Monthly Archives: April 2010

158 Lifeguard Towers to Begin their Transformation into Public Art – LAist

April 30, 2010newsApril, California Coast, Crocus, Five Colors, Floral Art, Floral Pieces, Lifeguard, Public Art Project, Railings, Regions, Shape, Sweat Pea, Toronto Blue, Transformation Art, Volunteer, Volunteers

Starting Sunday April 25th and lasting through October, the regions biggest public art project will begin to take shape. By Mid-May “Summer of Color” will have turned 158 lifeguard towers on 31 miles of California coast into vibrant floral pieces of public art. On Sunday, volunteers will paint tower railings with one of five colors: yellow, rumba orange, sweat pea, Toronto blue, and crocus petal purple. If you want to volunteer, sign up here.

via 158 Lifeguard Towers to Begin their Transformation into Public Art This Weekend – LAist.

CLUI on Display: Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern Californiaâ€™s Great Pass

April 29, 2010newsCentral Valley, Clui, Department Of Cultural Affairs, Energy Move, Epic, Grapevine, Megalopolis, Mountainous Terrain, Northern Edge, Population California, Roadways, San Gabriel, Southern California, Streams, Tehachapi Mountain, Traffic

Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern Californiaâ€™s Great PassThe mountainous passage that separates the great population of Southern California from the rest of the state is a zone of transit, from one epic region to another. Located at the collision of the San Gabriel and Tehachapi Mountain Ranges, this steep and convoluted terrain lies between Castaic, the northern edge of the Los Angeles megalopolis, and the depopulated place known as Grapevine, at the southern end of the Central Valley. Layers of traffic, water, and energy move like a braided stream through the mountainous terrain, connecting here to there.From April 23, 2010This exhibit is made possible by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles and the CLUI Remarkable Roadways Program.

CLUI on Display: Through the Grapevine: Streams of Transit in Southern Californiaâ€™s Great Pass.

The Crane Also Rises: CalArts Connection to Coachellaâ€™s Ascension

April 28, 2010newsAmbient Lighting, Art Installation, Calarts, Coachella, Crane Project, CSPA, Desert Sun, Dramatic Visuals, Giant White, Japanese Legend, Living Art, Rest Area, S Rays, Solar Energy Collectors, Solar Panels, Stagecoach, Sustainable Manner, Symbol Of Peace, Tension Wire, Wall Street Journal, White Fabric, Wingspan, Ziemba

Picking up a story about Executive Director Ian Garrett’s Practice outside of the CSPA from the CalArts Blog’s Christine Ziemba….

Anyone who attended theÂ Coachella orÂ Stagecoach festivals in recent weeks in Indio, Calif., couldnâ€™t miss the giant origami crane towering over the festival grounds. The art installation,Â Ascension, was crafted by the Crimson Collective, an LA-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. Based onÂ Japanese legend,Â Ascension stood as a symbol of peace and prosperity.

TheÂ Collectiveâ€™s Nick Vida tapped artist and CalArts alumnusÂ Ian Garrett(Theater MFA 08) to design the lighting for the project in an environmentally sustainable manner. In other words, the lights were programmed and run by solar power: â€œWe had to collect enough light to charge the batteries and power the lights at night,â€ said Garrett. He used multicolored LED lights to change the craneâ€™s colors continually each evening, providing concertgoers dramatic visuals to go along with the music from the festivalsâ€™ stages.

Standing at more than 45 feet and with a wingspan of more than 150 feet, the fabric and truss installation gave concertgoers shelter from the desert sun by day, too. Hereâ€™s a description fromÂ The Wall Street Journalâ€™s Speakeasy blog:

Defined by the collective as a living art installation, the giant white crane was crafted from white fabric, modular aluminum and tension wire, all of which combine and provide vast expanses of shade. While simultaneously blocking the sun, two solar energy collectors will charge via the sunâ€™s rays to provide colored ambient lighting once the sun goes down. Underneath each of the solar panels is a bench and rest area, offering extra space for respite.

