The Huntington Beach Art Center in California is currently holding an exhibition of three site responsive installations entitled “Land, Sea, Air” until September 6th.
One of the three exhibits is “Prana”- an inflatable dinosaur that measures and visualizes the quality of air in Huntington Beach. Every ten seconds, Prana collects new data from the cross-government agency website airnow.gov,  and changes color (utilizing an internal light) from green to red based upon the information it receives.

You can view a gallery of the exhibit here.
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NonCents is the work of a group of design students from the University of Washington. They have created an exhibition that uses interactive parking meters and an indoor display to explore reasons why the penny should be removed from circulation.

The Wall Street Journal recently delved into this issue when it published an article about the newly redesigned penny. The article is clearly in favor of abolishing the one cent piece, citing production costs as the main reason.
They explain:
In a 2006 editorial in the Journal, Harvard economist Greg Mankiw made a simple case for getting rid of the penny. “The purpose [...]

Bombay-based artist Ashok Sukumaran has an interesting exhibition titled ‘The Neighbour’ running at the University of Westminster in London. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, the exhibition explores the caravanning culture of the ’70’s and ’80’s. According to Sukumaran,
“The neighbour, neither friend nor enemy, is the one who may not be in your “network”, but is nevertheless in your world.”
The Arts Catalyst explains the concept further:
In The Neighbour, two ostensibly “mobile” habitats share space. One is a “static” mobile home from the late 1970’s, which developed as a way for lower-middle class families to partake in “caravan culture”, or escape [...]

An exhibition of works by legendary street photographer Martha Cooper is currently being presented at Subliminal Projects in LA until February 13th.  Martha Cooper is a photographer who has been capturing the graffiti and hip-hop scenes through colorful images since the 1970s.  She started by documenting imaginative children in New York City and quickly became involved in the development of hip-hop culture.  Her recent book, Going Postal, is a collection of street art utilizing postal labels for their canvas.  Throughout her lengthy and celebrated career, Cooper has proven her ability to capture the spirit of graffiti and the often-anonymous artists [...]

The Deitch Gallery is holding an exhibition on the work of SWOON, a 27-year-old NYC based female street artist. SWOON’s worlds are often populated by realistically rendered – and evocatively cut-out – street people, often her friends and family.
Inspired by both art historical and folk sources, ranging from german expressionist wood block prints to indonesian shadow puppets, SWOON is a “master of using cut paper to play with positive and negative space in a conceptually driven exploration of the experience of the streets.”
July 7 – August 13, 2005
Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand Street New York
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