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”
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“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”
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
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”
Living as Form – Public Talks in New York City
The public talks aim at furthering the discussions surrounding socially engaged practices. They are free and open to the public. All talks will be held from 6:30–8:00pm in the Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square, New York City. The first talk “Considering Useful Art” will take place on May 18th 2011 with Claire Bishop, who is an Associate Professor… Continue reading Living as Form – Public Talks in New York City
Summer Residency Program: “Reconfiguring Site”
July 11 until August 19 in New York City by the School of Visual Arts The six-week summer program “Reconfiguring Sites: New Approaches to Public Art and Architecture” highlights different areas that are currently manifest in public art: such as social intervention, new media technologies, interdisciplinary collaborations with architecture, ecological and environmental interventions, and performance. Prominent… Continue reading Summer Residency Program: “Reconfiguring Site”
Eros and Cosmocracy: Birthing a Holistic Ecology
An event in New York City, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Columbia University, Morningside Campus, Heyman Center for the Humanities, East Campus, 2nd Floor Common Room “Environmentalist discourse about the fate of the planet too often proceeds binaristically: science or metaphysics; anthropocentric or anti-human; progress or apocalypse. This symposium seeks… Continue reading Eros and Cosmocracy: Birthing a Holistic Ecology
Call for Proposals of Wishful Thinking
Write a proposal to a US government agency – Deadline: 1st of May. As self-declared Artists in Residence for the US Government, the Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT) believes that the community of artists and designers possesses untapped creative and conceptual resources that could be applied to solving social problems. With this in mind they invite… Continue reading Call for Proposals of Wishful Thinking
“Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Exhibition until July 3rd; Symposium on May 6th and 7th The images of the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Oil explore the hotly-debated effects of oil extraction and our international dependency on the substance. The symposium in May brings together top scientific and arts industry experts for two days of discussion about essential issues of oil, planetary sustainability, and the energy options available… Continue reading “Edward Burtynsky: Oil” at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