Since the crane is a fully sustainable and reusable project, the Crimson Collective is planning to take the crane around the world. For those interested in learning more about the crane project, the Collectiveâ€™sÂ Nick Vida and Brent Heyning will be on campus next week (May 7 at noon) to discuss the crane project and installation as part ofÂ CalArts Sustainability Speaker Series.

Garrett was at Stagecoach this weekend to help take downÂ Ascension. He provided us a few early renderings of the crane, as well as photos from the festival grounds in the photo gallery posted above.

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Braziers International Artists Workshop

April 27, 2010news21st Century, 22nd August, Art Music, Braziers, Challenges, Collective Action, Fusion, International Artists, Music Film, Public Realm, Public Sphere, Receipt

In a departure from its usual structure, BIAW 2010 will focus on organising a 2 day extravaganza open to the public on 21st and 22nd August 2010.

We presentÂ Supernormal – a one-off, non-commercial festival investigating the power of arts practice to reshape and reinvigorate the public sphere through
collective action.

16 artists will be selected to work with the co-ordinators over 14 days to create a brilliant fusion of art, music, film, conversation and fun, playing host to a hand-picked line-up of exciting artists and performers.

We are calling for artists who, conscious of the social, economic, environmental and cultural challenges we face in the 21st century, are open to working together in a sustainable and inclusive way to explore arts practice in the context of the public realm.

Deadline for receipt of applications: Monday 3rd May 2010

Braziers International Artists Workshop.

WOOLOO.ORG – NEW LIFE CANCÃšN

April 26, 2010newsActivism, Activists, Climate Change Summit, Climate Disasters, Co2 Emissions, Continuation, Copenhagen, Fundraising Efforts, Hurricanes, Image Credit, Interventions, Low Budget, New Ways, Ngo, Platform Artists, Production Budget, Research Questions, Social Architecture, Tourism Sector, Wooloo

Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN.

This experimental hospitality initiative intends to promote and facilitate participation during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in CancÃºn, Mexico at the end of 2010 (Nov. 29th â€“ Dec. 10th).

In continuation of Wooloo’sÂ NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival – in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists during the Copenhagen summit – NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of CancÃºn.An area infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.

Utilizing this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: â€œNEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHERâ€.

The deadline for work proposals is JULY 1st, 2010.

Please direct all research questions toÂ contact@wooloo.org

Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large – so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!

NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collectiveÂ Carbonding

Image credit:Â Stephanie Claverie

via WOOLOO.ORG – NEW LIFE CANCÃšN.

Call for Proposals: Temporary Public Art in NW Pasadena, $1,000 honoraria

April 25, 2010newsApplication Requirements, Architect, Architects, Armory Center, Art Installation, Californian Artists, Call For Proposals, Email, Honorarium, Land Art, Northwest Pasadena, Pdf, Public Art, Southern Californian, Vacant Lot

The Armory Center for the Arts is seeking proposals from Southern CalifornianÂ artists and architects for a temporary site-specific Land/Environmental artÂ installation or structure in a vacant lot in Northwest Pasadena.

Proposals are due via email by May 15th. Winner will be notified by May 31st.Â Winning project will be installed in June and run from July – December, 2010.

A $1,000 honorarium will be provided to the selected artist/architect to coverÂ expenses related to the creation of the work.

Download complete details and application requirements at:

Click to access transplanter_public_art_cfp.pdf

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A High Desert Test Sites Lecture & Workshop Series

April 24, 2010EcoLOGIC LAArt And Craft, Contemporary Art, Cultural Variation, Desert Test, Earth Science, Ecology, Email, Endeavor, Everyday Life, High Desert, Inspirations, Joshua Tree, Mojave Desert, Participant, Survival Skills, Sustainable Living, Test Sites, Workshop Series

Saturday May 1st-Sunday May 2nd 2010

2-Day Workshop in Joshua Tree, 12 students, $120 fee

The New Everyday Live is an endeavor designed to both stimulate conversation and catalyze action by considering overlap between contemporary art and craft, sustainable living, survival skills, ecology and earth science, and cultural variation. Each participant in The New Everyday Life will leave with a new set of skills and inspirations, after intimately experiencing the Mojave desertâ€™s unique context for life and living.

