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Call for abstracts: Mediating Modernity in the 21st Century â€“ Rethinking and Remembering?

November 11, 2012Cultura21, Open CallsArtist Talks, Artistic Work, Audio Visual Presentations, Bangalore India, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Design And Technology, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Malmo University Sweden, Mexico City, Modernity, Paris France, Presentation Papers, Public Sphere, Sacha, School Of Art, Short Films

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This festival, taking place from theÂ 24th-25th January 2013Â inÂ Bangalore, India,Â organized by theÂ Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, IndiaÂ and theÂ School of Arts and Communication, Malmo University, SwedenÂ is inviting abstract entries till theÂ 20th November 2012.

This festival brings together artists, academics, activists and other media and cultural practitioners to consider how modernity is mediated in the 21st century via a transdisciplinary framework. By bringing together a range of practitioners, the festival hopes to cross-Âpollinate diverse perspectives through conversations on approaches, interests, understanding disciplinary trends and various methodologies.

Four types of presentation-Â papers, artist talks and audio visual presentations of artistic work, short films and performancesÂ â€“ are invited under one of the following panels:

Gendering Modernities
Memories of Modernities
Modernities, Cities and the Public Sphere

For more information on the festival and further details on the call, clickÂ here.

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

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Dancing up Next for iPods – WSJ.com

November 29, 2010newsApple, Artists, Audiences, Ballet, Beatles, Dance Performances, Frontier, Hearts Club Band, Initial Offerings, Itunes, Lonely Hearts Club, Lonely Hearts Club Band, Marc Kirschner, Revenue Stream, Select Group, Sgt Pepper S Lonely Hearts Club Band, Short Films, Street Journal Article, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal, Wsj

TenduTV in theÂ Wall Street Journal:Â Article

Now that the Beatles are downloadable on iTunes, the next frontier awaits: ballet.

On Wednesday, the New York-based distributor of dance programming TenduTV announced that a select group of dance performances and movement-based short films will be among the initial offerings, available in December, for download on Apple’s online service.

Though the upcoming titles may not have the reach of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the announcement marks an important step for dance, said Marc Kirschner, the general manager and founder of TenduTV.

“This is about making the work accessible to audiences â€”accessible in away that delivers quality,” he said, adding that the distribution also means more support for artists. “Dance was never able to develop a secondary revenue stream.”

viaÂ Dancing up Next for iPods – WSJ.com.

WCA Elements: Eco Art Conference page @ Brower Center

June 18, 2010Announcements, ConferencesAndree, Apos S, Art Conference, Berkeley Ca 94704, Colby, Conversation Topics, Cutler, Daniella, David Brower, Deborah Thomas, Entrance Fee, Leibovitz, Munk, Page Elements, Panelists, Ruth Wallen, Short Films, Steinman, Thys, Tierney

On Friday, June 25th, there are three panels arranged to flow in series, on after another and they are Genre's of Eco-Art, Collaboration and Community and in the afternoon, Issues and Activism

Genres of Eco-Art: Moderator, Deborah Thomas with Â Susan Leibovitz Steinman and Ruth Wallen as panelists.

Collaboration and Community: Moderator Susan Leibovitz SteinmanÂ with Â Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Jennifer Colby, Deborah Munk and Tierney ThysÂ as panelists.

Issues and Activism: Moderator, Michelle Lipsinki with Andree Singer Thompson, Beverly Naidus, Daniella RussoÂ andÂ Â Samantha Fields as panelists.

There are also short films being shown in a separate room, during these panels and through the breaks.

You can spend your day in either place, or mingling with the other attendees. At your hosted luncheonÂ the panelists will have tables earmarked for conversation topics,Â relevant to the work of the panelist.

Entrance fee for the entire conferenceÂ is $90Â in advance and $125 at the door. Conference schedule is at the bottom of this page.

Elements Conference schedule on June 25th, 2010 at the David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

WCA Elements: Eco Art Conference page @ Brower Center.

