Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution

In an effort to reduce the undocumented and unlimited rising of oceanic noise pollution, the US government is completing the first phase of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which seeks to document human-made noises in the ocean and transform the results into the world’s first oceanic sound maps. The first results… Continue reading Project seeks to map and reduce ocean noise pollution

Eco-Aesthetics: Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology

Saturday, 2 March, 2013, 2-7pm Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL The first issue of Third text, a bimonthly appearing journal on art in the global context, in 2013 is a special issue focusing on Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology and is accompanied by the conference on the same topic in London. The event… Continue reading Eco-Aesthetics: Contemporary Arts and the Politics of Ecology

Call for Papers – Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future

Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics, in cooperation with the ESF (European Science Foundation) network A Right to a Green Future is calling for papers for their Annual Conference, this year held in Soesterberg, Netherlands on August 22-25, 2013. It will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference.

Call for papers on The Politics of African Contemporary Art – Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

Recent approaches to African contemporary art often celebrate the advent of a global contemporary art scene in which they see an abolition of the provincialist and historicist concepts that were imposed by the West during the colonial period. One assumes that by taking part in new and post-historical/ post-national networks of exchange, facilitated by large-scale… Continue reading Call for papers on The Politics of African Contemporary Art – Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics

ZNE! in Sao Paulo

Opening: February 12, 2013 – 7 pm February 22 – April 7, 2013, Memorial da América Latina, Sao Paulo After stops in Mumbai, Addis Ababa and Beijing, the exhibition zur nachahmung empfohlen! – expeditionen in ästhetik und nachhaltigkeit (examples to follow! – expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability) is coming to Sao Paulo, Brazil which marks its… Continue reading ZNE! in Sao Paulo

Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

From February 14 – 23, The Kitchen and iLAND, Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, present the New York premiere of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive, a visceral exploration of the dancing body as physical archive of experience and place. The piece, which marks Monson’s return to The Kitchen after 15… Continue reading Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

Call for Submissions: Ars Eletronica – Next Idea Grant

Deadline:  March 8, 2013 As a part of the annual Prix Ars Electronica, an international competition for cyberart, sometimes referred to as the Oscar of computer art, voestalpine and Ars Electronica are awarding the Next Idea Grant to honor new and extraordinarily promising ideas and to support the process of developing them further. People from… Continue reading Call for Submissions: Ars Eletronica – Next Idea Grant

Economics of Happiness Conference 2013

March 15-17, 2013 – Byron Bay, Australia The not-for-profit organization ISEC (International Society for Ecology and Culture) is, after the success of the first conference held last March in Berkeley, California, hosting the second international Economics of Happiness Conference in Australia. The conference is an annual event of the global grassroots movement whose mission is… Continue reading Economics of Happiness Conference 2013

Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE

Riga’s Center for New Media Culture RIXC is welcoming submissions – articles, conceptual and artistic texts, research papers and visual contributions – from artists, theorists, scientists, researchers who are engaged with issues of social and ecological sustainability, and who are interested in a deeper understanding of technology, for the next Acoustic Space (Volume No. 12),… Continue reading Call for Papers – Acoustic Space No. 12: ART OF RESILIENCE

Mark Dion at Museum Het Domein

The Macabre Treasury January 20–May 5, 2013 – Museum Het Domein – Sittard, Netherlands “Increasingly, my work has become macabre and laced with dusky pessimism. Early on I believed that ecological calamity could be averted by awareness. If people knew about issues like the loss of biodiversity or global warming, they would act so as… Continue reading Mark Dion at Museum Het Domein