Open Call for Artists: What vital signs of life pull at your inquisitive mind and imagination? The Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) announces an Open Call for their annual, international, art-sci competition. The exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science, September 1, 2012 – February 3, 2013. For this year’s… Continue reading Science Inspires Art 2012: VITAL SIGNS
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Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
Brandon Ballengée – Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms May 5 – July 31 (extended) 2012 Visual artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée will exhibit sculptural installations and photographs at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in his first major solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition, entitled “Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms”, consists of three bodies… Continue reading Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change
Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. At the same time, however, this deep and long-established relationship with the natural environment affords many indigenous peoples with knowledge that they have… Continue reading Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change
White Mountain National Forest & Arts Alliance of Northern NH Invite Applications for 2012 WMNF Artist-in-Residence Program
Artists in all media are invited to apply for the 2012 White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) Artist-in-Residence program The program, a collaboration between the WMNF and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire, seeks to highlight the ways the arts can be used to explore and interpret the forest environment and forest-related issues. The residency… Continue reading White Mountain National Forest & Arts Alliance of Northern NH Invite Applications for 2012 WMNF Artist-in-Residence Program
International Conference:“Popular Culture and Social Transformation”
What can we learn about social transformations from popular culture? The two- day conference, entitled “Popular Culture and Social Transformation”, will be held in Oslo on 4-5 October 2012. The aim of the conference is through a variety of sessions and topics to address how popular culture is not only a mirror of society, but… Continue reading International Conference:“Popular Culture and Social Transformation”
An Ecology of Ideas Conference – July 9-13, 2012 (USA)
The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) and the Bateson Idea Group (BIG), a new organization exploring Gregory Bateson’s “pattern that connects,” have joined to hold a conference on the relations among ideas as seen from multiple perspectives. In organizing this conference they seek to find a balance between the spontaneous and the planned. They intend… Continue reading An Ecology of Ideas Conference – July 9-13, 2012 (USA)
The Cultural History of Climate Change
Call for papers Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 27 – 28 August, 2012 Historians since Herodotus have argued that climates shape cultures. We can no longer ignore the fact that cultures also shape climates. Today’s climate is increasingly a material effect of the history of industrialisation. The climate of the coming centuries will be… Continue reading The Cultural History of Climate Change
18th ASEF University on Sustainable Consumption
Call for participants – Tartu, Estonia, from 18 August to 1 September Deadline of the call: April 23rd already ! The 18th ASEF University (AU18), themed “Conscious Consumers for Environmental Sustainability”, will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from 18th August – 1st September. This two-week programme will gather up to 46 promising (under-) graduate students,… Continue reading 18th ASEF University on Sustainable Consumption
Engine Room Europe seminar “Creative Strategies of Sustainability”
Call for participants 10th – 15th of September 2012, ufaFabrik, Berlin, Germany Deadline of the call: April 23rd already ! Within the framework of the Engine Room Europe project of the European network Trans Europe Halles, the German partner ufaFabrik Berlin, organises a week of seminar around the theme “Culture and sustainability”, and more specifically… Continue reading Engine Room Europe seminar “Creative Strategies of Sustainability”
Conference ‘Nature and the Popular Imagination’ in Malibu CA
Call for Papers The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture http://www.religionandnature.com/society/ (ISSRNC) announced its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University on August 8-11, 2012. The conference theme will be “Nature and the Popular Imagination.”
