Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), April 30 – May 1, 2012 This event will address the question “How can we tangibly change the way we run our theaters to ensure we survive and have a significant positive impact on our environment and community?” Presenting organizations include: Broadway Green Alliance (New York): helped convert 97% of Broadway’s marquees… Continue reading Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose
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2012 iLAND Symposium
New-York, USA, March 23-24, 2012 Wollman Hall at The New School | 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor Tickets: $5 – $25 (Sliding Scale) The 2012 iLAND Symposium will be entitled: Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice. This event is an open forum for exploring new methods of… Continue reading 2012 iLAND Symposium
5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
District of Columbia (USA) March 5 to April 27, 2012 The temporary public art project 5×5 of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities was established in order to result in twenty-five public art installations in different locations in the District of Columbia this spring. Five highly-experienced and innovative contemporary art curators were selected… Continue reading 5×5 Project of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Visions for Water – Ecological Artists Modeling Solutions for our Challenged Water Systems
New York February 11, 2012 On Saturday, February 11, 2012, ecoartspace presents the panel discussion Visions for Water at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NYC (USA). In the discussion ecological artists like Lillian Ball, Jackie Brookner, Betsy Damon and Aviva Rahmani try to model solutions for the challenged water systems. The panel… Continue reading Visions for Water – Ecological Artists Modeling Solutions for our Challenged Water Systems
Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer
New York, The Noguchi Museum Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3 pm In times of climate change and global warming individuals as well as communities are confronted with fragmented, confusing and often overwhelming news and data about these themes. In order to make sense of these facts the largely disconnected linking between art, research and the… Continue reading Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer
SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (USA)
New York (USA) February 25th, 2012 An All-Day Wonder Cabinet On Saturday, February 25th, 2012 from 10:45 am till 9:30 pm, the New York Institute of the Humanities and The New Jersey Institute of Technology present SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL at the NYU’s Cantor Film Center in New York. David Rothenberg talks with scientists and… Continue reading SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (USA)
Exhibition: Ruth Wallen – Cascading Memorials
La Jolla, California January 7 – February 11, 2012 Until February the 11th, the exhibition Cascading Memorials: Urbanization and Climate Change in San Diego County can be seen at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California.
Designing for the Divide: A Conference on Community Action Across Lines of Difference
West Virginia University March the 23rd & 24th, 2012 In almost every issue concerning for example governance, the environment, economic development or healthcare, the lacking ability to communicate, cooperate and compromise obstructs the successful and effective addressing of challenges. This conference aims to present ideas that help build a bridge in order to reduce social… Continue reading Designing for the Divide: A Conference on Community Action Across Lines of Difference
Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
New York The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes. In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design… Continue reading Land Art Generator Initiative design competition
Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century Is Treading Water The “Land“ artists in the 1970s as well as artists like Joseph Beuys and Agnes Denes in the 1980s paved the way for the ecological artists today and for art to act as an agent for social change. Today environmental art includes various approaches and… Continue reading Artists & Environmental Change: The Elusive Power of Contemporary Art
