Through art and activism, we are able to find new information through art pieces which at one point were more then likely not available to us in the past.
The first image which is an original piece of art by ‘Favianna’ is based on the farmers and crop harvesters in Latina America. They have been forced to constantly work day in and day out to survive and through all of this, the NAFTA trade agreement as well as the United States of America have not, in any which way helped but rather worsen the situation at hand because of the high demand of both the trade agreement and country.
“The domination of genetically modified seeds, along with unfair trade agreements such as NAFTA, is destroying the way of life for farmers all over Latin America as well as strangling bio-diversity. The U.S. model of big agribusiness is hitting our people hard from many angles, from how we work to what we eat to how we grow it. Meanwhile, back home, Latino youth grow up in urban food deserts, where access to clean, healthy and whole food is rare. This unsustainable food situation is beyond craziness!. The dominant model of globalized, industrialized food is costly for the earth, for the farmers, and for ourselves.”[1] (Favianna)
This represents the facts that globalization does not benefit everyone apart of it. The standards of living must rise for one area but only through demolishing another, this brings up the idea that if globalization were not to happen, would different countries and or cities look and feel very different then they do today if they had a lot more chances and if globalization was not to occur since in that scenario their farm lands and people would not be driven to work until death.
The Second image is depicted as a fight for water and the fact that water can be used “as a weapon” by anyone who is I control of it. Water is the main source of life for any living mammal or animal and humans need this liquid to survive in everyday life. If one country controls a large portion of water where as another country may not have any fresh water whatsoever, the country who owns the larger amount would control since they are the ones who are being asked upon. This can work in many ways depending on the countries government and should not be used to favour a country or bias a country but as the past has told, this isn’t evident in all parts of the world where this has been a case. Water should be preserved on a natural level and distributed through all since all humans need water to live. If you and I are able to drink the fresh water given to us, people in other countries should to since they have as much right to live as you and I.
Through both these pieces it is evident that technology is not so much apart of this art work but rather there to help the experience of it as well as using technology to gain more of an awareness for what is being exposed in this series of images through the internet and the artists blog.
[1] http://favianna.typepad.com/faviannacom_art_activism/2009/05/3-new-pieces-to-fight-big-agribusiness-gmos.html
The first image which is an original piece of art by ‘Favianna’ is based on the farmers and crop harvesters in Latina America. They have been forced to constantly work day in and day out to survive and through all of this, the NAFTA trade agreement as well as the United States of America have not, in any which way helped but rather worsen the situation at hand because of the high demand of both the trade agreement and country.
“The domination of genetically modified seeds, along with unfair trade agreements such as NAFTA, is destroying the way of life for farmers all over Latin America as well as strangling bio-diversity. The U.S. model of big agribusiness is hitting our people hard from many angles, from how we work to what we eat to how we grow it. Meanwhile, back home, Latino youth grow up in urban food deserts, where access to clean, healthy and whole food is rare. This unsustainable food situation is beyond craziness!. The dominant model of globalized, industrialized food is costly for the earth, for the farmers, and for ourselves.”[1] (Favianna)
This represents the facts that globalization does not benefit everyone apart of it. The standards of living must rise for one area but only through demolishing another, this brings up the idea that if globalization were not to happen, would different countries and or cities look and feel very different then they do today if they had a lot more chances and if globalization was not to occur since in that scenario their farm lands and people would not be driven to work until death.
The Second image is depicted as a fight for water and the fact that water can be used “as a weapon” by anyone who is I control of it. Water is the main source of life for any living mammal or animal and humans need this liquid to survive in everyday life. If one country controls a large portion of water where as another country may not have any fresh water whatsoever, the country who owns the larger amount would control since they are the ones who are being asked upon. This can work in many ways depending on the countries government and should not be used to favour a country or bias a country but as the past has told, this isn’t evident in all parts of the world where this has been a case. Water should be preserved on a natural level and distributed through all since all humans need water to live. If you and I are able to drink the fresh water given to us, people in other countries should to since they have as much right to live as you and I.
Through both these pieces it is evident that technology is not so much apart of this art work but rather there to help the experience of it as well as using technology to gain more of an awareness for what is being exposed in this series of images through the internet and the artists blog.
[1] http://favianna.typepad.com/faviannacom_art_activism/2009/05/3-new-pieces-to-fight-big-agribusiness-gmos.html
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