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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Database of Eco Public Art

September 8, 2013Announcements, EcoArt, Open CallsBroader Community, Creative Practitioners, Director Center, Editorial Committee, Environmental Health Clinic, External Constraints, Fenner, International Advisory Committee, Jill Bennett, Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University, Newcombe, Project Legacy, Public Art, Public Artworks, Social Transformation, Sustainable Practice, University College London, University Director, University Of Cincinnati

The Curating Cities Database maps the increasingly important and emerging field of eco-sustainable public art. It is developed as a resource for researchers, academics, artists, curators, educators, commissioning agencies and sponsors working in the field as well as those interested in promoting sustainability via public art. In addition to descriptive information, the database evaluates the aims and outcomes of each project as well as the external constraints (and subsequent negotiations) that influence the production of public artworks. eco-publicart.org

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

Jill Bennett, Felicity Fenner, Lindsay Kelly and Veronica Tello. Sustainability Consultant: Jodi Newcombe.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

T.J Demos (University College London); Ian Garrett (York University/Director, Center for Sustainable Practice); Natalie Jeremijenko (New York University/Director of Environmental Health Clinic); Sacha Kagan (Leuphana University LÃ¼neburg/Founder of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability and the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation); Adrian Parr (University of Cincinnati).

We invite submissions from curators, researchers, academics and creative practitioners.

PURPOSE

Our intention is to develop a resource that will be of value to all those interested in public art, including specialists and the broader community. The database entries are concise but designed to go beyond the short profiles readily available on other sites. To that end, we have developed a template and guidelines designed to elicit key information regarding the sustainability (as conceived within the particular project), legacy, engagement and circumstances of an artworkâ€™s production. Recognising that public art is not always well served by bureaucracies, entries may also record useful information on external constraints and how these were negotiated.

SCOPE

We are looking to achieve expansive coverage and are open to suggestions for inclusion (geographic remit is global). Generally, we interpret public art as a creative art form produced for non-gallery contexts (exceptionally, it may include gallery exhibitions with an explicit external engagement focus). We define â€œeco-sustainabilityâ€ to signify an evident interest in ecological, sustainable and/or environmental concerns. It is not our intent to â€˜policeâ€™ the definition of eco-sustainable public art: we are keen to include work that challenges definitions and expectations. As a general indication, we are interested in substantial work that actively engages with its environmental context (rather than in work that merely represents or symbolises an environmental concern).

SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions are peer-reviewed. Each submission should focus on a particular public art project, which must be proposed to the Editorial Committee in advance. Contributors are welcome to profile their own work, either by evaluating their own project or by referencing a larger study or thesis written by them on the same subject. We also invite academics that research and teach in this area to encourage student submissions. We are happy for the template to be used for course assessment exercises and can confer with lecturers regarding the process by which a batch of entries from a class can be peer reviewed/considered for inclusion in the database.

For the template and sustainable evaluation framework and to discuss a potential submission please email v.tello@unsw.edu.au

Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude

July 13, 2012Conferences, Cultura2125 August, Berlin Germany, Book Sense, Climate Change, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Douglas Kahn, Ecological Crises, Environmental Sensor, Francesca, Gabrys, Goldsmiths University Of London, International Array, Jill Bennett, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Modern Thought, New York University, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Niea, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Santa Barbara Co, Sensor Technologies, Smith Professor, Species Extinction, Stanford University, Technology University, Theorists, Timothy Morton, University Of California At Santa Barbara, Vitality

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NIEA Symposium

Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30â€“6:30pm

The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. The symposium follows the lead taken by Ursula Heise in her book Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global to investigate the possibilities and difficulties of sensing the planet, in all senses of sense.

