Mike bianco

Artist•Curator•Researcher

  • About
  • Selected Practice
    • Eco-Art Practice
    • Anthrocomb
    • An Archaeology of the Present
    • We Are What We Eat
    • Hivecubator
    • Social Craft
    • On Becoming A Human Honeybee
  • Contact
  • About
    • Eco-Art Practice
    • Anthrocomb
    • An Archaeology of the Present
    • We Are What We Eat
    • Hivecubator
    • Social Craft
    • On Becoming A Human Honeybee
  • Contact
  Our Future Exists Because We Have Imagined It  was an exhibition and series of  workshops  that engaged the larger community of students, faculty, and staff at  Cornell College  in Mount Vernon, Iowa. These workshops and exhibit
       
     
Social Craft / Our Future Exists Because We Have Imagined It
The Mobile Institute for Anarcho-Communalist History and Social Transformation
       
     
Social Craft / The Mobile Institute for Anarcho-Communalist History and Social Transformation
 In 2012 I created a ceramic and wood version of the popular beer drinking game Beer Pong named “Block Cup.” The game was initially a response to the vast amounts of red plastic cups that would litter the streets of Ann Arbor every weekend.
       
     
Social Craft / Block Cup - PBR/Ukraine edition
 In 2012 I conducted a series of interviews with the ambition of assessing people’s larger social values. Participants were given a contract after which time I interviewed them based on four questions and twenty six coins. After participant
       
     
Social Craft / 25 cent piece
 In 2014, as part of my graduate studies at the University of Michigan, I worked with a group of undergraduates in a community-oriented sustainability project intended to support the Maasai community of Lesoit, Tazania. Our goal was to design and bui
       
     
Social Craft / Research: Tanzania - Bees & Rocket Stoves