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”

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