Project 929: Mapping the Solar — Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention by Joseph DeLappe :: May 19-29, 2013 :: LIVE STREAM. Continue reading

Digital Media Research Seminar: Programming Environments: Politics and Practices of Urban Sensing by Jennifer Gabrys :: August 23, 2012; 2:00 - 4:00 pm :: EB2.21, University of Western Sydney, Parramatta Campus, Cnr of James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere, Australia.

Urban sensing technologies are an increasing feature of urban design and media design. From “Senseable” to “Sentient” cities, as well as numerous projects that deploy mobile and embedded sensors to monitor everything from air pollution to traffic patterns, urban processes are now unfolding through wireless sensor technologies. This paper will focus on a particular aspect of urban sensing projects, namely those actual and speculative proposals that suggest wireless sensing technologies are a way to achieve more sustainable and efficient cities. Continue reading

Carbon 13 presented in conjunction with The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate & Sustainability :: August 31, 2012 - February 17, 2013 :: Opening: August 31; 6:00 - 8:00 pm :: Ballroom Marfa, 108 East San Antonio Street, Marfa, TX.

“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” –Marshall McLuhan

Carbon 13 presents newly commissioned work by eight international artists who have focused the lens of their creativity to interrogate the reality of climate change. These new and daring works demonstrate that one salient image can speak louder than volumes of scientific data and capture the public’s imagination with an immediate and resonate voice. Continue reading

Wilderness Art Conference: Wind As Context :: May 24-26, 2012 :: Marjaniemi Luotsihotelli & Cafe Bar Haiku, Hailuoto, Finland. Program here. Continue reading

You are invited to apply for a place in the 2012 Session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa). The 2012 Session, Futures of Nature, is part of a drive within the humanities to reframe the disciplines and critical theory in light of the environmental emergency that is said to endanger most species on the planet, including our own.

We will reflect on some of the major challenges relating to the contemporary conditions and the long-term sustainability of life on Earth. Ours is an age characterized by the indelible imprint of human activity on the Earth’s climate, its geology and its conditions – a process which may lead to the planet’s becoming inhospitable to human life. It is also an era that blurs the distinction between human history and culture and the Earth’s natural history and material composition. Continue reading

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

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist who translates weather data into complex sculptures and musical scores.

“Recently, I have begun translating weather data collected in cities into musical scores, which are then translated into sculptures as well as being a source for collaboration with musicians. These pieces are not only devices that map meteorological conditions of a specific time and place, but are also functional musical scores to be played by musicians. While musicians have freedom to interpret, they are asked not to change the essential relationship of the notes to ensure that what is still heard is indeed the meteorological relationship of weather data.” (Scroll down for the Call for Composers.) Continue reading

The COAL Prize Art&Environment — Focus on Rural Issues and Agriculture :: Call for Entries – Deadline: January 15, 2012.

The COAL Prize Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for entries.

The COAL Prize supports the vital role of culture and creation for taking stock and then rolling out concrete solutions. COAL Prize is helping to foster a culture of ecology. Worth 10 000 euros, The COAL Prize was launched in 2010 by the French association COAL (Coalition for Art and Sustainable Development).

Expanding the Documentary: New Media and the Digital Documentary :: October 14, 2011; 9:00 am - 10:00 pm :: SUNY, Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY :: Registration required.

Artists, in recent years, have pioneered forms of interactive, environmental, and database art that document socio-political, cultural, and natural phenomena that were once the purview of the film and video documentary. While film and video had the ability to collect, record, narrate, and argue about the historical world, expanded documentarians utilize the full palette of digital media in order to engage audiences, participants, and users in the production, archiving, and mapping of the real. Continue reading

Field_Notes – Cultivating Ground :: September 26 - October 2, 2011 :: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Kilpisjärvi, Lapland, Finland.

Field_Notes – Cultivating Grounds is a week long field laboratory for theory and practice on art&science work. Five expert groups (Arctic Waters, Biological Milieu, Body Nature, Environmental Computing, Second Order) will develop, test and evaluate specific artistic approaches based on the interplay of art&science.

With: Anu Osva, Andrew Paterson, Anne Lehtelä, Antti Tenetz, Beatrize da Costa, Benjamin Pothier, Continue reading