Since their first American Society for The Theatre Research (ASTR) Working Group session at the 2010 conference in Seattle, the Performance and Ecology Working Group has spawned symposia, anthologies, and publications. Foremost among those is a new volume that grew out of the 2010 session: Readings in Performance and Ecology, eds., Wendy Arons and Theresa… Continue reading ASTR Working Session Calls for Papers “Trans-cultural, trans-national, trans-species histories in performance”
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Opportunity to make work at Teaneck Creek
The Ecoart Committee of the Teaneck Creek Conservancy in Teaneck, NJ seeks proposals from ecoartists or ecoartist teams to create an ecoartwork in 2012-13. The Teaneck Creek Conservancy is a 46-acre eco-park within Bergen County’s 1,200-acre Overpeck Park, this property is being reclaimed and rehabilitated as wetland habitat and for positive public use through a… Continue reading Opportunity to make work at Teaneck Creek
Science Inspires Art 2012: VITAL SIGNS
Open Call for Artists: What vital signs of life pull at your inquisitive mind and imagination? The Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) announces an Open Call for their annual, international, art-sci competition. The exhibition will be held at the New York Hall of Science, September 1, 2012 – February 3, 2013. For this year’s… Continue reading Science Inspires Art 2012: VITAL SIGNS
Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
Brandon Ballengée – Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms May 5 – July 31 (extended) 2012 Visual artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée will exhibit sculptural installations and photographs at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in his first major solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition, entitled “Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms”, consists of three bodies… Continue reading Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms
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
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)
Conference ‘Nature and the Popular Imagination’ in Malibu CA
Call for Papers The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture http://www.religionandnature.com/society/ (ISSRNC) announced its next conference in Malibu, California at Pepperdine University on August 8-11, 2012. The conference theme will be “Nature and the Popular Imagination.”
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
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be, curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo, is on display in the Michael and Noémi Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, TX (USA) until April 7, 2012. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists exploring human incursion on the landscape. Through a variety of media, these… Continue reading The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
“Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
Solo exhibition by Joel Tauber – from March 6 to April 28 Joel Tauber is Assistant Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. His installation is “looking at a period that seems remarkably similar to our own – the end of the 19th century in America”. The artist says about his project: During my research… Continue reading “Pumping” at Adamski Gallery in Berlin
