Today is the anniversary. Eve Andree Laramee, Professor and Chair, Department of Art & Art History Pace University, NYC provides an overview of 20 years of work on nuclear issues that started with reading a newspaper article on United Nuclear Corporation’s Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Pond Spill, on Navajo land in New Mexico. Sometimes... Continue Reading →
Land Use Strategy pilot: what’s it got to do with artists?
Absolutely fascinating webminar organised the Ecosystems Knowledge Network on the Aberdeenshire Land Use Strategy Pilot undertaken by Aberdeenshire Council and James Hutton Institute. You can access the presentation online here. This two year exercise was one of two pilots funded by the Scottish Government to take the national Land Use Strategy and 'translate' it down... Continue Reading →
SYSTEMS BREAKDOWN
Rachel Duckhouse was Associate Artist engaging staff at Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art around issues of climate change, in response to Ellie Harrison’s Early Warning Sign that the gallery has been hosting. The image above, part of a suite of images in SYSTEMS BREAKDOWN is the result of conversations with staff about their relationships with... Continue Reading →
Call for Ideas – Edinburgh International Science Festival
Edinburgh International Science Festival is the mother of all science festivals and they have a call for ideas out at the moment (Closing 1 September 2015). They have highlighted their ambitions for the 2016 Festival as follows, In 2016 we will transform the halls, gardens, theatres and galleries of Edinburgh into dens of debate, exploring... Continue Reading →
Brandon Ballangee’s exhibition Collapse reviewd in PNAS*
* PNAS is The Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences Brandon Ballangee's work is at once good art and good science. This review draws out both the credibility and context of the work as science as well as the works' existence as art. It also highlights some of the anxieties for artists if... Continue Reading →
Open Call for Entries: Biodiversity/Extinction
ASCI (Art Science Collaborations Inc) is currently calling for works for an exhibition in the New York Hall of Science (deadline 23 August 2015). ASCI has involved two really interesting jurors - Elizabeth Corr from the Natural Resources Defence Council and Paula J Ehrlich from the E.O.Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. The exhibition announcement highlights key themes... Continue Reading →
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