Tag Archives: art

Call for Papers – PhD Student Research Award

Deadline extended: Feb. 15th 2013! The Research Network Sociology of the Arts, that is an integrated part of the European Sociological Association (ESA) announces a bi-annual PhD-Student Research Award to recognize outstanding unpublished papers by PhD-Students. The winner of this year´s award will receive 500 € and will present his/her paper at a section during [...]

Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University

British environmental artist Chris Drury´s art installation Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around created back in July 2011 on the Wyoming university campus, was originally intended to inspire a conversation about a prevalent environmental problem in the region. Global warming has, so scientists say, led to less pine beetles dying off by below zero [...]

Exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof

The Simple Life 28 October–16 December, 2012 – Opening: Saturday, 27 October, 5pm; artist talk with Angela Bulloch 6pm Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof – Tiefe Straße 4, D-29643 Neuenkirchen (Germany) With: Angela Bulloch, Josephine Meckseper, Shana Moulton, Simon Starling and winners of the Daniel Frese Prize 2012 Fabian Reimann and Niko Wolf The exhibition The [...]

ART OF RESILIENCE festival in Latvia starting today

Art+Communication festival From October 4 to November 4, 2012 Riga and Liepaja will be the host cities for the 14th International Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication ’2012″. The “Art+Communication” festival is renowned across Europe for its proposed innovative themes. Each year, the festival gathers around hundred participants from Latvia, Europe and other world countries, [...]

Sideways – Moving On

Upon arrival after a four week journey, the Moving On symposium investigates wayfaring as an artistic and spatial practice. 14-15 September 2012 – De Lieteberg, Zuurbroekstraat 16, 3690 Zutendaal, Belgium Sideways is a translocal, experimental festival for contemporary art and cultural research, exploring non-motorized paths and trails folded into the spaces of everyday life. This [...]

Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude

A NIEA Symposium Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30–6:30pm The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of [...]

Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art presents its annual exhibition of work by artists from the mid Hudson Valley. The exhibition will run from June 23 to November 4, 2012 in the museum’s Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery and North Gallery. This year’s exhibition titled Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012 is organized by [...]

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 [...]

ASEF Report now available: “Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues”

In 2010, ASEF commissioned research to investigate good practices connecting the arts to initiatives tackling environmental sustainability issues in a number of Asian countries. Titled Linking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issues,  the research project aimed to carefully document case studies that can not only provide inspiration for networking and collaboration between Asia [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

by Isao Hashimoto A beautiful but undeniably scary timelapse-map of nuclear explosions by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto can be seen in the following video. It shows with sound and numbers the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998. Hashimoto started the project in 2003 in order to show “the fear and [...]

AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver – discussing “Science, Sustainability, and the Arts”

Vancouver, B.C. (Canada) February 16-20, 2012 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an international non-profit organization and the world’s largest general scientific society. Its mission is to “advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people” by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. [...]

Extension of the Call for Papers – Sociology of the Arts – Artistic Practices

Two months ago we published on our website a call for papers for the next conference of the Research Network Sociology of the Arts, at the European Sociological Association, which will take place in Vienna from 5 to 8 September 2012. The focus of the conference will be on artistic practices. The call for papers [...]

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 [...]