WordPress Gallery: Tree BQ.mov. Functioning spinning BB-Q with 2 fire sources. To be debuted at the The Jack Hanley Gallery Opening Thursday Aug. 5, 2010, 6-9PM The Jack Hanley Gallery presents COSMICISM AND CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY From Northern California machines, robots, photographs A technologically mutated organic hybrid to of and for trees. 1. A bio-engineered permutation. (a.) a deliberate attempt to cross two parents with desirable characteristics and incorporate said characters in next generations. (b.) a synthesis of nature and technology (c.) to produce an anomaly. 2. Deviant transmogrification. (a.) post nature. (b.) new species struggling for life. (c.) an unholy marriage. 3. The Paradox of Technology. (a.) It could save us. Can it save us? (b.) It is killing us. Opening and closing nights will include BB-Q from a machine/tree BB-Q and the DJ stylings of only SF, CA music by multiple CA x-pats located in NYC. Our culture has an excruciatingly dangerous claim to have such complete understanding and command over nature that we can radically manipulate and re-engineer it with minimal risk to the natural systems that sustain us. How little control even the most ingenious among us have over the awesome, intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle. I want to save the world, or at least slow down its demise. I want to get back to what really matters. So, I thought, why not start in my own back yard? The exhibit includes an actual Monterey Pine tree robot covered with …