IMAGINE: Towards an Eco-Aesthetic, 2011 :: The Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art, Denmark :: Open Call to Artists and Curators for Proposals — Deadline: March 15, 2010.

Only when people are in a position to use their own creative potentials, which can be enhanced by an artistic imagination, will a change occur [....] Art can and should strive for an alternative that is not only aesthetically affirmative and productive but is also beneficial to all forms of life on our planet. — Rasheed Araeen: Ecoaesthetics. A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

In the autumn of 2009, Rasheed Araeen, editor of the respected periodical on art and culture Third Text, launched a frontal attack on the modern ego and the recuperation of the avant-garde. Continue reading

ElectroSmog: International Festival for Sustainable Immobility :: Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff / New Zealand / Munich / & on-line No Travel Allowed! :: March 18 - 20, 2010 :: + International Design Competition.

ElectroSmog is a new festival that explores the concept “Sustainable Immobility” in theory and practice. Sustainable Immobility is first of all a critique of the growing global crisis of mobility. Current forms of hyper-mobility of people and products in travel and transport are ecologically increasingly unsustainable. The will to slow down, however, seems thoroughly absent. The economic crisis may have temporarily slowed matters down, long term projections still point towards exponential growth of worldwide mobility and exploding energy needs. Alternatives for the current state of hyper-mobility need to be designed urgently. Continue reading

Where do we go from here? Symposium :: December 12, 2009; 10:00 am - 5:00 pm :: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Strandvej 13, DK-Humlebæk, Copenhagen.

On the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with BMW Group, invites the public to an open symposium comprising international names in the fields of architecture, design, contemporary art and technology. The one-day symposium will, among others, discuss the new challenges pertaining to the environment as well as issues of sustainability in the creative sector. A number of the world’s leading innovative personalities will present their ideas and visions for the future in lectures and discussions. Continue reading

The Aesthetic of the Poles: A Testament of Ice :: October 16, 2009 - February 7, 2010 :: 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, 1bis rue des Trinitaires, Metz, France.

Artists: Dove Allouche et Evariste Richer, Darren Almond, Dominique Auerbacher, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Joachim Koester, Julien Loustau, Bertrand Lozay, Lucy + Jorge Orta, David Renaud, Guido van der Werve, Marijke van Warmerdam.

Greenland, Spitsbergen, Siberia, Antarctica… These names bring to mind cold, ice, and explorers in distress. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who had crossed the polar seas, was afflicted with a condition which, despite his medical training, he could not readily diagnose. Continue reading

Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day) by Carlo Zanni :: October 1-31, 2009 :: The Project Room for New Media, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC.

Flying False Colors is a multimedia project that loosely refers to the 1975 espionage film Three Days of the Condor, directed by Sydney Pollack, which was one of the first films to suggest a link between covert US military operations and the control of oil production in the Middle East.

Like many of Zanni’s past projects, Flying False Colors relies on the fluctuations of live digital information to affect the outcome of his artwork. Flying False Colors consists of a flag set in a wind-generating base that Zanni has programmed to blow at particular speeds and in certain directions based on online data streams that correlate to the number of oil barrels requested by a particular country and the current weather in that country’s capital. Continue reading

Ocean Voices by Halsey Burgund with Wallace J. Nichols: “I am using the website to not only collect voices of people from around the world talking about their experiences with the ocean, but also to create dynamic audio collages combining these voices with instrumental music. But I need many many more voices from all sorts of people from all around the planet, so please check it out, speak your mind, and share it with your friends!

The second part of Ocean Voices will be a performance taking place at the California Academy of Sciences in June, 2010 to celebrate World Ocean Month as well as the 100th anniversary of Jacques Cousteau’s birth. Several of Jacques’ grandchildren will be in attendance and we’re hoping that this combination of conservation and art/music will help open people’s eyes to the importance of the oceans to the overall health of life on this planet.”

Feral Trade Cafe, London from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo.

A Flip camera video. Continue reading

80+1 Kilpisjarvi — Climate Change (Finland): Part of 80+1-project by Ars Electronica :: Conference: July 15-18, 2009 :: Call for Participation.

80 + 1 Kilpisjarvi will host a four day conference (July 15-18) open for participation via the global window in Linz and via stream online. During the four days researchers will present a variety of issues about climate change in the arctic and globally. The themes vary from animal adaptability to societies’ preparedness to a changing environment. The audience has the opportunity to pose questions and discuss climate change with experts. The afternoon offers a video-screening program of artistic approaches related to the topic of climate change. Continue reading

The new issue — Neural 33, Scripting Green — is out.

new.media.art: .Amy Franceschini / Futurefarmers interview .Beatriz da Costa interview .HeHe interview .Transmediale report. news: X-Train, Dead Pixel in Google Earth, TimeStopper . Suffering Machine, Thumbarumba. reviews. books/dvds/floppys: White Heat Cold Logic, Optical Vacuum, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Synthetic Times: Media Art China, nkdlunch.mp4, tapetrff.mp4 .centerfold: ‘Common Flowers’ by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel. Continue reading

Upgrade! Östersund-Stockholm: Ecology and New Media Art — Workshop + Exhibition :: June 8 - 13, 2009 :: Birka Folkhögskola, Birkavägen 25, Ås, Sweden :: Free ! Register until June 30 at upgrade [at] likenow.org (limited to 12 places)

The workshop is dealing with the topics of ecology and the new media art/ sound art, and the participants will be working with solar powered installations of small art, sound gardens with mixed contents of plants, electronics and what the workshop participants will find possible. The different installations will together form a bigger collective installation that will be exhibited to the public at the end of the workshop. The workshop is led by french new media artist Nathalie Fougeras together with the sound artist Björn Eriksson, who together initiated and manages the Upgrade projects in Sweden. Continue reading