… ‘Greenhouse Britain’ [by the Harrisons] recapitulates the convergence of the aesthetic and the ethical, best described by Heidegger when he writes, ‘The first step to vigilance is the step back from the thinking that merely represents…to the thinking that responds and recalls.’ (Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art, 2010) Helen Mayer Harrison and... Continue Reading →
IASH Humanities and Climate Change lunchtime talks
February-March-April events in the series of Humanities and Climate Change lunchtime talks All at 1pm in the IASH, Hope Park Square Friday 11 February 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" Monday, 21 February Professor Lorraine Code... Continue Reading →
Mainstream ecology in public art
Make a contribution, air your most profound lessons (or the things you rant about). The questions raised by art and ecology, the issues of culture in a time of environmental crisis, don't always impact on mainstream public art practices. The public invitation to contribute to a new series of books, entitled Hints and Tips, is... Continue Reading →
ars bioarctica
Ars Bioarctica is long term art and science initiative by the Finnish Bioart Society. Since 2010 it is organizing an artist-in-residency program together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland. The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is is open... Continue Reading →
Artists: Sanna Kannisto
Sanna Kannisto, who will be lecturing at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, 2 Feb 2011, is a photographer who has positioned her work within the field study process of scientific research being undertaken in the South American Rain Forests. Her photography both acknowledges the role of the visual in scientific research and... Continue Reading →
50 years on – a crank’s progress
50 years on – a crank’s progress: a manifesto for the future focused on the development of new approaches to transport and energy (e.g. a girdle of power islands, wind and solar, around the equator).
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