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 →
Art, GIS and the Geographic Imagination – Funded Studentship:
Deadline 23rd November - contact Deborah Dixon asap. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Opportunity: For a PhD on “New Visual Economies: Art, GIS and the Geographic Imagination,” supervised by Prof. Deborah Dixon in partnership with Environment Systems. Project Summary: This is one of three interlinked PhD studentships that, in collaboration with three organisations in different sectors --... Continue Reading →
Big Coal Bullying Prompts University to Destroy Artwork
Sadly Chris Drury's sculpture in Wyoming is to be destroyed, as reported by Mary Anne Hitt: Big Coal Bullying Prompts University to Destroy Artwork.
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