Global Warming

Since 1979 there has been rapid rise of atmospheric surface layer’s temperature, which accelerated melting of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers, and also a rising of temperature in middle latitudes. Over the last 50 years, the Arctic ice layer got on 40% thinner, and in number of Siberia towns people admit that the hard frosts are now in the past. Average winter temperature in Siberia rose almost on 10 degrees in comparing with 1950. In whole over the last 100 years average temperature of atmospheric surface layer rose on 0,3–0,8°С, snow cover area in northern hemisphere descended on 8%, at the average World Ocean’s level rose on 10-20cm. Natural habitat of many living organisms moved to the north following the increasing winter temperatures.

Dissolution of ice influences life of polar bears, walruses, fishes and birds. Consequently bears have to stay on the shore. They either die from hunger or eat their own babies. According to report of American Geological community by 2050 two thirds of polar bears population will die. They and other species extinct with increased speed.

Poster «Global Warming» (Anton Stogov, Russia) from the collection of VIII International Triennial «The 4th Block».
Selection of materials — Veronika Chernyavskaya.

«the 4th Block 2012». Selected authors

Adan Paredes Barrera
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska
Ajay Gajjar
Ajk Bjorn Piercc
Alexsandro Pallares
Ali Emrani
Ali Mirhosseiny
Ali Motamedian
Alireza Bakhshi
Alireza Givehch
AliReza Hesaraki
Amin Derakhshesh
Amir Enami
Amir Khataei
Amirhossein Rasteghary
Andrew Lewis
Arash Hashempour
Azarbouyeh Gholamreza
Babak Safari
Ben Drake
Bingnan Zhang
Bingyan Xue
David Blaiklock
Brian Garcia
Bu Yi
Byoung il Sun
Cesar Ali Hernandez Torralba
Chan Kuok Wang
Chan Wong
Chaur-Shuenn Jan
Che Che
Cheang Chiwai
Chen Hong
Chen Hou
Chen Hui
Chen Shaofeng
CHEN YI
CHEN Yu
Cheng Gow-chang
Cheng Wei Lian / Shou Wei Tsai
Cheng Zhou
Chengyi Yang
Chenhongwei
Chenhou
Chenxu Zhao
Chia Hsiang LEE
ChienChang-Chen
Chi-Fan Hsu
Chilei Kang
Ching-tien Lin
Chiu Lin
Chiu Sheng Yu
Chongxiang Wu
CHOU HIN AU
Dan Reisinger
Danny Warner
David Palomo
David Tartakover
Dawang Sun
Diego Andres Mesa Quintero
Dong Hang
Dong-Sik Hong
Drake Ben
Eddie Zhang
Eduardo Barrera
Elahe Khorasani
Elmer Sosa
Elzbieta Chojna
Elzbieta Chojna
Erfan kamali
Eric Cai
Erik Bridgeford
Esmailzadeh Ali
EWA WLOSTOWSKA
Fan Yan
Fang Chen
Fangyi Liu
Fatemeh Ghane Jahromi
Fazhan Xiao
FeiFeiWu
Fengquan Ye
Fjodor Gejko
GABOR FARKAS VARGA
Gan Senzhong
Gaomai Mai
Guili Ding
Gustavo Morainslie
Hadi Arjmand
Hamed Azizi
Hamed Mehrani
Hamid Reza
Hans Heydebreck
Haozhen Qi
Hashempour Arash
Haung-Chun Chan
Hayamizutian
He Jie
He Zhang
Hiowai Ng
Ho Meng yin
Ho Szu Jung
HO WAI MAN
Hoon-Dong Chung
Hossein Mohammadi Vahidi
Ilyar Jabbary
Ivan Tanus
Iwona Cichy
Jakub Haremza
Jamshid Arasteh
Jan Rajlich
Janusz Marciniak
Jerome Corgier
Jheng-Chang Chen
Jia Yuqian
Jiafan Xie
Jiang Yan
Jiang Yinggui
Jianjian Liu
