For humans to survive, ecological artist Jackie Brookner says it is not enough to change the ways we fuel, feed, entertain and shelter ourselves. Something much more basic has to happen. We need to mainstream a different understanding of who we are, as individuals and as a species. She calls this “the being of human,”… Continue reading The Fargo Project: Jackie Brookner at TEDxFargo City 2.0
Category: Nature
Call for participation in survey on soil and art
If you have used earth materially or symbolically in your creative practice, or in some way addressed the value, function, or meaning of soil in your art, you are cordially invited to take part in an online survey about soil and art. “Although the arts play a critical role in sustainability discourses, the actual opinions, knowledge and practices… Continue reading Call for participation in survey on soil and art
Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution
In an effort to reduce the undocumented and unlimited rising of oceanic noise pollution, the US government is completing the first phase of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which seeks to document human-made noises in the ocean and transform the results into the world’s first oceanic sound maps. The first results… Continue reading Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution
Economics of Happiness Conference 2013
March 15-17, 2013 – Byron Bay, Australia The not-for-profit organization ISEC (International Society for Ecology and Culture) is, after the success of the first conference held last March in Berkeley, California, hosting the second international Economics of Happiness Conference in Australia. The conference is an annual event of the global grassroots movement whose mission is… Continue reading Economics of Happiness Conference 2013
SCANZ 2013: Wananga-Symposium
Developing the culture to create a sustainable civilization Feb 1st–3rd, 2013 – New Plymouth, New Zealand SCANZ (Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand) is New Zealand´s premier art, technology, culture and ecology event and involves a symposium, creative residency, and public events and exhibitions. Occurring biennially, it has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand… Continue reading SCANZ 2013: Wananga-Symposium
Shifting Baselines Residency and Exhibition Project
Gallery Talk & Exhibition Opening Monday, January 7, 2013 – 6pm @ Santa Fe Art Institute Shifting Baselines Exhibition January 8 – 25 – Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm @ Santa Fe Art Institute Shifting Baselines, an exhibition curated by ecoartspace founder Patricia Watts, opening on the 7th of January, 2013, will show existing… Continue reading Shifting Baselines Residency and Exhibition Project
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?
Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop
28th January – 1st February, 2013 Deadline for applications – Monday 26th November 2012 BiofiliA, Base for Biological Arts, Aalto University, Finland, in collaboration with SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia is organizing an intensive five day workshop for artists and other interested people. After the workshop the opening of the new laboratory and biological… Continue reading Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop
Grounded – Soil Film Festival
Celebrate Soil Awareness! As part of the first Global Soil Week, the film festival Grounded will take place at Kino Arsenal in Berlin on the 18th and the 21st November. On two days, a selection of international films on the topic of soil and soil protection will be shown. Ten directors present the diversity and… Continue reading Grounded – Soil Film Festival
