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Environmental Awareness through Eco-visualization
Combining Art and Technology to Promote Sustainability
Abstract: Eco-visualization technology made by media artists offers a new way to dynamically visualize invisible environmental data. Eco-visualization can take many forms. My own practice of eco-visualization involves animating information typically concealed in building monitoring systems, such as kilowatts or gallons of water used. A public display with real time visual feedback promotes awareness of resource consumption and offers a practical alternative to remote meters concealed in utility closets. The long-term goal of most eco-visualization practitioners is to encourage good environmental stewardship using hybrid practices of art and design. This essay contextualizes the emerging field of eco-visualization and its interdisciplinary trajectories. Environmental Awareness through Eco-visualization: Combining Art and Technology to Promote Sustainability by Tiffany Holmes, Neme.org.
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Christina McPhee:
December on -empyre- soft-skinned space : "Crusades and Art as Illegality and Provocation”
Please join guest moderator Ana Valdés (SE) as she engages with a group of activist artists, curators and scholars, including Susan Meiselas (US), Cecilia Parsberg (SE), Jan-Erik Lindstrom (SE), Raul Ferrera-Balanquet (MX), Loretta Napoleoni (UK) and Dahr Jamail ().
As Ana writes:
"The Crusades were the expansion of Europe, stretching its territories North and South, to colonize and spread the Christian Word, meanwhile conquering new markets, new source of raw material, new peoples and new lands. The historical metaphor oj the Crusades is still alive concerning and in presentday Middle East, both as a memory and in relation to contemporary conquests, as well as in the rhetoric of empire.
Today artists, writers and theorists merge in the world, document it and, instead of trying to conquer it, show passion and compassion, denounce, take part, engage themselves. Since Emile Zola wrote "J'Accuse" and Pablo Picasso painted "Guernica", a constant stream of
artists has been exerting their right to dissent and the right to
question power, the status quo and existing norms.
The walls in Palestine, Tijuana, Ceuta and Melilla are not only
symbolic; they build the shape of Fortress Europe, not only the
geographic, but the mythological Europe, the supposed cradle of
Modernity. The Crusades were the clash and the confrontation.
Today's artists and intellectuals search its meaning, study its
effects. Films, photos, texts and installations talk about jails,
fences, workers with precarious jobs paperless immigrants, political
turmoil and mayhem. Fine Arts is today the arena of political
discussions and activist practices.
I've asked some friends and colleagues to join me during one month to
discuss our practices and our engagements, inspired by the above,
under the framework of -empyre- ...
3Cs / counter-cartographies collective
3Cs is a working group of the Cultures of Economies Project supported by the University Program of Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
3Cs formed in the spring of 2005 as a way to explore the uses of cartography and map-making to critically understand and intervene in the world we live in, especially the communities, ecologies and economies of our university.
3Cs is a network of people contributing their skills and knowledge to build a common project for a different/better University. As an open collective, 3Cs attempts to engage in non-hierarchical forms of decision-making, as well as participatory and action-oriented projects.
Terms like globalization, global networks, cyber infrastructures, mass immigration, global free trade policies leave us questioning how these issues pertain to us. Is it just something that happens "out there"? Mapping provides a way to make the connections between UNC and the "real world" visible.
Maps are more and more common in daily life. Through popular programs such as Google Maps and Pentagon mainframe cartographic systems, mapping is an increasingly important way for individuals and institutions to frame their roles and activities in the world. Mapping the university challenges existing notions of higher education institutions and our roles in them.
In referring to the work of Foucault and post-Foucaultian social theory as the "new cartographer" (along with the new archivist), Gilles Deleuze pointed to a mode of investigation and writing that sought, not to trace out representations of the real, but to construct mappings that refigure relations in ways that render alternative worlds. In this project, we begin with this understanding of new cartographies/new mappings, and then turn to the ways in which these new mappings are emerging within social movement, activist, and artist projects to rethink economic practices and institutions. In ...
CALL FOR WORK: A Thousand Tiny Sexes
A THOUSAND TINY SEXES
A publication edited by Jaimes Mayhew and kanarinka
www.1000tinysexes.com
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CALL FOR WORK
To imagine that there are only two sexes - M & F - is an absurdity.