Invited speakers

Ursula Heise, Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature,

Stanford University

The Database and the Ecological Imagination of the Planet

Marko Peljhan, Professor in Art and Media Arts & Technology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Co-director of Arctic Perspective Initiative

One Degree At A Time â€“ Creating Systems of Systems for Interpolar Constructiv(ist)e Engagement

Jennifer Gabrys, Convener of the MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London

Environmental Sensor Technologies and the Arts

Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

Anthropocene Aesthetics

Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University

Of Planet-Sense

Panel discussion

Terry Smith (Professor at Pittsburgh and NIEA, UNSW), Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media & Innovation, NIEA, UNSW), Jill Bennett (Professor and Director, NIEA, UNSW), and others. Convened by Douglas Kahn and Jill Bennett.

Click here to go to the Registration page.

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

Go to Cultura21

warning signs

February 23, 2011newsAbbie, Air Pollution, Car Exhaust, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon Monoxide Levels, Change Colors, Coursework, Culture Section, Fentress, Grad Students, New York University, Nyu Tisch School, Nyu Tisch School Of The Arts, School Of The Arts, Second Hand Smoke, Swanson, Tisch School Of The Arts, University Grad, Warning Signs, Wnyc

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Two New York University grad students have created prototype sweatshirts that change colors upon exposure to pollutionâ€”â€œanything from car exhaust to second-hand smoke,â€Â reported Abbie Fentress Swanson forÂ WNYC’s culture section. One shirt dons a set of lungs, the other a heart. â€œVeinsâ€ running through the organs turn blue when a censor in the fabric detects high carbon monoxide levels, notes Swanson.

The studentsâ€”Nien Lam and Sue Ngoâ€”designed the shirts for a project they call â€œWarning Signs,â€ part of their masterâ€™s coursework for NYU Tisch School of the Arts. “Air pollution is kind of one of these things that’s all around us,” Lam says in Swansonâ€™sÂ piece. “You don’t see it, but it exists, and it’s invisibleâ€”and we wanted to bring that to light.”

From Hypercolor’s Back (Sort of), and It’s Pointing Out Pollution

Future of Urban Agriculture in Rooftop Farms and Natalie Jeremijenko on Popularmechanics.com

June 10, 2010newsActive Member, Aerospace Engineer, Art Movement, Associate Professor, Computer Science, efficiency, Environmental Health, Faculty Appointments, Integrated Systems, Natalie, Natalie Jeremijenko, Neuroscience, New York University, Nyu, Physics, Plants, Popularmechanics, Precision Engineering, Real Estate, Shape, Urban Agriculture, Urban Farm, Visual Art Department

Natalie Jeremijenko, an aerospace engineer and environmental health professor at New York University, came up with a rooftop design to solve these common problems for urban farming. Her fixtures may be more economical than other urban farm concepts because they take up real estate that otherwise goes unused, and unlike other urban farm designs, they can pack in the plants, because everything, from the integrated systems to their bubble shape, is a slave to efficiency.

Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966) is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of theÂ net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology. She is currently an Associate Professor atÂ NYU in the Visual Art Department, and has affiliated faculty appointments in Computer Science and Environmental Studies.

Check out the full article here:

Future of Urban Agriculture in Rooftop Farms – Vertical and Rooftop Agriculture – Popularmechanics.com.

Una Chaudhuri’s Keynote at Earth Matters on Stage

May 26, 2009newsChaudhuri, Co Editor, Collegiate Professor, Contemporary Media, Current Research, Earth Matters, Ecology, Elinor Fuchs, Geography, Jean Genet, Keynote, Media Culture, Modern Drama, New York University, Performance Studies, Rachel Rosenthal, Rosenthal And Co, Semiotic Study, Storms, Yale

Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor and Professor of English and Drama at New York University. She is the author of No Man’s Stage: A Semiotic Study of Jean Genet’s Plays, and Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, editor of Rachel’s Brain and Other Storms: The Performance Scripts of Rachel Rosenthal, and co-editor, with Elinor Fuchs, of Land/Scape/Theater. She is Guest Editor of a special issue of Yale’s Theater journal on “Ecology and Performance,” and of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies on “Animals and Performance.” Her current research and publications explore “zooÃ«sis,” the representation of animals in contemporary media, culture and performance.