Every night from the 22 to the 29 of February 2008, the vapour emissions of he Salmisaari power plant in Helsinki will be illuminated to show the current levels of electricity consumption by local residents. A laser ray will trace the cloud during the night time and turn it into a city scale neon sign. Nuage Vert is a communal event for the area of Ruoholahti, which anticipates esoteric cults centred on energy and transforms an active power plant into a space for art, a living factory. In tandem, as a reversal of conventional roles whereby the post-industrial factory is turned into space for culture, Kaapeli (the cultural factory) becomes the site of operation and Salmisaari (the industrious factory) becomes the site of spectacle.

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This site intends to be a resource of diverse material documenting, analysing, and musing upon the impacts and aspirations of religious literalists in the public sphere. It is being produced in Australia - so that is its first focus. However, you will also find here information, ideas and reportage from other places, because even though context is everything, a global phenomenon is also something.

High above Earth an octet of nanosatellites projects a 'plasma box' that taps subatomic particle streams, or Solar Wind, to visualize wireless data uploaded from mobile communications devices on the ground. Volunteers from the cities below contribute their own 3D facial characteristics and verbal data to the constantly refreshed morph above them, while algorithms entropize their personal data within this massive representation of diversity itself. Age, gender, ethnicity and individual expression are incorporated and dissipated in AURORA. The dawn sprite of metahumanity.