There are at least 1000 sexes. The daily lived reality of transgender
and intersexual people (and gay, lesbian, queer and all other people,
for that matter) proves this over and over again, yet many people
continue to operate as if 'M' and 'F' are the only sexes, the only
options, the only expressions, the only goals, the only way ("the way
it is").
Help us imagine 1000 more sexes. Describe them, imagine them, invent
them, publish them, use them, realize them, perform them.
A Thousand Tiny Sexes is an art-book-research-action project to
collect and publish 1000 proposals for TINY SEXES which are not Male
or Female. We are setting out to collect a thousand more sexes -
imaginary ones, as-yet-unrealized ones, or real ones- in the hopes
that these one thousand might make for one thousand more after that.
In so doing, we hope to contribute to a collective reimagining of sex
as a legal, biological, political, economic, cultural, and political
category.
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ABOUT THE PUBLICATION
The collection of A Thousand Tiny Sexes will be published as a book
with an introductory essay by the editors, Jaimes Mayhew and
kanarinka. We are seeking publishers. The publication will be
available for sale once published. Submissions must meet the criteria
below and the editors reserve the right to reject any submission.
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GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Deadline: No deadline, we will keep collecting until we have 1000
good ones.
You may not propose a sex such as Male or Female that has been
legally codified and naturalized as "the way things are".
You may propose "in-between" sexes which are combinations of Male-
Female, but ...
Trampoline 23rd November
Trampoline – Platform for new media art
www.trampoline.org.uk
Thursday 23rd November 6pm til late
Broadway Cinema, Broad Street, Nottingham, UK
£5.50/£4.20 concessions
Playing with urban structures - the city becomes alive at the touch of a button.
Trampoline will be investigating the relationship between gaming, new media art and our urban environment.
The structures of the city are increasingly pervaded by new media with screens, cctv, electronic networks, mobile devices, implements often designed to control our movement through urban space and even to remove us from our surroundings. We wish to investigate how new media can form an even tighter relationship with our immediate environment – challenge and subvert its conventional structures – hacking the city.
The evening of events brings together performance, video, installation and artists’ presentations.
Blast Theory, renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, will be giving a presentation about their most recent work ‘Day of the Figurines’, premiered at Trampoline’s event First Play Berlin, held in October of this year. www.blasttheory.co.uk
Le Quan Ninh will be bringing his unique form of percussion improvisation to Nottingham in a highly anticipated performance. www.lequanninh.net
Electronic musicians Vastik Root and Little Boy Blue will be meddling with their gameboys and various computer consoles resulting in a climax of energetic noise. www.myspace.com/vastikroot
Frank Abbott will be presenting his epic performance ‘From Here to the End of my Garden’ a series of four presentations throughout the evening, merging spaces together with his mobile projector, recreating his garden within Broadway Cinema.
Other works on show include:
An ‘urban carpet’ will be set somewhere in the streets of Nottingham and pedestrians may find the ground beneath their feet suddenly responding to their movements.
An interactive virtual pool ...
Wanted: Adjunct Professor in Experimental 3D Animation
United States of America
Experimental Animation Adjunct Professor Wanted
United States of America
Inquiries please email Mark Cooley at mcooley@gmu.edu for more information.
Mark Cooley
New Media Art Program Coordinator
Green Studio Coordinator
School of Art, George Mason University
open source software / college new media art programs
Thanks,
mark
A Lion King Remake
This is what you get when you add:
40 or so severely fatigued freshmen game design students
+ a cruel instructor ready to indulge in his student's childhood dreams (which in this case, are sponsored by the Disney Corporation).
+ a staged classroom battle and eventual consensus over candidates for 'remake' (close competitors included Terminator 2, Harry Potter & LOTR).
+ each student given two 15 second segments of LK to remake.
chaos ensues
http://flawedart.net/courses/lion_king/
Adjunct Professor New Media Art George Mason University (DC suburbs)
United States of America
The New Media Art program in the School of Art at George Mason University is currently accepting C.V.s for potential adjunct professor teaching positions in New Media Art beginning this fall.
Interested individuals please contact Mark Cooley - mcooley@gmu.edu.
Thank you,
Mark Cooley
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator - New Media Art
School of Art
George Mason University
mcooley@gmu.edu