The French art critic/curator Nicolas Bourriaud (b. 1965) has been selected as the curator of the Taipei Biennial 2014. Titled The Great Acceleration, it will develop his curatorial concept for the biennial around the topic Art and Its New Ecosystem: A Global Set of Relations. Since 1998, the Taipei Biennial has launched its international programming in… Continue reading Taipei Biennial 2014
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PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
The Neue Galerie Luzern–Swiss Academic Association (NGL–SAA) together with the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, UK, has created a new PhD program. Embedded in the quality of the educational work achieved by the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, and the objective to promote knowledge of and deep engagement with all aspects of the arts, society… Continue reading PhD research programme in the Arts and Humanities
Art and Biodiversity: Sustainable Art?
[Plastik Art & Science] # 4 Ed. Agnès Foiret, online since February 15 2014 : http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/ The 4th issue of the partly bilingual (French-English) Art & Science Journal [Plastik], published by University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, is out. The five articles available in English are marked in red color below: Table of Contents : – Art, culture et… Continue reading Art and Biodiversity: Sustainable Art?
Arts and Ecology: emerging uses for digital technologies
Digital Creativity is a journal devoted to the intersection of the creative arts and digital technology. Concerned with both the practical and the theoretical, Digital Creativity offers a unique forum to researchers and practitioners involved in the interdisciplinary nature of making or using digital media in creative contexts. They include such disciplines as fine art,… Continue reading Arts and Ecology: emerging uses for digital technologies
USA: Art exhibition about climate change, coal and superfunds
In the new exhibition ‘Altered State’, which runs at the Holter Museum in Helena, Montana, until 13 April 2014, the popular American painter Monte Dolack takes a look at controversial topics such as climate change, coal, superfund sites, and the effects of extractive companies moving into Montana’s wild spaces. Reposted from Culture|Futures. Monte Dolack is… Continue reading USA: Art exhibition about climate change, coal and superfunds
Holland: Conference on the future sustainability of European culture organisations
The conference ‘The Future Is Not What It Used To Be’ aims to develop a range of practical strategies and tactics for the future sustainability of European culture organisations. Reposted from Culture|Futures. ‘The Future Is Not What It Used To Be’ is a three-day, interdisciplinary working conference on 2-4 April 2014, presented by Trans Europe… Continue reading Holland: Conference on the future sustainability of European culture organisations
EARTHING THE WORLD: CREATIVE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTS
Edith Cowan University Western Australia, on Feb. 19th, 2014. The aim of this Colloquium is to establish a dialogue between creative arts and critical studies researchers, scholars and students, around the idea of working with nature, as proposed by Warwick Mules in his book, With Nature, to be launched at the colloquium. Working with… Continue reading EARTHING THE WORLD: CREATIVE ARTS AND ENVIRONMENTS
CARBON 14: CLIMATE IS CULTURE EXHIBITION + FESTIVAL
October 19, 2013 – February 2, 2014 The Cape Farewell Foundation in Canada announced details today of four-month cultural engagement on one of the most pressing issues of our time— climate change. The Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Exhibition + Festival will take place between October 2013 and February 2014, encompassing multifaceted programs, including a major… Continue reading CARBON 14: CLIMATE IS CULTURE EXHIBITION + FESTIVAL
Sustainable Transformation of Global Society
Friday 30 August, 2013, Navigating Ecological Times, Whitechapel Gallery, London A study afternoon of presentations and discussion on art practice and sustainability with artists Lise Autogena, Fernando Garcia-Dory and Tamás Kaszás and led by curators by Maja and Reuben Fowkes. This symposium looks at the challenges of living in ecological times and the sense in which the current… Continue reading Sustainable Transformation of Global Society
Call for papers
Deadline 15 September 2013 Arts Conference : “Spectres of evaluation, rethinking : arts/comunity/value”, Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia, 6-7 February 2014 The making of art seems to be haunted by spectres of evaluation, with competing claims and judgments about the limits, uses, and value of art. This international conference will examine critical approaches to… Continue reading Call for papers
