Energy Waste – The CSPA

ARTSPACE FORUM:Â SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2014Â 10AM â€“ 2 PM in Chicago
TITLE: Â Designing a Better Future: A Participatory Platform for Exchange
Session Producers: Jacki Apple & Mat Rappaport

Artists and designers operating as thinkers and communicators, visualizers and producers can be leaders in changing how we think, live, and act, in order to make a better world.

Are we ready to discuss cultural production and the arts as viable and meaningful practices beyond the established system of commodity trading? What potential models of an effective creative practice can we envision and develop?

Artists, designers, media producers, photographers, filmmakers, architects, writers, theorists, educators, cultural historians are invited to submit proposals for presentation and discussion that will inspire others to join them in imagining, inventing, and actualizing a more sustainable and enlightened possible future, whether it be local or global.

What would you do to effect change?Â What would that look like? Do esthetics matter?

We seek provocative and challenging theoretical concepts and/or models for practical application. Visionary, daring, unconventional ideas, collaborations across fields in the arts, sciences, andÂ humanities that conceive different ways to address social, economic, and environmental realities are encouraged.

General topics/themes to consider

Climate Change, the Environment andÂ Sustainable Living:
- Consumption
- Energy
- Waste
- Â Food
- Water
- Air
- Economic & Social Consequences.
The Culture of Violence:
- social
- political
- cultural
- economic manifestations
Technology and Human Rights:
- biological
- political
- intellectual
- spiritual.
Other

PRESENTATION FORMAT

The format for presentation will be an interactive forum of exchange between speakers and audience. There will be no podium. Speakers will be placed within the audience. Presentations may include visuals â€“ images, texts, charts, etc.

Each speaker will be given 7 minutes to present her/his proposal. The audience will then have equal time â€“ 7 minutes to respond and discuss. Time may be slightly less or more depending on the number of outstanding proposals selected.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please send a description of your topic and the theoretical concepts and/or model that you intend to propose in approximately 300 words, plus a brief bio/CV of no more than 2 pages. The 300 word proposal must include a title, name/s of author(s), address, email, phone number. Please submit all proposal files as PDF documents.Â

TO: studio@meme01.com

DEADLINE: FOR PROPOSALS: June 1, 2013 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

NOTIFICATION OF SELECTION: June 20, 2013

Description

The COAL Art & Environment prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL, the coalition for art and sustainable development, to reward a project about the environment by a contemporary artist.

The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for entries.

The COAL Prize 2011, worth 10 000 euros, comes under the auspices of the french Ministry of Culture and Communication, the National Centre of Fine Arts (CNAP), and enjoys the support of PwC and a private benefactor.

Special mention :Â To mark 2011 the International Year of the Forest and promote entries on this theme in 2011, a second prize will reward entries that focus on forest issues.

Schedule

The application period closes on 30 April 2011.

The prize will be awarded in May 2011.

Environment

Today, environmental degradation represents a growing concern, covering a very wide field:

resource management and depletion: water, energy, waste…
crisis factors: system of production and consumption, pollution, demographics, land use…
environmental crises: climate change, rising water levels, loss of biodiversity…
conceptual framework: environmental law, shared assets, social justice, community harmony…

Jury and selection committee

The 2011 juryand selection committee are currently being assembled.

Are already confirmed :

Bernard BlistÃ¨ne, directeur du dÃ©partement du dÃ©veloppement culturel du Centre Pompidou et directeur artistique du Nouveau Festival.

Dominique Bourg, philosopher;

Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, president of the National Centre of Fine Arts;

Patrick Degeorges, Biodiversity department, Ministry of ecology

Eva Hober, Art dealer;

Philippe Jousse, Art dealer;

Sacha Kagan, Founder Cultura21

Sylvain Lambert, PwC associate, sustainable development service

Laurence Tubiana, founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations(IDDRI)

Theresa Van Wuthenau, coordinatrice du rÃ©seau Imagine2020

Selection of entries

The entry selection criteria take stock of the artistic value, relevance (understanding the issues), originality (ability to introduce novel approaches, themes, and points of view), pedagogy (ability to get a message across, to raise awareness), a social and participative approach (engagement, testimony, efficiency, societal dynamics), eco-design, feasibility.

An artistâ€™s specialisation on the environment is not a selection criterion. The aim of the prize is to encourage artists to focus on environmental issues.

An internationally renowned scientific committee

As part of the call for entries, COAL is organizing a meeting between artists and members of the scientific committee, with a view to providing tailored guidance. This scientific committee is made up of:

Edouard Bard, climatologist, CollÃ¨ge de France, science academy, CNRS

Nathalie Blanc, geographer, CNRS UMR LADYSS

Dominique Bourg, philosopher, IEP, UTT, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation,

Denis Couvet, ecologist, MNHN, polytechnic,

Alain Grandjean, associate director, Carbone 4, member of the ecology watch committee of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation.

Coal prize award ceremony

The COAL Art & Environment Prize ceremony is a unique event held in a symbolic location, attended by the artist finalists and personalities from the world of art and sustainable development.

Entries by artist finalists are displayed to promote networking with bodies and authorities, which could facilitate the future realisation of projects.

Support for entries after the COAL prize

Beyond the award ceremony, the COAL prize is an opportunity to promote the entries and artists involved and to demonstrate the creative potential of fine arts with regards to the environment and related issues.

COAL fosters the networking of artists with scientists and stakeholders, and produces, encourages and promotes the numerous entries to the COAL Prize at exhibitions, events and commissions.

Application package

This should comprise the following documents, assembled in a single PDF file:

A Curriculum Vitae and artistic dossier;
A summary and illustrated description of the entry, detailing its artistic aspects and its relevance to the environment;
A note on the technical aspects of the entry, notably in terms of the construction and means of production;
An estimated budget.

Submission

Deadline 30 April 2011

All proposals should be submitted to the COAL FTP server at before 30 April 2011.

Particular conditions

By entering this competition, applicants expressly authorize the COAL association to publish, reproduce and display in public all or part of the elements of their entry, for any purposes linked to the promotion and communication of the COAL project, on all platforms, media, in all countries and for the LEGAL DURATION OF THE COPYRIGHT. Entries submitted but not selected will be held in the archives of the COAL association. They will, however, remain the property of their authors.

Participation in this call entails the full acceptance of the conditions laid out above.

Contact

COAL www.projetcoal.fr

For any further requests please write to contact@projetcoal.fr

AWARD / PRIX COAL 2011 : coal.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE