Publications as Author
Multidisciplinary Ecological Art
With published work relating to art, law, and science, Aviva Rahmani has taken a multidisciplinary approach to ecological art. Her unique viewpoint combines feminism with a will to save the environment and draws upon her diverse areas of expertise. She has written extensively about her work with complex adaptive systems and her trigger point theory.
Aviva Rahmani’s new book ‘Divining Chaos The Autobiography of an Idea’ from New Village Press.
See reviews of Divining Chaos here: Reviews
Editor of Books / Chapters in Books
Organizing the Approach in “Ecoart in Action,” an Anthology of writings About Teaching Ecological Art, edited by Christopher Fremantle, Amara Geffen, Aviva Rahmani and Ann Rosenthal. New Village Press. 2022.
Blued Trees as Policy: art, law, science and the Anthropocene in Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene Edited by Julie Reiss, Wilmington, Delaware: Vernon Press. 2019.
Rocks, Radishes, Restoration: on the relationships between clean water and healthy soil Aviva Rahmani and Ray Weil in Field to Palette Edited by Alex Toland, Jay Stratton Noller and Gerd Wessolek, Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2018.
1000x Landscape Architecture, Germany: Braun. 2009.
The Butterfly Effect of Hummingbirds: environmental triage: disturbance theory, trigger points, and virtual analogs for physical sites in Sustainability: a new frontier for the arts and cultures Edited by Sacha Kagan and Volker Kirchberg, Waldkirchen: VAS-Verlag pp: 264-289. 2008.
Practical Ecofeminism in Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism edited by Karen Frostig and Kathy A. Halamka, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 315. 2007.
Articles in Journals & Magazines
The Music of the Trees: The Blued Trees Symphony and Opera as Environmental Research and Legal Activism Leonardo Music Journal 2019 Vol. 29, 8-13. 2019. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/lmj_a_01055
Blowin’ in the Wind” M/E/A/N/I/N/G: The Final Issue on A Year of Positive Thinking December 2016. https://ayearofpositivethinking.com/2016/12/17/
The Spirit of Change: Water, Policy and Ecological Artmaking Center for Humans and Nature October 21 2016 https://www.humansandnature.org/the-spirit-of-change
Blued Trees on the front lines journal excerpts The Brooklyn Rail, November 5th 2015.
https://brooklynrail.org/2015/11/criticspage/blued-trees-on-the-front-lines-journal-excerpts
Blued Trees CSPA Quarterly Issue 12, August 3, 2015.
A Community of Resistance: Collaborative Work with Science and Scientists.” WEAD Magazine (an online magazine). Issue 7, CREATING COMMUNITY, 2014.
Fish Story Memphis: Memphis is the Centre of the World Journal for Environmental Studies and Sciences [online] Vol. 4 (2; June 2014): 176–179.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13412-013-0150-z
Triggering Change: A Call to Action Public Art Review Vol. 24, Issue 48, Spring/Summer 2013.
Mapping Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism PJIM, Vol.4, Issue 2, Winter pp.1-9. 2012.