by Brian Andrews
On the weekend of November 13 and 14, a cabal of chefs, scientists, artists, and aesthetes gathered to find connections between their disparate fields as their interests overlapped within the tidelands of the San FÂ rancisco Bay. The event was OPENwater, the most recent incarnation of OPENrestaurant, a collaboration of restaurant professionals Stacie Pierce, Jerome Waag, and Sam White, all of Chez Panisse. In collaboration with SFMOMA, the OPENresturant projects endeavor to bring cooking and its associated local environmental concerns into art spaces in order to invite a shift in the language and meanings surrounding their gustatory preparations.
Ian Garrett
Fossil of the Day for Dec 4th – Day 6 – #COP16
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Cancun, Mexico
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Energetics and Informatics: the 7th ADA Symposium, Whanganui, December 10-12 2010
The 7th ADA Network Symposium examines the relationship between energy and information in media arts. We ask how sustainable is the technology that supports media art? What new forms of practice are developing at the intersection of energy conservation and production, technology, and art? And how can we balance a global arts practice with the ethical complexities of global air travel, and the social complexities of remote participation?
These issues will be explored through keynote presentations, discussions, artist presentations, workshops, a screening programme and two exhibitions.
The symposium features keynote presentations by internationally renowned sound and media arts theorist Douglas Kahn, and Australian artists Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, and a remote conversation with London-based media artist Graham Harwood, creator of the Coal Fired Computer.
A wide range of artists and researchers from Whanganui and around New Zealand will present current projects in art and sustainable energy, in conference sessions including Sustainable Media (Art), Energy Networks, and Social Energy.
Friday December 10 is dedicated to a day long workshop with American artist John Hopkins that will explore Whanganui and its river, via Waka. This is a parallel event organised by The Green Bench, with support from Creative Communities.
An outdoor screening programme on the exterior of the  Sargeant Gallery on Saturday December 11, curated by Sophie Jerram, Julian Priest and Ana Terry, includes films by artists such as Superflex, Hans Uber Morgen, Brit Bunkley, Amelia Hitchcock, Erin Coates, Karen Curley and Don Hunter.
In association with ADA, The Sargeant Gallery presents ‘Ozinal’ 2010 (a radio station from the sun) by Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, courtesy of the Artists and Breenspace, opening December 10 at 5:30.
And the Green Bench Gallery will be showing ‘Burn’, an exhibition of work about Oil, curated by Julian Priest,  Sophie Klerk, and Sophie Jerram. This opens  on December 3 at 5:30, and features works by artists including Superflex, Hans Uber Morgen, Felicity Priest, and the Whanganui Rock and Lapidary Club
The ADA Network Trust invites artists, researchers, curators, art enthusiasts, energy researchers, and all those interested in energy, information, and media art from Whanganui and around New Zealand to participate.
Energetics and Informatics takes place December 10-12, at the War Memorial Conference Centre, Watt St, Whanganui
Cost: registration is $30, this includes symposium, workshop, outdoor screening, exhibitions and the ‘ADA free lunch.’
For registration and more information see http://symposium10.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/regsiter
Energetics and Informatics is supported by Creative New Zealand, Whanganui District Council, Hikurangi Foundation,  Green Bench Ltd, UCOL, Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui School of Design, Quay School of the Arts, Art Crew Ltd, Ana Terry Design, Whanganui Green Bikes and The Physics Room.
Douglas Kahn’s keynote is part of a distributed series of talks and discussions occurring throughout New Zealand in December 2010. Parts two and three will occur in Christchurch and Auckland respectively. The distributed masterclass is generously supported by Creative New Zealand, The Physics Room and the Gus Fisher Gallery.
via Symposium Press Page.
Photo Exhibits Issue Call to Protect Mexico’s Natural Beauty | Inhabitat #COP16
Any country that agrees to host a UN climate change conference is bound to be scrutinized for their environmental policies, and at COP16 Mexico has met this scrutiny full force with at least three independent exhibitions and explorations of its natural beauty. Some are federally-funded exercises in propaganda. Some are the fierce work of jungle explorers. All reveal a landscape beyond the manufactured shores of Cancun – read on to take a look!
C&S with Bill McKibben in Cancún #COP16
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Friends of the CSPA, Linh Do and Tim Hall interview Bill McKibben on the 28th of November in Cancún, Mexico before COP16, the UN climate change negotiations.
Bill talks about his work at 350.org and as a writer, before discussing the future of the environment movement, the virtues of young people and his expectations of COP16.
Fossil of the Day for Dec 3rd – Day 5 – #COP16
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The world famous fossil of the day returns for the UNFCCC COP16 Climate Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico.OneClimate will be broadcasting live from the talks – you can take part here – http://www.oneclimate.net/cancun
via YouTube – Fossil of the Day – Day 5 – Cancun, Mexico COP16 Dec 3rd.
Canadian Youth Delegation Market Action #COP16
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The Canadian Youth Delegation auctions off everything from our future, to the forests, air, water, and pollution credits to draw attention to the environmental issues facing Canada at COP 16
Fossil of the Day for Dec 1st – Day 3 – #COP16
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The world famous fossil of the day returns for the UNFCCC COP16 Climate Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico.
OneClimate will be broadcasting live from the talks – you can take part here – http://www.oneclimate.net/cancun
via YouTube – Fossil of the Day – Day 3 – Cancun, Mexico COP16 (Dec 1st).
Fossil of the Day for Nov 30th – Day 2 – #COP16
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The world famous fossil of the day returns for the UNFCCC COP16 Climate Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico.
Japan wins the 1st place Fossil of the Day for reasons outlined below:
“When leadership is needed most, the home country of the Kyoto Protocol made a destructive statement in the AWGK plenary yesterday. It factually rejected the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol by saying Japan will not inscribe its targets under the Kyoto Protocol under any conditions or under any circumstances. Preferring a single treaty approach is one thing, but aggressively denying the future of Kyoto in open plenary is another.”
OneClimate will be broadcasting live from the talks – you can take part here – http://www.oneclimate.net/cancun
via YouTube – Fossil of the Day – Day 2 – Cancun, Mexico COP16 Nov 30th.