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To Life! eco art in pursuit of a sustainable planet

December 21, 2012ecoartscotlandArt Artists, Blurb, Books, Curators, Ecology, Edge Research, Fremantle, Groups, International Artists, International Networks, Learning Resources, Linda Weintraub, People, Research Associate, Robert Gordon University, School Of Art, Scientists, Sustainable Planet, Theoretical Texts, University California, University Of California, University Of California Press

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Linda Weintraub has produced an excellent series of books on arts and ecology â€“ they are toolkits and learning resources suitable for people who want to know more or engage groups in arts and ecology.

The most recent just published by the University of California Press is To Life!Â The blurb is here Linda Weintraub: To Life! and you can purchase it here University of California Press.Â Other titles are here.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.
It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
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Multispecies Intra-Actions: A Round Table with Karen Barad

November 11, 2012Cultura21Alchemy Workshop, Assorted Texts, Audience Members, Barad, Berlin Germany, Boundaries, California Santa Cruz, Charter, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Differential, Ebb And Flow, Ethnographers, Feminist Studies, Francesca, History Of Consciousness, Kagan, Kajsa, Karin, Koefoed, Lullaby, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Philosophy, Rana, Sacha, San Francisco, Somarts, University Of California, University Of California Santa Cruz, Vitality

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On theÂ 17th NovemberÂ fromÂ 10:45AMÂ toÂ 12:30 PMÂ (PST) at theSOMArts centreÂ inÂ San FranciscoÂ the public is invited to participate in a roundtable discussion withÂ Karen Barad, currently Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a diverse panel of researchers ranging from ethnographers to artist.

Baradâ€™s seminal 1996 essay, where she coined the term â€œintra-action,â€ will serve as a theoretical charter for the roundtable.

â€œBoundaries do not sit still, it is through specific intra-actions that a differential sense of being is enacted in the ongoing ebb and flow of agencyâ€¦Agential intra-actions are specific causal material enactments that may or may not involve â€˜humans.â€™ Indeed, it is through such practices that the differential boundaries between â€œhumansâ€ and â€˜nonhumans,â€™ â€˜cultureâ€™ and â€˜nature,â€™ the â€˜socialâ€™ and the â€˜scientificâ€™ are constitutedâ€

Members of the roundtable will each give short â€œprovocationsâ€ (3-5 minutes), bringing Barad into conversation with empirical matters and concepts from their own assorted texts on the table. Audience members are also invited to participate in the discussion and become provocateurs.

Following the roundtable,Â Karin BolenderÂ of the Rural Alchemy Workshop will be performing â€œGut Sounds Lullabyâ€ at 2:00PM in the same space.

For more information:Â http://www.somarts.org/multispecies/

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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APInews: Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map

September 18, 2009news29 Palms, California Institute, Center Of Attention, Colorado Desert, Debates, Desert Oasis, Deserts, Dune Systems, Immersion, Map, Mapping, Margins, Riversides, sustainability, Sweeney Art Gallery, Symposium, University California, University Of California

“Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map” is “an arts-centered investigation” of Californias deserts by UC Riversides Sweeney Art Gallery, October 22-25, 2009. The project also investigates “the new, not-so-new and downright ancient technologies that make such mapping possible.” The four-day gathering, along with a year-long series of events focused on Californiaâ€™s deserts, is partially funded by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts in association with its new Social Ecologies: California-centric embedded arts research program. the “Dry-immersion Roving Symposium” exploring “widespread concern over environmental, economic and cultural sustainability is fast pushing the desert from the margins to the center of attention in debates on the future of our planet” includes tours of the 29 Palms Marine Base and the lower Colorado desert oasis/dune systems and lectures and discussion on desert issues.

via APInews: Mapping the Desert/Deserting the Map .