RESIDENCY AT THE BAMBOO CURTAIN STUDIO, TAIPEI, TAIWAN The Bamboo Curtain Studio has been actively supporting creative talents for the past 15 years. Within our four reused spaces, we have been celebrating the arts and empowering the lives of over 200 local and 30 international artists, with much sharing across communities, collaborating regional and exchanging… Continue reading 2011 OPEN CALL FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
CALL FOR PAPERS (EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS)
The Ministry of Culture of Spain, in collaboration with the Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is currently preparing a European Congress of Aesthetics that will take place at the Prado Museum (Madrid) between the 10th and the 12th of November 2010. The title of the congress will be:… Continue reading CALL FOR PAPERS (EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS)
Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico
Please join Aviva Rahmani for the launch of two new films, Desecration and Resurrection. The premiere is part of the eartotheearth festival www.emfproductions.org As the British Petroleum oil spill unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico, a restored intertidal salt marsh in the Gulf of Maine was coming back to life. Performing Ecology, a Vision for the… Continue reading Performing Ecology, a Vision for the Gulf of Mexico
A symposium in Western Australia on Unruly ecologies: Biodiversity and art
SymbioticA. Symposium November 26th to 28th, 2010 A symposium exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and activism. The ecology of biodiversity is based upon an uncertain definition, incomplete statistics and the need to act in a world without balance. While multiple flora and fauna databases… Continue reading A symposium in Western Australia on Unruly ecologies: Biodiversity and art
Metropolis Books Announces a Revolutionary Design Book
GREEN PATRIOT POSTERS Images for a New Activism Edited by Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel. Text by Michael Bierut, Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Heller Edward Morris, Dmitri Siegel (Metropolis Books) In association with ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND and THE CANARY PROJECT Featuring 50 of the best contemporary posters on the theme of sustainability by artists and designers… Continue reading Metropolis Books Announces a Revolutionary Design Book
Future Places. Porto, Portugal, October 2010
Digital Media and Local Cultures FUTUREPLACES 2010 is a meeting of people with one question in mind: if digital media can do so much for global communication, knowledge and creativity, how can it contribute to local cultural development?
Sustainable creative cities report is online
Please find below a weblink and direct link to a PDF file, released by the ASEF (Asia Europe Foundation) about the publication, today, of the short report from a workshop on “sustainable creative cities” organized as part of the ASEF Conference alongside the 8th Asia-Europe Summit of Heads of States in early October. We are… Continue reading Sustainable creative cities report is online
eBooklet on Walking for download in PDF format
Walking in life, art and science : a few examples (Sacha Kagan, Ed., 2010): eBooklet in PDF format to download HERE The booklet contains: * an introductory article about the history and art history of walking in Europe * an article introducing German “Promenadologie” * an article about one postcolonial work of HMJokinen in Hamburg… Continue reading eBooklet on Walking for download in PDF format
Mindthestorm – Like random steps of sunlight, Random steps of consciousness
Themes on and about the complex mesh of relations between biospheres, climatic science, environmental politics, globalization, culture and art form the point of departure for mindthestorm.org’s continuously accumulating archive of image and textual documentation. Processuality constitutes the focal point of mindthestorm.org. The archive is neither hierarchically structured, nor does it follow a defined order. The… Continue reading Mindthestorm – Like random steps of sunlight, Random steps of consciousness
Staging Sustainability – Arts, Community, Culture, Environment
How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours ? The Faculty of Fine Arts at York University (Toronto – Canada) invites proposals for papers for Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment, a conference… Continue reading Staging Sustainability – Arts, Community, Culture, Environment