Only a few spots left as of 4/21. Email info.hdts@gmail.com

For more information go to: http://www.highdeserttestsites.com

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Matthias Merkel Hess of Eco Art Blog has a New Project, looking for your help!

April 23, 2010newsArt Work, blog, Eco, Email, Fine Art, Grad School, Hess, Institutions, Job, Lot, Matthias, Merkel, Participation, Santa Monica California, Thesis

I haven’t been posting on the Eco Art Blog recently; as I’ve said before, others are doing a better job at that than I have the time for. Also, the end of grad school has piled on a lot of time-consuming activities, like mounting a thesis show.

But I am happy to announce a new project I’m working on at the 18th Streets Arts Center in Santa Monica, California. It’s called Fine Art 626-394-3963, and I’m inviting you to call or email me to talk about art and what you want from artists and the institutions that show art work.

The project really needs your participation, so I hope you’ll call or email. For more, visit the project blog at fineart6263943963.blogspot.com.

Go to Eco Art Blog

PEN American Center – Weather Report: What Can We Do?

April 22, 2010newsAdjunct Professor, Andrew Revkin, Bellona Foundation, Bill Mckibben, BjÃ¸Rn Lomborg, Books Editor, Chico Mendes, Climatologists, Copenhagen Business School, Critical Infrastructure, Environmental Organization, Hauge, James Hansen, Jostein Gaarder, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Pen American Center, Pen Members, Robert Silvers, Skeptical Environmentalist, Weather Report

When: Thursday, April 29

Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 83rd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York City

What time: 8â€“9:30 p.m.

WithÂ Jostein Gaarder,Â James Hansen,Â Frederic Hauge,Â BjÃ¸rn Lomborg,Â Bill McKibben,Â Andrew Revkin, andÂ Cynthia Rosenzweig; moderated byÂ Robert Silvers

Tickets: $25/$20 PEN Members/The Metropolitan Museum of Art Members andÂ New York Review of Books subscribers;Â www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444. For Member discount code, please contact Lara Tobin atÂ lara@pen.org or (212) 334-1660 ext. 126.

â€œWhat Can We Do?â€ brings together on one panel some of the premier scientists and writers from the U.S. and Scandinavia: Frederic Hauge, founder and director of the international environmental organization the Bellona Foundation; BjÃ¸rn Lomborg, an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School and author of the controversial The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World and Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalistâ€™s Guide to Global Warming; Jostein Gaarder, author of the internationally-acclaimed novel Sophieâ€™s World and creator of the Sophie Prize; Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, and numerous other books; James Hansen, one of the worldâ€™s leading climatologists and author of Storms of My Grandchildren; and author and environment journalist Andrew Revkin, whose biography of Chico Mendes, formed the basis of the feature ï¬lm The Burning Season. Cynthia Rosenzweig is co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts convened by the mayor advising the city on adaptation for its critical infrastructure. The New York Review of Books editor, Robert Silvers will guide the discussion about how we can turn back the tides of global warming.

For more information: PEN American Center – Weather Report: What Can We Do?.

The 2nd WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTS EDUCATION

April 21, 2010news21st Century, Actors, Art Education, Creativity, Education Conference, Education Research, Education World, Encounter, Implementation, Initiatives, Invitation, Korean Government, Lisbon Portugal, Methodological Tools, Quality Arts Education, Quality Education, Road Map, Seoul, Target, World Education

It is the 34th session of UNESCOs General Conference in October 2007 that decided the Second World Conference should take place as soon as possible and accepted the invitation of the Korean Government to host this event.

Following the ongoing preparation through numerous initiatives across the world, this conference in Seoul aims to promote and to reinforce the value of quality arts education for all, in developing a capacity for creativity in the 21st century for youth and all generation.

The significance and value of arts education has already been underlined and expressed in the “Road Map for Arts Education”, resulting from the First World Conference on Arts Education held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2006. It is now the time to focus on encouraging the implementation of the “Road Map”. Furthermore, this new global encounter in Seoul of art education actors will target to highlight the socio-cultural dimensions of arts education and reinforce research and knowledge of practices, ensuing from new conceptual and methodological tools.

The 2nd WORLD CONFERENCE ON ARTS EDUCATION.