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Call for papers on The Politics of African Contemporary Art – Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were imposed by the West during the colonial period. One assumes that by taking part in new and post-historical/ post-national networks of exchange, facilitated by large-scale… Continue reading Call for papers on The Politics of African Contemporary Art – Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

ZNE! in Sao Paulo

Opening: February 12, 2013 – 7 pm February 22 – April 7, 2013, Memorial da América Latina, Sao Paulo After stops in Mumbai, Addis Ababa and Beijing, the exhibition zur nachahmung empfohlen! – expeditionen in ästhetik und nachhaltigkeit (examples to follow! – expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability) is coming to Sao Paulo, Brazil which marks its… Continue reading ZNE! in Sao Paulo

Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

From February 14 – 23, The Kitchen and iLAND, Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, present the New York premiere of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive, a visceral exploration of the dancing body as physical archive of experience and place. The piece, which marks Monson’s return to The Kitchen after 15… Continue reading Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

Call for Submissions: Ars Eletronica – Next Idea Grant

Deadline: March 8, 2013 As a part of the annual Prix Ars Electronica, an international competition for cyberart, sometimes referred to as the Oscar of computer art, voestalpine and Ars Electronica are awarding the Next Idea Grant to honor new and extraordinarily promising ideas and to support the process of developing them further. People from… Continue reading Call for Submissions: Ars Eletronica – Next Idea Grant

Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE

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

Mark Dion at Museum Het Domein

The Macabre Treasury January 20–May 5, 2013 – Museum Het Domein – Sittard, Netherlands “Increasingly, my work has become macabre and laced with dusky pessimism. Early on I believed that ecological calamity could be averted by awareness. If people knew about issues like the loss of biodiversity or global warming, they would act so as… Continue reading Mark Dion at Museum Het Domein

Summer School – Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures

From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication STTF2013 Summer School – July 8-12 – ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability as… Continue reading Summer School – Sustainable Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures

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