APInews: Seattle Celebrates Urban Creeks, Watersheds

July 9, 2009newsArt Project, Bitter Lake Reservoir, Cultural Affairs, Fremont Bridge, Kristen, Neighborhood Art, Public Artworks, Seattle Office, Seattle Public Utilities, Short Films, Splendor, Spring And Summer, Stewardship, Towles, Urban Creeks, Volunteer Park, Water Flow, Water Tower, Watersheds

Scores of Seattleites have been crocheting for months to create artist Mandy Greer’s “Mater Matrix Mother and Medium,” a 200-foot fiber “river” among the trees at Camp Long. Greerr installs the piece this week at Polliwog Pond. It’s part of a spring and summer of temporary public artworks, performances and films commissioned by the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs “to celebrate the splendor of Seattle’s urban creeks” and encourage stewardship of essential watersheds. They include “Waterlines,” a performance in Volunteer Park where Stokley Towles traces the city’s water flow through interviews with city utility employees; a large, biodegradable water tower at the Bitter Lake Reservoir by John Grade; artists’ new short films on the work of Seattle Public Utilities; and a residency on the Fremont Bridge, plus a neighborhood art project, by Kristen Ramirez.

via APInews: Seattle Celebrates Urban Creeks, Watersheds.

Short Darwin films online

May 18, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyBrain, Darwin, Diversity, Ecology, Films Online, Gems Of Wisdom, Image Agency, Insect Specimens, Legacy, Minute Film, Moving Image, Nature, Occasional Moments, Origin Of The Species, Paul Bush, Questions Of Life, Related Films, RSA Arts & Ecology, Short Films, Solitude

Iâ€™ve just been watching a series of short films exhibited online by the artist-moving-image agency Lux in honor of the 200th year of Darwinâ€™s birth. Theyâ€™ve put up four short films that consider, in their words, â€œDarwinâ€™s complex legacyâ€.

There are a couple of real gems there; go have a look. In particular:

Paul Bushâ€™s While Darwin Sleeps 2004 (illustrated) is a four-minute film that animates 3,000 dead long-dead insect specimens, cunningly using their very diversity to bring them alive again.

And Ben Riverâ€™s wonderfully slow and measured Origin of the Species 2008 is a portrait of an unnamed auto-didact hermit, fascinated by the big questions of life and nature. In occasional moments of voice-over reflects on them from the solitude of his woodland hut. Among the gems of wisdom he dispenses is this one, which I particularly love:

â€œManâ€™s brain. It evolved real quick. And itâ€™s trouble. Itâ€™s just trouble.â€

Go to the Lux collection of Darwin-related films.

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Green Sundays start at Arcola Theatre

March 9, 2009Arcola, Ashden DirectoryArcola Theatre, Climate Change, Creative Industry, Daily Bread, Dalston, Environment, Food Chain, Food Travel, friends of the earth, Launch, London, Music Games, Open Mic, Partner, People, Politics, presentation, Short Films, Speakers, Umbrella

Arcola EnergyÂ will hostÂ Green SundaysÂ on the first Sunday of each month, starting with a launch on 1 March. The Green Sundays are free events, and the public is welcome to drop in toÂ Arcola TheatreÂ throughout the day from 1:30 – 7:30 pm.

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The Green Sundays programme will feature music, games, films, speakers and readings based loosely on an issue under the climate change umbrella, such as food, travel, energy or politics.

Green Sundays are intended to demonstrate how a creative industry, such as theatre, can provide a space to discuss the environment and how people can work together to tackle climate change.

The March launch theme was food – growing, making, enjoying and sustaining food. The day included meals, short films and a screening of ‘Our Daily Bread’, a reading fromÂ The Hungry Cyclist: Pedalling the Americas in Search of the Perfect MealÂ by the author Tom Kevill-Davies, an open mic session and presentation of the Food Chain Campaign byÂ Friends of the Earth,

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Arcola’s partner for Green Sundays isÂ Be The Change.

www.arcolatheatre.comÂ
www.arcolaenergy.comÂ

a: 27 Arcola StÂ
London, E8 2DJÂ
Nearest station- Dalston Kingsland

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