Dirt? – Call for Entries

Scientists, Book Artists, and Poets Reflect on Soil and Our Environment Exhibition dates:    August 6, 2015 to December 30, 2015 Exhibition venue:  Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, USA 98416 Entry Deadline: April 29, 2015 THEME – 2015 is the United Nations International Year of the Soil.  Poets and book artists can… Continue reading Dirt? – Call for Entries

Art and Biodiversity: Sustainable Art?

[Plastik Art & Science] # 4 Ed. Agnès Foiret, online since February 15 2014 : http://art-science.univ-paris1.fr/ The 4th issue of the partly bilingual (French-English) Art & Science Journal [Plastik], published by University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, is out. The five articles available in English are marked in red color below:  Table of Contents : – Art, culture et… Continue reading Art and Biodiversity: Sustainable Art?

Conference “Narratives and Building Environmental Responsibility ”

Monday 4 June 2012 – UNESCO House (Paris) The conference is organized in the framework of UNESCO’s activities aimed at fostering debate on the ethics of global environmental change and of science and technology, and at promoting philosophical thinking to elaborate modern paradigms of sustainable human development. One of the founders of environmental ethics and… Continue reading Conference “Narratives and Building Environmental Responsibility ”

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.… Continue reading AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver – discussing “Science, Sustainability, and the Arts”

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… Continue reading Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer

SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (USA)

New York (USA) February 25th, 2012 An All-Day Wonder Cabinet On Saturday, February 25th, 2012 from 10:45 am till 9:30 pm, the New York Institute of the Humanities and The New Jersey Institute of Technology present SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL at the NYU’s Cantor Film Center in New York. David Rothenberg talks with scientists and… Continue reading SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (USA)

Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (UK)

with David Rothenberg and Jay Griffiths Watershed, Bristol (UK) 16 February 2012, 19.30-20.30 On the 16th of February 2012 David Rothenberg talks with scientists and artists about his new book Survival of the Beautiful, which examines the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. In it the philosopher and musician Rothenberg deals with the… Continue reading Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (UK)

Plasticities Sciences Arts

“Plasticities Sciences Arts” is an association based in France, operating at the transdisciplinary crossroads of art and science. As expressed by its president, Marc-Williams Debono, “the PSA research group aims at opening new fields of interaction between sciences, arts and humanities. The group has its origins in 1994 when it established a Transdisciplinary network of… Continue reading Plasticities Sciences Arts

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