November 07th, 2011 MIT (USA) “How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises through individual and collective art practice? How do we reconcile the arts, activism, and pedagogy? Stella McGregor, Founder and Director of Urbano Project, will share her experience of working with inner city youth and introduce projects such as… Continue reading “Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency”
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“99 Is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary”
October 31st, 2011 Sloan Fellow, MIT (USA) “How do we observe or quantify the impact of an artistic intervention or the impact of a documentary film? Lucy Walker will be reflecting on the experience of making and showing the film Waste Land, a documentary about artist Vik Muniz’s collaboration with the self-designated recyclables materials pickers… Continue reading “99 Is Not 100 – Documenting the Transformative Power of Art, or the Art of Transformative Documentary”
COAL Prize 2012 – Rural
Call for entries – Open to January 15th 2012 The COAL PRIZE Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for… Continue reading COAL Prize 2012 – Rural
Leuphana Sustainability Summit – Call for Papers
Sustainability: Enabling a Transdisciplinary Approach 29th February – 2nd March 2012 – Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany The conference focuses on three leading questions: 1. What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10 years? 2. What gaps in research still remain? 3. How can we fill these… Continue reading Leuphana Sustainability Summit – Call for Papers
Review of the 1st Cultura21 Forum – “The cultivation of ecology/-ies: Gardens and complexity in rural and urban landscapes”
The following review was written by Janna Gehrke (you can find out more about Janna at the bottom of this post): From the 23rd until the 25th of September the first Cultura21 Forum (by the German platform of Cultura21) took place in the “Studio Kunst und Landschaft” in Hude near Oldenburg in Germany. The forum… Continue reading Review of the 1st Cultura21 Forum – “The cultivation of ecology/-ies: Gardens and complexity in rural and urban landscapes”
“Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology”
October 17th, 2011 MIT Media Lab, USA “Moore’s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different “public” to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advances in technology… Continue reading “Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology”
“In The Meantime”
October 3rd, 2011 “The New School” (USA) “In 1992 Jack Persekian founded Anadiel Gallery, the first and only independent gallery for Palestinian artists in Jerusalem. Persekian later founded the Al-Ma’mal Foundation to continue the gallery’s mission and to further promote, instigate, and disseminate the production of art in Palestine. In his talk, Persekian will share… Continue reading “In The Meantime”
International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas
Montreal, Quebec, Canada May 14th-20th, 2012 “This conference will focus on the particular situations and dynamics of the Americas. What does degrowth mean for our Hemisphere with its rich geographical, cultural, social and economic diversity? How can degrowth models apply to different contexts from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego? What does degrowth mean for… Continue reading International Conference on Degrowth in the Americas
Techno-Ecologies
November 3rd – December 11th, 2011, Riga and Liepaja “Techno-Ecologies is the theme of this year’s Art+Communication festival, the 13th edition of which will take place in Riga from November 3 – 6, 2011, featuring conference (November 4–5) and exhibition (November 4 – December 11) as well as broad programme of performances, screenings, public lectures… Continue reading Techno-Ecologies
Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Fall 2011 Lecture Series: Zones of Emergency: Artistic Interventions – Creative Responses to Conflict & Crisis Keynote: Tess Thackara, Director, Survival International (USA) Respondent: Ute Meta Bauer, ACT Director & Associate Professor, MIT (USA) Monday, September 26 at 7:00 PM, Bartos Theater at MIT, Wiesner Building (E15), Lower… Continue reading Popularizing the Fight for Indigenous Rights: How Using Films and Images Can Shift Public Opinion and Change History
