world.

2. - the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
- the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
- the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
- a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
This classifies as art because it is a sculpture showing a deeper meaning to what we do in our daily lives. Instead of just saying that we waste TONS and TONS of paper, they use art to express it.
3. I think I like A-trees the best. It seems really, really unique and I like how the tree changes based on what's going on around you. That was a really cool idea! I think that 'Stump' is a really really cool idea but I think it sucks that it's wasting twice as much paper as you have since it prints out as many as you've used.

4. I kind of agree that the trees are not really alive when the trees grow and die in relation to the environment because then they are really only alive because of us. In a way, they obviously ARE alive but what they said really makes you think!! If the trees die based on us then they aren't really truly alive to begin with.