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Futurefarmers
"Futurefarmers are well known as innovators within the new media art and design contexts. They have exhibited internationally at numerous galleries and museums, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, the ZKM in Germany and at America's most prestigious art exhibition, The Whitney Biennale.Futurefarmers employ a fertile approach to every project; Web design, Interactive Installations, Print, Illustration, Exhibition Design, Animation, 3d Character Development, Packaging, Book Design, Database Development, Flash, PHP, C++, MSQL They have received numerous awards including the Webby Award and the Transmediale award among others." -ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, www.futurefarmers.com


Victory Gardens
"Victory Gardens is an ongoing project being developed with the City of San Francisco. It is a project that supports the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops and unused land into food production areas. It consists of growing, distributing and supporting home gardens, educating through lessons, exhibitions and web sites and planting demonstration gardens in public areas." - Futurefarmers



Civic Cycle
"Futurefarmers collaborated with Southern Exposure and Sabrina Merlo, Regional Advocacy Director, Bay Area Bicycle Coalition to create Civic Cycle. Civic Cycle includes a temporary bike share program, a public bike pump and a public forum to present existing city bike share programs as well as an open discussion to gather input on what San Francisco’s city bike program might look and operate like."- Futurefarmers

Are they artists?
I believe that this organization is a big group of artists who show there artistic ability by being active in the field by doing experimental work and interactive/real time projects. Since they are not hiding anything behind any doors like some other organizations, and getting people involved within the community, it shows that by being active within the community and making meaningful decisions that they are activists at heart. It is hard for artists these days to make a difference, but by creating an organization they are able to combine there artistic ability with other non-artistic organizations with makes the perfect duo to get things done and include the public to do something interactive with their community whereas other organizations turn people off by doing things to get the community interested. They have other projects like "Bingo Field" or "They Rule" which really tie in different situations around the world and they tend to show off the humorous yet serious side of things.


References
www.futurefarmers.com
-ZKM, Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany i.e www.futurefarmers.com


-By Julian Bachlow