[Details of dark version (Mushroom's mycelium) left, light version (Spider web) right.] Light and Dark Networks by Ursula Endlicher, commissioned by the Whitney Museum for whitney.org: Continue reading

Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles, edited by Jane Marsching and Andrea Polli:

Human understanding of the rapidly changing environments of the North and South Poles — and the realities of climate change — has been radically transformed by a host of innovations afforded by the digital technologies. Far Field presents essays from artists and scholars who address the shift in our collective cultural understanding through a selection of the most significant artistic, scientific, technological, and philosophical interpretations of the poles over the past decade. Amply illustrated and including fascinating first person accounts of projects at the poles, this cutting-edge volume will have important implications for contemporary cultural studies and the critical study of climate change. Continue reading

Techno-Ecologies: Call for Papers — Deadline: February 15, 2012 (abstracts are welcome by January 31).

Concept:: Technology can no longer be understood as an alterity (otherness) that stands in opposition to biological and social relationships. Going about our regular practices of everyday living we inhabit complex technological spheres of life that require a different, a more ‘ecological’ understanding of our relationship to technology. In analogy to the ‘deep ecology’ movement, philosopher David Rottenberg recently suggested that the notion of ‘deep technology’ relates user and context in an ecological, symbiotic way [1]. Continue reading

Coal Prize Art & Environment 2012: Rural and Farming :: Call for Entries — Application Deadline: February 12, 2012. Continue reading

Announcing RR02: Regional Relationships is very pleased to announce our second mailing, Greetings from the Cornbelts, a project by Claire Pentecost. Continue reading

Networked: Dialogue and Exchange in the Global Art Ecology — International Conference :: November 26-27, 2011 :: Bloomberg Space, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD.

Networked: Dialogue and Exchange in the Global Art Ecology brings together leading artists, curators, art managers, funders and policy makers from over 40 countries to debate the increasing role of cultural networks in supporting artists and organisations world-wide.

The conference marks the 30 anniversary of the founding of Triangle Network, an international network of artists and organisations around the world, that facilitates dialogue and exchange through workshops, residencies and exhibitions. Continue reading

#TrainingYRHuman by ecoarttech: A participatory Twitter-based artwork about the agency of animals who live with human-animals. While new scientific research has illuminated animals’ behaviors, their ethical attitudes, modes of cognition, and psychological awareness, our everyday experiences can also tell us a lot about our companion species if we listen carefully — about their diverse personalities and creative problem-solving and the ways they invent to express themselves and meet their needs in desires in a human-dominated world.

The #TrainingYRHuman participatory physical installation will début in beta form at the Animal Influence media art exhibition at Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s Intersections Digital Studios, November 2011. Thank you to University of Rochester for support of this project. More info >>

Live!iXem 2011 :: Call for Sound Installation Works [PDF] - Deadline: February 26, 2012.

AntiTesi in collaboration with the Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Trapani, is announcing a Call for Proposals for Sound installations to present at Ex Stabilimento Florio delle Tonnare di Favignana e Formica in Favignana Island. This call is connected to the Eighth edition of the Live!IXem festivals of music, sound and electronic arts.

The aim is to highlight the works of those artists who, involved in an experimental and creative exploration, use sound, integrating it with electronic audio-visual and digital design for Art installations in specific sites. Continue reading

The Virtual Water Project by Timm Kekeritz, part of Surface Tension, Dublin.

People use large amounts of water for drinking, cooking and washing, and even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, and almost every other physical product. Usually, the amount of freshwater that goes into making a product – its virtual water content – far exceeds the amount contained in it at the end of the process. The water footprint of a person, company or nation is not unlike their ecological footprint. It is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the commodities, goods and services that they consume. Based on data gathered by Hoeckstra et al. on the water footprints of nations, designer Timm Kekeritz created a set of infographics to make the issue of virtual water and the water footprint perceivable. In collaboration with his colleague Frank Rausch, the Virtual Water iOS app was created in 2010. Continue reading