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Between Art and Architecture Welcome to the live blog for the Des Moines Art Center's 2016 Fingerman Lecture featuring Maya Lin! Ms. Lin is the 27th in the series made possible through generous gifts by Louis and Lois Fingerman. Throughout her career, Ms. Lin has maintained a careful balance between art and architecture, creating a remarkable body of work that includes large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works, and memorials.

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a system that generates electricity from plants “Through photosynthesis plants produce organic matter. The excess part of this production is excreted via their roots. The technology of Plant-e is based on a process in which bacteria convert that organic matter. During this electrons are released that you can ‘harvest’ as electricity with the help of electrodes