Symposium + Film Series September 19–21, 2014, New York A three-day event gathering together artists, scholars and curators examining the mediated and aesthetic dimensions of human-made infrastructures that shape almost every aspect of modern life. Exploring data centers, oil pipelines, securitized border zones, waste treatment plants and more, 12 presentations and 17 films ask the… Continue reading Lines and Nodes: Infrastructure, Media and Aesthetics
Category: Arts
Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)
Reposted from http://www.toolsforaction.net/carbon-bomb-blows-up-near-west-point/ This september, a 30-foot carbon bomb blew up in the airspace over the Hudson River in front of West Point Military Academy. An inflatable bomb pressurized with carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and oxygen contained in outer shell of silver radiant barrier foil, the carbon bomb was manufactured as part of a research program… Continue reading Carbon Bomb Blows Up Near West Point Military Academy (West Point, New York 2014)
iLANDing Laboratories Initiative
Request for Proposals – 2015 iLANDing Laboratories Initiative Due October 20 send to info@ilandart.org Following the successful inaugural year of the iLANDing Laboratory Initiative, the program will continue for a second year. The 2015 iLANDing Laboratories will continue in an experimental format as a series of workshops/laboratories designed by members of the iLAND community as… Continue reading iLANDing Laboratories Initiative
If the city were a commons
An alternative arts development programme If the city were a commons what would it look like, taste like, sound like, feel like, and smell like? How would artists and other creative individuals develop their skills and hone their practice? Through a series of artists talks, workshops, field trips, residencies, and reading groups, On Site Projects… Continue reading If the city were a commons
S.O.S. ACTION Guide
reposted from http://ecoartspace.blogspot.ro The recently completed S.O.S. ACTION Guide is ready for download HERE! This is the second in a series of ten Learning Guides produced by ecoartspace including replicable social practice public art works. Since 2009, Tattfoo Tan has developed S.O.S. to include participation in certification programs for composting, pruning, and community engagement, then… Continue reading S.O.S. ACTION Guide
Artivism – Artist talk by Shai Zakai
Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Repost. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23- 27, 2015 University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE (INCLUDING SUBMISSIONS PAGE) WILL BE LIVE IN SEPTEMBER, 2014: www.uidaho.edu/asle In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoyevsky explores relations between modernity and its discontents at an important historical conjuncture: the novella’s unnamed, unpleasant… Continue reading Notes from Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice
Call for Contributions: RACKET! Art in Pursuit of Peace and Quiet
“RACKET! Art in Pursuit of Peace and Quiet” is a forthcoming exhibition and book that explores excessive sound, a rampant form of environmental pollution. Artists are invited to address the symptoms of noise pollution or propose its remediation. Solutions, observations, reflections, defenses, offenses, anti-dotes are welcome.
The Yes Men: Out-Smarting Capitalism
3 July–30 November 2014 Museum Het Domein Kapittelstraat 6 Postbus 230 NL-6130 AE Sittard The Netherlands “Where criminals use identity theft to prey on the powerless and make money, we prey on the powerful and use their identities and position to get the word out about something that needs to be fixed.” The Yes Men… Continue reading The Yes Men: Out-Smarting Capitalism
Exhibition: Impermanence at Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
21 JUNE–24 AUGUST 2014 Rossi & Rossi Hong Kong Yally Industrial Building, Unit 3C Wong Chuk Hang Hong Kong T: +852 3573 9417 Rossi & Rossi is pleased to present Impermanence, an exhibition of new and recent works by contemporary Tibetan artists living in Tibet and around the world. The first such exhibition devoted solely… Continue reading Exhibition: Impermanence at Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
