Gallery for Landschaftskunst presents:
Peter Fend (US/GER) OCEAN EARTH  - ALGAE-PROJECT

The future I have in mind, and which I want to flesh out is that more and
more of the methane supplied to vehicles, power plants and homes in Finland,
almost exclusively by a Finnish-Russian-German company named GASUM, can come
from algae.  It can come from the cyanobacteria, not quite an algae but
still biota in water, or from Cordaphyta, the successor green algae, or from
freshwater algae in the country's interior, but all would be gradually
replacing what will eventually run out:  fossil "natural gas."  This
requires an intensive program of managing, then exploiting, the living
material in the water bodies of Finland.  The practice can spread easily
into Russia, which has more water and more biologically-rich saltwater than
any other country in the world.

Such a scenario would probably have to be labeled as art because most of the
researchers I have been referred to inside Finland do not agree with it.
They advocate turning algae, such as the noxious eutrophicating suprlus of
organisms in the waters every summer, into, one says, bio-diesel, or into,
another says, bio-hydrogen.  I say both positions are wrong.   I say:  aim
to convert the annual surplus, usually in summer, of algae and bacterial
mats, or scum, plaguing Finland's waters, into methane gas.


In 1980 PETER FEND founded the Ocean Earth Construction and Development
Corporation which changed in 1994 to Ocean Earth Development Corporation
(OCEAN EARTH). Basically an artist-run, yet incorporated, research and
development think tank, Ocean Earth aspires to create necessary, useable,
marketable, and therefore saleable technology.
http://www.1904.cc/timeline/tiki-index.php?page=Ocean+Earth+Development+Corporation

(text: Georg Dietzler) 

Peter Fend CV