Calgary, Alberta, Canada October 10-13, 2012 Building on the success of Under Western Skies: Climate, Culture, and Change in Western North America in October 2010, Under Western Skies 2 welcomes academics from across the disciplines as well as members of artistic and activist communities, non- and for-profit organizations, government, labour, and NGOs to address the… Continue reading Call for Papers: Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America
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U-N-F-O-L-D in New York
New York 30 September – 15 December 2011 The Exhibition U-N-F-O-L-D exhibition continues until 15 December in New York City at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design. It shows the work of twenty-five artists who took part in Cape Farewell expeditions 2007 and 2008 to the High… Continue reading U-N-F-O-L-D in New York
Emergence: The Document!
Emergence: The Document! Creative industries play an important role in the process of developing a sustainable future for the planet, but often there is a lack of ideas and practical solutions on the way to this more sustainable future. The partnership project between Volcano and Cynnal Cymru-Sustain Wales supported by Arts Council Wales and British… Continue reading Emergence: The Document!
Opening in Berlin: Climate Walk
Berlin December 4th 2011 Climate Walk is an experimental project in form of an Audio-visual Interactive Installation on “Climate – Culture – Change”, which challenges ecological thought and action. It opens its doors to visitors on December 4th at the “Akademie der Künste” Berlin. The Walk over the Visitor’s Bridge represents the transition into a… Continue reading Opening in Berlin: Climate Walk
High Arctic Film Weekend
London December 3/4, 2011 On December the 3rd and 4th, the National Maritime Museum in London hosts the High Arctic Film Weekend. In parallel, the High Arctic exhibition is shown at the National Maritime Museum until the 13th of January 2012, too. The weekend of Arctic films complements it by featuring a range of documentaries,… Continue reading High Arctic Film Weekend
Call for Papers: The International Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change
USA September 13-15 2012 The Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change is an event of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder, that takes place from the 13th to the 15th of September 2012. Which obstacles and opportunities are U.S. climate policymakers and scientists confronted with? Current… Continue reading Call for Papers: The International Conference on Culture, Politics, & Climate Change
Book launch – “The Book of Ice”
at EYEBEAM – 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Aves) New York City – Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00-9:00 pm free entry The Book of Ice – in a few days, this part of a graphic design project will be published in New York by its author Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky.… Continue reading Book launch – “The Book of Ice”
UK Green Film Festival
The UK Green Film Festival is a not-for-profit, national film festival showcasing films and filmmakers engaging with environmental and climate change themes that challenge, inspire, educate and entertain. Featured films include: The Age of Stupid, Vanishing of the Bees, Fields of FuelGasLand, With Landscape in Mind, Plastic Planet, Planeat, and The Pipe. Films will be… Continue reading UK Green Film Festival
Exhibition: “Spaghetti Junctions”
Reposted from www.sustainablepractice.org Exhibition until 29 May 2011 in London In 1979 former American President Jimmy Carter inaugurated a solar installation on the roof of the West Wing of the White House. This symbol of his pioneering energy policy was removed seven years later by the Ronald Regan administration. Through video, sculptural-recreation, text and archive material the artists… Continue reading Exhibition: “Spaghetti Junctions”
Unconference: “Re-Rooting Digital Culture”
13th of May at the University of Westminster Over the last decade the awareness of anthropogenic climate change has emerged in parallel with global digital communication networks. By their very nature, the new tools, networks and behaviours of productivity, exchange and cooperation between humans and machines grow and develop at an accelerated rate. The transdisciplinary panel will… Continue reading Unconference: “Re-Rooting Digital Culture”
