Slow Networks – iLAND’s Third Annual Symposium

March 25-26, 2011, hosted by the Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts Slow Networks: Discovering the urban Environment Through Collaborations in Dance and Ecology Slow Networks is an open forum exploring new methods of understanding urban ecosystems through innovative collaborations between practitioners of movement, science, and environmental management. iLAND cultivates a deeper… Continue reading Slow Networks – iLAND’s Third Annual Symposium

Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation

If you are in New York and haven’t already seen it, there’s still some days left to visit a currently running exhibition: Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation, by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, at the Feldman Gallery in New York (NY, USA) until March 26. Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10-6. Monday by appointment. Gallery… Continue reading Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation

Arts and Environment Symposium

March 19-20, 2011, University of Michigan Museum of Art A two-day colloquium to facilitate dialogue about the role of art in environmental education and stewardship. Participants will look at bridges that have been built across the divide of the arts and environment and will imagine others that might be created. More information: click here ;… Continue reading Arts and Environment Symposium

iLAB Residencies Call for Proposals

iLAND is now accepting applications for the 2011 round of iLAB Residencies. The deadline to apply is March 18, 2011. iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within the different fields/disciplines through an engagement with the ecology of New… Continue reading iLAB Residencies Call for Proposals

Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism – Performing Ecology

By Aviva Rahmani Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism is a systematic way to initiate “environmental triage.” The theory includes strategies to restore degraded environments characterized by 8 premises and 12 procedural actions that draw equally from science and art. In workshop form, it is a methodology that integrates charettes, metaphorical allusions, role-playing embodiment techniques,… Continue reading Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism – Performing Ecology

Art Talks @ The Reading Room

Reposted from the website of Khoj International Artists’ Association (India) In Context:public.art.ecology Art Talks @ The Reading Room D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 – Friday, 18th March 2011, 5:00 pm- 6:30 pm A discussion  on the intersection of  Art,Ecology and Science by Biologist & Physicist Dr. Mukund Thattai and  Philosopher & Physicist Dr. Sundar… Continue reading Art Talks @ The Reading Room

H20: The Art of Conservation

This post comes to you from Green Public Art / Reposted from the CSPA website H20: The Art of Conservation May 6 – November 12, 2011 at The Water Conservation Garden 12122 Cuyamaca College Drive West, El Cajon, CA 92019 This unique exhibition, curated by Green Public Art, offers San Diego homeowners an artistic alternative… Continue reading H20: The Art of Conservation

Networking the arts to save the Earth

Cathy Fitzgerald, film-maker and author of ecoartnotebook.com, has completed a research paper on the “sometimes under-utilised potential of online art and ecology networks“: Online social networks are a recent global phenomenon of the last five years. This paper considers the value and under-realised potential of online social networks that connect cultural practitioners and organisations who… Continue reading Networking the arts to save the Earth

The Art of Ecology – Transdisciplinary Research In Practice

A symposium at the 2011 World Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) SER2011 WORLD CONFERENCE ON ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION – Merida, Mexico – August 21-25, 2011 – Re-establishing the Link between Nature and Culture Please submit abstracts (see link below) indicating the title of the symposium and the name of David Haley, as session… Continue reading The Art of Ecology – Transdisciplinary Research In Practice