Lovely Weather in Donegal

Donegal County Council and Leonardo/Olats are happy to announce the opening of the Lovely Weather Art & Climate Change exhibition resulting from the residencies. The 5 projects and artists are : - Weather Proof (Real-Time), Antony Lyons - The Irish Rover: Looking for Mars Off the Northern Coast of Ireland, The League of Imaginary Scientists... Continue Reading →

Torrey Canyon

The Torrey Canyon disaster was the largest shipwreck to that date and resulted in large sections of the British and French coastlines being polluted by crude oil. It was 1967. They didn't know what to do with the oil so they put a lot of what washed up on the island of Guernsey into a disused quarry.... Continue Reading →

Unruly ecologies: Biodiversity and art

The SymbioticA programme at the University of Western Australia are holding a seminar on biodiversity and art which includes a call for examples as follows. Call for contemporary artworks for a survey of examples: Artist whose work explores the idea of biodiversity are invited to post links to their work under the following categories or email an... Continue Reading →

SHFT

Added link to SHFT.com (subtitled 'curating the culture of today's environment'), a lifestyle website aiming to be modern and eco-conscious: some politics, some shopping.  Remain to be persuaded.

Benoît Mandelbrot 1924-2010

From Jacques Mandelbrojt via Roger Malina and the YASMIN list: FRACTALS IN ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Benoit Mandelbrot French and American mathematician who passed away two nights ago was born in Warsaw . He and his family fled away from Hitler to France in 1936 where he was greeted by his uncle, the mathematician Szolem... Continue Reading →

IASH Humanities and Climate Change

There will be two lunchtime talks in the Humanities and Climate Change series this autumn - details as follows: Monday, 11 October at 1 p.m. Rachel Howell (Postgraduate, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability): "Lights, camera... action? The impact of the climate change film 'The Age of Stupid'" Friday, 26 November at... Continue Reading →

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