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Atmospheres of Protest

Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art Central European University Budapest (Hungary) – 11 May 2012 The upsurge of new popular movements from Egypt to Greece and Bucharest to New York has engendered an atmosphere of defiance and social creativity that has captured the global imagination. Beyond the ebb and flow of individual protest movements, this… Continue reading Atmospheres of Protest

Sustainability as a minor at US art schools

Article in the Huffington Post: “Sustainability Has Become a Growing Focus of Artists’ (and Art Schools’) Attention” A recent article in the Huffington Post notices the growing interest in sustainability and eco-art at some US American art schools (such as e.g. the Maryland Institute College of Art). To read the article: click here

Isomorphism

ISOMORPHISM is an online art magazine (based in Romania) that publishes on interaction of contemporary art with a wide range of today’s realities. From political philosophies and civil movements to present day nanotechnology and biotechnology implicated in artistic creation the magazine’s subjects include articles, essays, reviews, presentation of ideas, interviews, events and projects. Link: ISOMORPHISM… Continue reading Isomorphism

FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012

Milan Design Week, April 17-22 2012 (Italy) – a project by Claudia Zanfi (director of aMAZElab / Laboratorio del Paesaggio) Garibaldi Train Station, Milan – Opening April 17th at 12 pm The GREEN ISLAND project was created out of the need to bring citizens back to a dimension of greater harmony between the urban fabric… Continue reading FLORA URBANA – GREEN ISLAND 2012

ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”

In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues,  the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia… Continue reading ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”

Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I

Friday, 13th April, 2012 – 6:00 pm onwards – New Delhi Khoj Studios , S-17 Khirkee Extension Works on view till 18th April, 2012  – 11:00 am – 7:00pm In Context: Public.Art.Ecology, Food Edition I is an International Residency with art projects and interventions in public spaces exploring the intersection between art and ecology through the… Continue reading Talk & Opening: In Context:Public.Art.Ecology – Food Edition – I

Eco Values Art Exhibition at 2012 Eco Design Fair in Shanghai

The 2012 Shanghai Eco Design Fair will be held on April 14 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the Cool Docks, 515 Zhongshan South Road, Shanghai. An exterior plaza at the Cool Docks will be devoted to giving the public an opportunity to interact with representatives from Shanghai environmental organizations and NGOs and view an art… Continue reading Eco Values Art Exhibition at 2012 Eco Design Fair in Shanghai

Etienne de France – Tales of a Sea Cow

2012, March 30 to June 24 – Parco Arte Vivente, Torino (Italy) Curated by Annick Bureaud – Opening: March 29 at 6.30 pm In a finis terrae like scenery – rarefied, cold and blurring – takes place the story of a scientific team engaged in a field research across the seas of Iceland and Greenland,… Continue reading Etienne de France – Tales of a Sea Cow

Animism – Conference at the „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“

Berlin 16th and 17th of March 2012 starting at 14:00 Towards the end of the 19th century, Animism was perceived as a collection of misguided notions with which the “primitive consciousness” populated the cosmos with souls and spirits. Those who were modern left Animism behind them and divided the world into body and soul, into… Continue reading Animism – Conference at the „Haus der Kulturen der Welt“