La Monarca- The World's First Solar Mural Artwork

Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), founded by Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, is an organization dedicated to devising

alternative energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a Orders of magnitude (time), human timescale. It includes sources such as Solar power, sunlight, wind power, wind, the movement of Hydropo ...

solutions through sustainable design and

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by providing platforms for scientists and engineers to collaborate with artists, architects and other creatives on public art projects that generate

sustainable energy Energy is sustainable if it "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Most definitions of sustainable energy include considerations of environmental aspects such as greenh ...

infrastructures. Since 2010, LAGI has hosted biannual international competitions stimulating artists to design public art that produces renewable energy. Sites for these contests have included Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Copenhagen, Denmark, New York City and Santa Monica, California. Land Art Generator Initiative also led efforts that have resulted in the world's first Solar Mural artworks.

LAGI International Design Competitions

Every two years since 2010, Land Art Generator Initiative has conducted international competitions leading design teams from over forty countries to create for art-based solutions to renewable energy challenges. 2010 - Adu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2012 -

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, New York 2014 -

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2016 - Santa Monica, California 2018 - Melbourne, Australia 2019 - Abu Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2020 - Fly Ranch,

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2022 - Mannheim, Germany

Solar Mural Artworks

The world's first Solar Mural artworks, developed through leadership from the Land Art Generator Initiative, are located in San Antonio, Texas. These artworks are the result of an advanced

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technology that allows light to filter through an image-printed film adhered to solar panels. The first is a stand-alone work called, ''La Monarca.'' The world's first wall-mounted Solar Mural artwork is on the facade of Brackenridge Elementary School.

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