June 28th 2013 Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer, whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is currently an Associate Professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department in Computer Science and Environmental Studies and an active member of the net.art movement . Her work explores the interface between… Continue reading “The Artist Who Talks With the Fishes” NYtimes
Category: Arts
Making Sense : Fifth Annual Colloquium
July 12, 2013, ‘The Six Senses of Art’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “Making Sense” is a collective of artists and thinkers who assemble to create a vital, international forum that crosses between modes of thinking and doing. The project engages both the senses and the intellect and embraces a range of different perspectives and… Continue reading Making Sense : Fifth Annual Colloquium
Aesthetics and ethics in Environmental Change
June 2013 Aesth/Ethics in Environmental Change, Hiking through the arts, ecology, religion and ethics of the environment, Sigurd Bergmann, Irmgard Blindow, Konrad Ott (Eds.) ” Can aesthetics and ethics be integrated for the good of habitats, places and spaces? How can arts widen our perception of nature and deepen environmental ethics? Should the political meaning of… Continue reading Aesthetics and ethics in Environmental Change
Cape Farewell’s Sea Change programme
The Rural Artist Residencies has kicked off! Dorset, Uk Cape Farewell is creating a series of Rural Artist Residencies. Artists will be invited on to the Rural Residencies programme to engage diverse, wide-reaching audiences with the local narratives of Sydling St. Nicholas in Dorset. The idea is to involve the local community, encouraging neighbours and villagers to… Continue reading Cape Farewell’s Sea Change programme
Art and Ecology?
May 17-8 September 2013, Make active choices. Art and ecology : How? , Museum of Modern Art Freiburg is particularly involved in ecological issues; as a “Green city” it takes part in current discussions about sustainable development. In this dynamic, artists can bring new ideas : by getting involved, infiltrating, polemicising, reinterpreting and offering alternatives.For the exhibition… Continue reading Art and Ecology?
Imagining Natural Scotland’s projects
June 22, 2013 Imagining Natural Scotland is a major new interdisciplinary project for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013. Initiated by Creative Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the University of St Andrews, it will explore the interplay between the natural world and its representation, and promote deep collaboration and knowledge exchange between the creative and… Continue reading Imagining Natural Scotland’s projects
‘Political Art’ of Istanbul as Politics of the Middle East
Leuphana University (HS 4), Lüneburg (Germany), July 1st 2013 – 18:00 The guest lecture will focus on the formation of the contemporary art field in Istanbul and how a particular category of ‘political art’ emerged from that field. First, Ni l Uzun will present the historical background of the formation of the contemporary art field… Continue reading ‘Political Art’ of Istanbul as Politics of the Middle East
Summer of Soil
June 15 – August 15, 2013 Summer of soil : A Green Exhibition in Järna, Sweden Summer of Soil is a 5-week, multi-disciplinary accelerator program designed to awaken and inspire a collaborative movement to rebuild and maintain living soils. The program will include a series of hands-on soil-related courses, an exhibition of regenerative growing practices… Continue reading Summer of Soil
Exhibition : Intersections
Sunday, 30 June 2013, in Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold artspace,UK Commenting on her new project which features a combination of photography, video and sound installations as well as interactive elements across previously undiscovered art display areas in Perth Concert Hall’s Threshold artspace, Su Grierson said: Using combinations of video, sound and image I create installations… Continue reading Exhibition : Intersections
Walking as Art
March 2013, Walking and Mapping, Artists as cartographers, by Karen O’Rourke Contemporary artists beginning with Guy Debord and Richard Long have returned again and again to the walking motif. Debord and his friends tracked the urban flows of Paris; Long trampled a path in the grass and snapped a picture of the result (A Line… Continue reading Walking as Art