Jing Hu
Jing Liu
Jinhua Wang
Joanna Frydrychowicz / Krzysztof Skrzypczyk
Joao Machado
Joe Scorsone / Alice Drueding
John TANG
Jun Zhang
Junbo Wang
Junjie Bian
Kai Huo
Kamen Goranov
Kari Piippo
Karolina Sztaba
Kei Sato
Kelli Urabe
Khayam Moayedi
Kristopher Garcia
Kuo Sung Yeh
Kuokwai Cheong
Lanny Sommese
Le Fu
Lee Min-che
Lee Qijun
Lei Yue
Li Haiping
Li Hua Kung
Li Qi
Li Qiongyan
Li Tao
Li Yandong
Liang Hongning
Lidia-Alina Nicolae
Lin Chen
Lin Feng
Lin Kai
Lin Shih Yang
Linda Ritoh
Ling-hung Sophia
Liu Bao
Liu Bingying
Liu Xiaowei
Liu Yuan
Liu Zhengfa / Yang Jie
Luis Antonio Rivera Rodriguez
Luming Guo
Mahdi Fatehi
Mahmood Karimpoor
Mahsa Behfar
Mahsa Khamenaei
Marcelina Rydelek
Mario Fuentes
Marlena Buczek Smith
Marta Czuban
Martin Galvan
Mary Rouncefield
MARYAM KHALEGHI
MASAHIRO KUROSE
MAX SKORWIDER
Mehdi Mahdian
Mehdi Saeedi
Mehrdad Kondroudi
Mei Liao
Melissa Plourde Khoury
Meng Gang
Mervi Pakaste
MI JUNG LEE
Michael Reichen
Michal Miksa
Michal Tatarkiewicz
MicHoi
MiHyun Kim
Min Chung
Min Su
Ming Xian Lin
Mohammad-Afshar
MohammadQasim Hussaini
Mohsen_Abbasghorbani
Mohsen_Gorji
Moises Romero
Mona Goudarzi
Mozhgan Morsali
Munoz Rodriguez Fabian Emmanuel
Nafise Azizi
Najmeh Yazdanbakhsh
Nana Gong
Naoki Hirai
Nazanin Tamaddon
Nelu Wolfensohn
Newsha Hashembeik
NGA IAN Si
Nikodem Pregowski
Nikolay Shtok
Obed Meza Romero
Onur Askin
Otmar Grissemann
Paredes Barrera Adan
Parisa (Maryam) Maleki
Parisa Tashakori
Pei-yi Chen
Pejman Haghjoo
Peng Jun
Peng Liu
Peng Ya Fei
Phil Risbeck
Primoz Zorko
Qiu Yong
Rachel Ayala
Rafi Munz
Ramin Rostami
Ramon Garcia
Ranran LiRen Qiang Zhang
RenJie Fang
Reza Jamshidi Shahmiri
Richard Doubleday
Rong Han
Saeed Sheikhbaglou
Saeed Zaree
Saleh Zanganeh
Samuel Verdugo
Santiago Solis
Santiago Solis
Sarah Boris
Scott Laserow
Seichu Sakai
SeijiMinato
Sena Sengir
Sepideh Hemmati
Seung-hoon Nam
Sevo Bosko
Seyed Mojtaba Rouhani
Shaobin Lin
Shih-chieh Hung
Shiyue Zhang
Shunli Liu
Shuoyang Yu
Siavash Fani
Sina Fakour
Slawomir Janiak / Witold Michorewski
Sosa Elmer
Taber Calderon
Takuji Omori
Talin
TamasToth
TANG HONG
Tang Wenguang
Taylor Engel
Tee Kho Mushtatov
Thomas Bohm
Tien Le
Tingjin Shi
Tomasz Kipka
Tomohiro Fukuda
Toshifumi Kawaguchi
Toshiyasu Nanbu
Touba-Mohamadkhan
Tzou Brad
Tzu-Chi Yi
Victor Santos
Vladimir Sabillon
Wang Zhijun
Wang Dan
Wang Ruiqi
WANG RUIXUE
Wang Yujue
Weijie Lu
Weiwei Shao
Wenfeng Huan
Wu Abner
Wu Chanjuan
Xia Li
Xiaofeng Chen / Ting Chen / Xin Zhou
Xiaofeng Hou
Xiaoliang Lin
Xiaoshen Ye
XiaoWei Xu
Xiaoyong Miao
Xin Long
Xin Wu
XinXin Li
XinXing She
Xinye Сui
Xu Wei Xiong
Xue Ruan
Yan Du
Yang Chao
Yang Wei
Yang Yong
Yao Tian
Yaron Liu
Yi-Fei Li
Yin Zhongjun
Yin Zhu
YinJing Xiao
Yiqu Chen
Ynho Ma
Yongjian Cai
Yossi Lemel
Yu Mengyao
Yu Ren
Yu Tian
Yuanhua Wu
Yulian Zhang
Yuqi Zhao
Yuqi Zhao
Zafer Lehimler
Zhang Li-yi / Zhou Jian-wen
Zhang Tong
Zhang Yong
Zhangxi
Zhao Chenxu
Zhe Liao
Zhen Li
Zheng Bangqian
Zheng Zhong
Zhengxin Qi
Zhenwang Chen
Zhenwei Hu
Zhonghao Wu
Zhonghao Wu
Zhou Zouli
Zhu Dongfeng
ZIJI YU
Zijia Zhao



