OPEN CALL: Koli Environmental Art Festival

International Environmental Art Exhibition, Slash and Burn Gallery “Dear Artist, We invite You to take part in an open call for the KOLI Environmental Art Festival’s summer 2015. All artists can send their application. Application period 01.12.2014-31.01.2015. KOLI Environmental Art Festival is an international environmental art project in North Karelia, Finland, and the project is… Continue reading OPEN CALL: Koli Environmental Art Festival

Cultura21 eBook Vol. 12: A Journey Through Alternative Ways of Living:

a design approach for scaling up grassroots movements towards sustainability 12th volume in the Cultura21 eBooks series on culture and sustainability – by Nicholas Torretta Given the growing world-wide urbanization and the need for achieving a sustainable way of living, there is an urgent need for developing possibilities sustainable ways of urban living. This study… Continue reading Cultura21 eBook Vol. 12: A Journey Through Alternative Ways of Living:

Making_Life

– a research platform for art and synthetic biology “I wonder how much of this Making Life project (what’s in a name) will consist of critical reflection on “the making of novel life-forms from ‘scratch’”, and how much – through its association with art – will in fact be providing social and moral legitimacy (and… Continue reading Making_Life

Call for participants: “Field_Notes – Deep Time”, 15th – 24th September 2013, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland

“Field_Notes – Deep Time” is a week long art&science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, will develop, test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation… Continue reading Call for participants: “Field_Notes – Deep Time”, 15th – 24th September 2013, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Lapland/Finland

Proposals for creative art+science, participatory and open environmental education in the Gulf of Finland / Baltic Sea Region

On the Pixelache website, Andrew Paterson introduced 6 proposals, first presented at the Gulf of Finland Year Trilateral Environmental Education seminar, Tallinn, 28.2.2013 (http://www.gof2014.fi/en/partners/education/) and part of an ongoing dialogue and cooperation with Russian NGO Friends of the Baltic, based in St. Petersburg (http://baltfriends.ru/). Find out more here…

Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence

Transdisciplinary expedition, production workshop and events Location: Pyhäjoki, Finland – Time: 31.7. – 12.8.2013 – For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything or opinion in between. Deadline to apply: 5.5.2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of Finland is planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki. The aim of the project… Continue reading Call for participants: Case Pyhäjoki – Artistic reflections on nuclear influence

Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop

28th January – 1st February, 2013 Deadline for applications – Monday 26th November 2012 BiofiliA, Base for Biological Arts, Aalto University, Finland, in collaboration with SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia is organizing an intensive five day workshop for artists and other interested people. After the workshop the opening of the new laboratory and biological… Continue reading Call for Participants: SymbioticA Biotech for Artists Workshop

Call for Program Planner – Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival

The Pixelache Helsinki Festival 2013, a festival of electronic art and subcultures, organized in Helsinki since 2002 is looking for organizations, groups or individuals who would like to organize a seminar and an exhibition for the Facing North – Facing South program of Pixelache in Helsinki in 2013, with the hope that the program will… Continue reading Call for Program Planner – Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival

eBook: Promoting natural materials

This free eBook, edited by Päivi Simi and Outi Toumela, is the main publication of the long term project of the same title, taking place in Southern Finland and Estonia from 2009 to 2012. The focus of the project lies in raising awareness and spreading knowledge on the use of healthier materials as well as… Continue reading eBook: Promoting natural materials

4th Sustainable Summer School – Finland

The 4th Sustainable Summer School« for students from all around the world starts on August 25th and ends September 3rd, 2012 in Helsinki. This year the Sustainable Summer School is hosted by the Aalto University and takes place in Helsinki on Suomenlinna island. In the Sustainable Summer School the students will work together on different… Continue reading 4th Sustainable Summer School – Finland