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Conexiones improbables: Call for Applications

Call for artists and social scientists to develop joint research projects with 9 organisations located in Spain Deadline to apply: 9am on 28 March 2011. Collaboration period: May 2011 – January 2012 (part time). Payment: 12,000 euros (including travel and accommodation). Improbable Connections is a community of collaborative and co-creative research initiatives aimed at innovation… Continue reading Conexiones improbables: Call for Applications

Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and to stimulate further debates in civil society and further action-research in the field. The city today is increasingly conceptualized… Continue reading Vol. 3 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

ecoartscotland: Scotland’s new resource on culture and the environment

ecoartscotland is a new project focused on the connections between culture and environment. It is a platform for practice and research focused on the cultural challenges of environmental crisis.

Call for papers: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

2nd Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2011 http://artshumanities.netsci2011.net/ DEADLINE FEB 7 2011 The aim of the symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities. The symposium will highlight arts and humanities as an interesting source of data, where the combined experience of arts, humanities research, and… Continue reading Call for papers: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

Vol. 2 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and to stimulate further debates in civil society and further action-research in the field. Karamoja, a semi-arid region located north-east… Continue reading Vol. 2 in the Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability

Symposium on Music – Conflict – Transformation

9th and 10th May 2011, SocArts, University of Exeter, UK Call for contributions In the past decade there has been a growing interest in music and social conflict both inside and outside academia. Interdisciplinary research from music sociologists, ethnomusicologists, music psychologists and musicologists has focused on music’s dual use, both as a resource for conflict… Continue reading Symposium on Music – Conflict – Transformation

Violentine’s Day (what is the price of Love?)

Exhibition, public interventions, graffiti, interactive performances, documentary film screening, and public discussions Visit the project’s website: click here Objective The goal of “Violentine’s Day” is to raise awareness about how our everyday lifestyles are tied into the global economy. Using the means of art to investigate the reality behind Valentine’s Day, this project will make… Continue reading Violentine’s Day (what is the price of Love?)

Call for artists on Art and Climate Change

Bunker, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Bunker forms part of the network entitled Imagine 2020 – Arts and Climate Change, which tackles the issue of environmental challenges through the prism of artistic actions and by means of certain other instruments of production.

COAL Prize 2011

COAL PRIZE ART&ENVIRONMENT 2011: APPLY NOW! Description The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL, the coalition for art and sustainable development, to reward a project about the environment by a contemporary artist.