Александр Грешнов
Александр Димов
Александра Васильева
Александра Лиманская
Алексей Утёмов
Алина Безуглова
Алина Рубан
Анастасия Журба
Анасатсия Кулаженко
Андрей Ситников
Андрей Шевченко
Анна Бауэр
Анна Изотова
Анна Маслова
Анна-Мария Кандалес-Воробьева
Антон Баранов
Антон Стогов
Антон Шлёнкин
Анна Кочкина
Анна Черная
Виктор Нефедов
Виктория Грабовска
Виктория Ситникова
Виталий Бондарь
Виталий Малыш
Владимир Чайка
Галина Лазарчук
Геннадий Буханов
Григорий Хромов
Дарья Дубровская
Дарья Ефремова
Дарья Калугина
Дарья Коробейникова
Дарья Литовченко
Дарья Маркина
Татьяна Дмитриенко
Дмитрий Лобов
Дмитрий Мириленко
Дмитрий Рекин
Евгения Хоменко
Екатерина Вершинина
Екатерина Коршунова
Екатерина Павленко
Екатерина Чикарева
Елена Грабилина
Елена Денисевич
Елена Лебедева
Елена Пискайкина
Елена Старанчук
Елена Фомина
Иван Дегтярев
Игорь Черный
Ира Оленина / Олег Верещагин
Ирина Еремина
Максим Скорик
Мария Гончар
Мария Окольничникова
Мария Третьякова
Маша Кулинская
Надежда Компан
Наталья Евтеева
Наталья Федоренкова
Николай Коваленко
Николай Корнев
Николай Пискулин
Николай Шток
Оксана Волковкая
Оксана Капранова
Ольга Блажко
Ольга Павлова / Екатерина Калацкая
Ольга Северина
Ольга Серова
Ольга Степанова
Ольга Филиппова
Оксана Хусейнова
Ольга Черепанова
Роман Скляров
Роман Фёдоров
Стефан Лашко
Феня Осташева
Эдуард Кулемин
Юлия Штадченко
Юрий Тореев
Ярослав Филевич
Graphinya-studio

EcoDiology: Cause and Effect exhibit

On the eve of the opening of «The 4th Block» 2012, in San Jose, California, we've launched our first international satellite exhibit: EcoDiology: Cause and Effect. This environmental poster exhibition introduced to American audience some of the greatest posters from «The 4th Block» collection created during the period from 1991 to 2009. The project, managed by our international curator, Olga Severina, is the first in a series of planned expositions abroad, aimed to introduce international audience to «The 4th Block» poster collection.
Opening of the exhibition was accompanied by a presentation and lecture.

Finally…

After almost two and a half years after the ending of the VII International Triennial «the 4th Block» we issued this catalog. Publication of the catalogue became possible with the support of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
Design of the catalogue was made by Maria Norazyan and Illia Pavlov, printing — «A4Plus».
Now each of Triennial participant can get a catalog for free, on your charge is postal services only.

We invite you to participate in the next VIII International Triennial. (http://www.4block.org/en/triennial).
We hope that new catalogue will be printed until April 26, 2012.

Deadly explosion at French nuclear facility

An explosion at a nuclear waste treatment facility in France has killed one man and injured four others, one seriously.

The Nuclear Security Authority says there has been no chemical or radioactive leak, and there is no danger to the public. It is being classed as an industrial rather than nuclear accident.

It took place at the Centraco facility near Marcoule, which was warned about security lapses last year, but was said to be making progress in a recent report.

«The unit was in a ventilated building made of reinforced concrete. Neither the ventilation system nor its filters were damaged, so the explosion did not cause a leak,» said the Institute of Nuclear Safety’s Thierry Charles.

The unit in question was an oven used to fuse what has been described as «low level» radioactive metallic waste, which was damaged in an explosion in the building. The state owned EDF utility runs all of France’s nuclear power stations, but subcontracts its waste treatment.

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