TippingPoint have announced the second round of commissions with a deadline of 6 December 2010. TippingPoint offers "a range of activities centred on exposing artists from all art forms to the enormous challenges of climate change, working in tandem with the scientists at the forefront of the subject. TippingPoint’s role is to be a catalyst... Continue Reading →
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 →
Sea as Sculptress
Ruth Wallen's project as Artist in Residence at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, in 1978 is an exemplary work and this slideshow/narrative is compelling. Using sculptures as a means to focus learning about the aquatic life of three locations around SF is brilliant.
“TREES are the largest LIVING things on earth…”
The next 'Humanities and Climate Change' meeting will be at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (The University of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW) on Wednesday, 25 August, 1-2pm. Tim Collins will discuss his work with Reiko Goto and their approach to the theory and practice that informs Eden3, an artist-led... Continue Reading →
Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse
In "Plein Air: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse", Reiko Goto and Tim Collins exhibit a box easel for the 21st Century. Like the 19th century realists and impressionists before them, these artists seek authentic experience ‘in nature.’ The artwork experiments with new empathic, body/mind relationships with trees in cities. The ‘plein air’ easel for this exhibition... Continue Reading →
Ecological feminist environmental art
Aviva Rahmani drew attention to the research being undertaken by Maria Minickiello into women in ecological arts. She has a blog entitled ecofemenvart.
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