:Doron Gazit

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Gazit is documenting ecological devastations at locations affected by climate change in his temporary art installation named, Red Line Project. Doron Gazit is quoted saying, "Red Line Project was created as a metaphor for the blood vein of Mother Nature, alerting observers to the urgent need to remedy and protect our endangered environment. The vein turns into a 3D line, while the devastated landscapes are my largescale canvas."{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}

Gazit's Red Line Project has been installed in the sinkholes of the Dead Sea in Israel, melting Knik Glaciar in Alaska, the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the Salton Sea in California. He has planned future installations along the Amazon River, the forests of the Sumatra and Borneo, and the floating islands of garbage in the oceans.{{Citation|last=Maya Margit|title=Keeping the Dead Sea alive: Artist Doron Gazit creates eye-popping installations in Israel, i24news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgokyCcEYP4|access-date=2018-12-14}}

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Between 1996 and 2016 Gazit produced interactive art installations titled “Sculpting the Wind“ and “Visualizing the Invisible” in which he conceptually visualizes a dialogue between the sun and the wind using balloons and involving the participation of many people in multiple locations. As quoted by Gazit: "The wind fills the tubes with air, imprinting its motions on the tube from inside, and guiding its way forward - creating a dialog with mother nature - a conversation with the wind, the sun and the earth beneath them." His settings are meant to reference the anthropocene – mankind’s interface with nature, technology, and industry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/tickling-the-sky-66838097/|title=Tickling the Sky|website=Smithsonian}}

Gazit's works are considered site specific art.{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/environmental-artist-doron-gazit|title=Environmental Artist Doron Gazit Sculpts the Wind|last=Linn|first=Sarah|date=2016-05-05|website=KCET|language=en|access-date=2018-12-20}}

Air Dimensional Design was founded by Doron Gazit. Gazit was invited to decorate nine different venues for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He used polyethylene AirTubes as temporary architecture – which Gazit calls AirChitecture.{{Citation|last=AirDD|title=AirDD's Fly Guys at the 1996 Olympics Games|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-jvoJEyG-8|access-date=2018-12-14}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/arts/what-do-these-giant-balloons-have-to-do-with-global-warming-6507720|title=What Do These Giant Balloons Have to Do With Global Warming?|last=Recinos|first=Eva|date=2016-01-26|website=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2018-12-20}} Gazit is credited as a co-inventor of the dancing inflatable which was developed for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.{{Cite web|url=https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-buoyant-balloon-art-that-will-take-your-breath-away/|title=Gallery: Buoyant balloon art that will take your breath away|date=2017-05-09|website=ideas.ted.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-20}}{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/re-form/biography-of-an-inflatable-tube-guy-c3e8d4f04a63|title=Biography of an Inflatable Tube Guy|first=Sam|last=Dean|date=October 20, 2014}}

File:Red Line Project in the ruins of the Desert Beach at the Salton Sea.jpg|Red Line at the Salton Sea

File:Red Line Project showing the melting Knik glacier in Alaska.jpg|Red Line at the melting glaciers of AK

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File:Sculpting the Wind at sunset.jpg|Sculpting the Wind at sunset

File:Sculpting the Wind.jpg|Sculpting the Wind

File:Air Pyramid.jpg|Air Pyramid

File:Art Center event - at the Wind Tunnel.jpg|Art Center event at the Wind Tunnel

File:AirDD - Tunnel of arched Airtubes.jpg|Tunnel of arched Airtubes

File:Opening of Epic Media studios.jpg|Opening of Epic Media studios

File:Medusa Hi-Light.jpg|Medusa Hi-Light

File:Wicks Hi-Light.jpg|Wicks Hi-Light

File:Fly Guy 98 Super Bowl.jpg|Fly Guy 98 Super Bowl

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Category:Balloon artists

Category:1953 births

Category:Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design alumni

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