We received this email and thought it was worth highlighting, Has Donald Trump sunk to a new low? On Friday, he splashed two full-page adverts in Scottish newspapers linking new wind farms to the Lockerbie disaster - and called for people to email Alex Salmond with their opposition. [1] It’s hard to imagine what was... Continue Reading →
COAL Prize Art and Environment 2013: Adaptation
CALL FOR ENTRIES Application deadline: February 28th, 2013 http://www.projetcoal.org/coal/category/prix-coal-2013/ The Coal Prize Art and Environment rewards each year a project by a contemporary artist involved in environmental issues. Its goals are to promote and support the vital role which art and creation play in raising awareness, supporting concrete solutions and encouraging a culture of ecology.... Continue Reading →
Carrying the Fire
Dougie Strang of Carrying the Fire emailed to say "...we're launching Dark Mountain Vol 3 in Edinburgh on Friday December 7th 8-11pm at the Forest Cafe. It will be a fine evening of readings, poetry and music with the likes of Paul Kingsnorth, Mairi Campbell and Em Strang. Do come if you can, and please... Continue Reading →
The High Water Line: The New Yorker
In 2007 the artist Eve Mosher, interested in climate change, followed the 10ft elevation above sea level around Brooklyn and then Manhattan. She called the work High Water Line. She used one of those push along carts that are used to mark football, baseball, rugby and other pitches with chalk (in the US called a... Continue Reading →
Year of Natural Scotland
2013 is designated as the Year of Natural Scotland. We know that the Scottish Poetry Library is planning a programme around this theme, and Creative Scotland are partnering up with SNH for a conference. We've listed below some information which we've been able to pull together. Of course, like Homecoming, this is about tourism,... Continue Reading →
Making It Real: from data visualisations to time streams
[repost from an e-artnow mailing] This symposium (open to fifty attendees) will present work resulting from an innovative collaboration between artists in UK and Brazil and technologists working in the Digital Economy funded Horizon Hub at University of Nottingham, in collaboration with scientists at the UK Met Office and biologists at the Rio de Janeiro... Continue Reading →
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