Riga’s Center for New Media Culture RIXC is welcoming submissions – articles, conceptual and artistic texts, research papers and visual contributions – from artists, theorists, scientists, researchers who are engaged with issues of social and ecological sustainability, and who are interested in a deeper understanding of technology, for the next Acoustic Space (Volume No. 12),… Continue reading Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE
Category: Literature
Out Now – CSPA Q9: Science/Art
The latest CSPA Quarterly issue on Science/Art features a preview of the CSPA Fusebox Festival study, writing from Sarah Moon and Alyce Santoro, a report from Moe Beitiks on the first annual Moscow Science Art Conference, and an excerpt from Lina Weintraub’s new book. “Through this issue, we explore the connection and complex relationship that… Continue reading Out Now – CSPA Q9: Science/Art
The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project Book and eBook now Available
The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project (2012) is now available as free pdf, as paperback at Amazon US / UK and as e-book at Kindle Store. Erik Sjödin is an artist and researcher based in Stockholm and Bergen. His practice explores interdependencies and interrelationships between humans and non-humans as well as questions of being and… Continue reading The Azolla Cooking and Cultivation Project Book and eBook now Available
Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species?
Peter H. Kahn, Jr., Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems Laboratory at the University of Washington, and Patricia H. Hasbach, Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical psychotherapist with a private practice in Eugene, Oregon, and a faculty member at Lewis & Clark College and Antioch University… Continue reading Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species?
Techno-Ecologies – Acoustic Space #11
The Riga Centre for New Media Culture (RIXC) has published the 11th volume of Acoustic Space: Techno-Ecologies edited by Rasa Smite, Eric Kluitenberg and Raitis Smits The publication takes a different perspective on the value of the relationship between humans, the environment and technology: We can no longer consider technology as the alienating “other”. The… Continue reading Techno-Ecologies – Acoustic Space #11
An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
Cultura21, in association with WOLFoundation, has the pleasure to announce its 7th Volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on Culture and Sustainability: edited by J. Zammit-Lucia We need new ways of thinking about issues that affect how we interact with our environment. The authors whose work is collected here make some powerful calls for change.… Continue reading An Orange County Almanac, and other essays
eBook: Promoting natural materials
This free eBook, edited by Päivi Simi and Outi Toumela, is the main publication of the long term project of the same title, taking place in Southern Finland and Estonia from 2009 to 2012. The focus of the project lies in raising awareness and spreading knowledge on the use of healthier materials as well as… Continue reading eBook: Promoting natural materials
No Longer the Miner´s Canary
We need to learn to adapt to the environmental crises we have created. Zoltán Grossman’s article No Longer the Miner’s Canary: Indigenous Nations’ Response to Climate Change published on Terrain.org argues that there are significant lessons to learn from indigenous peoples. These lessons focus on community building and sharing knowledge amongst communities, thus empowering people.… Continue reading No Longer the Miner´s Canary
Addressing Children’s Nature-Deficit Disorder: Bold Actions by Conservation Leaders Worldwide
The 2012 World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Jeju, South Korea turned out to be a big boost for the worldwide movement to re-connect children and nature. At the prestigious and influential Congress, which convenes every four years, more than 10,000 people representing 150 nations and more than… Continue reading Addressing Children’s Nature-Deficit Disorder: Bold Actions by Conservation Leaders Worldwide
WEAD Magazine
The 5th issue of WEAD Magazine is out, and it’s about enviromental/ecological artists responses to “the atomic legacy” – this issue is edited by Susan Leibovitz Steinman. It brings perspectives from Japan, Chernobyl, New Mexico, and US areas threatened by aging nuclear plants in Florida, California and Washington. (WEAD stands for: Women Environmental Artists Directory.)… Continue reading WEAD Magazine
