Call: for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES symposium participants – deadline 8 June 2009

CALL for proposals:

Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
August 13-16 in Aizpute (Latvia)

The 4-day symposium gathering together artists, activists, technologists, scientists and researchers, to share their ideas and explorations which deal with renewable energy resources, alternative ecological use of technologies, and other sustainability related issues.

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Themes:

[bio]
Environmental science and ecology – Ecosystem research – Permaculture and biosystem design – Biomass as renewable energy resource – Critical and alternative approaches to biotechnology

[solar]
Sunlight as constant energy resource – Process of photosynthesis – Solar energy technologies

[open source]
Sustainability using open source/information approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and environmental design

[myths & legends]
Historical traditions and modern alternative solutions – Speculations – Critical, utopian or scientific visions of future terrestrial energy

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Location:

The symposium will take place in artists residency center SERDE in Aizpute, a small town in Kurzeme region of Latvia. SERDE is located in old wooden historical building (that also will be used as a specific case for which alternative and ecological approach in developing sustainable systems and renewable energy technologies can be explored and applied).

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Call:

For this symposium, we invite those interested to send their proposals in relation to above mentioned themes,
to the following email address: (and/or )

!!!!!!! Deadline: June 8, 2009

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Participation:

Travel and accommodation/subsistence will be covered for 10 participants from Baltic and Nordic countries, and for 2 participants from EU countries.

For others, participation costs include:
1) admission – free
2) travel (to Riga) – has to be covered by participants (local transportation from Riga to Aizpute will be provided by organisers)
3) accommodation – 10-25 eur per night

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The outcomes of the symposium – new projects, artworks, co-productions – will be presented during the international art and science conference ENERGY that will take place in the framework of Art+Communication festival in Riga, October 15-17, 2009.

Symposium is organised by RIXC, the center for new media culture with the support of Nordic Culture Fund.

The 10 big energy myths – by Chris Goodall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy

Exit Art – call for submissions ‘End of Oil’ – deadline 15 February 2009

EXIT ART ANNOUNCES
5 ConceptPlus Calls
FOR SEA EXHIBITIONS IN EXIT UNDERGROUND

1) Vertical Gardens – Due January 15, 2009
2) End of Oil – Due February 15, 2009
3) America for Sale – Due February 15, 2009
4) Consume – Due March 15, 2009
5) Contemporary Slavery – Due March 15, 2009

In 2009 – 2010 Exit Art’s subterranean venue, Exit Underground, will present five exhibitions for its new initiative SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics). SEA is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns.

We are asking artists to consider the following exhibition themes in the context of SEA’s central mission: to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of socially and environmentally-engaged work, and to provide a forum for collaboration between artists, scientists, activists, scholars and the public. SEA functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.

Exit Underground’s gallery is a unique space that is roughly 480 square feet with eight-foot ceilings.
We are looking for work in the mediums of video, photography, painting, drawing, audio, poetry, and installation – the work MUST be sized appropriately for Exit Underground. Due to the underground aspects of the space, we are limited to presenting wall pieces.

Please Note:
Each exhibition has a specific due date which is listed below the title and in the description itself.

End of Oil – DUE FEBRUARY 15, 2009.

In July 2008, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Companies (OPEC) announced that the price per barrel
of oil had climbed above $145. About three months later, on October 16, 2008, the New York Times reported that oil had fallen below $70 a barrel, more than half of the July 2008 price. Fluctuating oil prices are evidence
of the instability of global oil markets and reminders of our urgent need to develop alternative fuels and forms of energy.

This is a call for proposals for an exhibition that will address human dependence on fossil fuels and the ramifications that this dependency has on the future of the environment and of global geopolitics. The exhibition will address renewable energy options, such as vegetable and electric-powered cars, geothermal energy, and solar power.

We are asking artists to envision alternative narratives for the impending oil crisis by creating works that imagine a future society forced to live with limited access to oil and alternative sources of energy.
DUE FEBRUARY 15, 2009.

Magnificent Revolution at Le Cinema de Broadwater

Update 26 September 2008: some photos from the event!

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http://www.magnificentrevolution.org/2008/09/320/

Autumn is knocking on the door and it’s time for some good films. Over the summer we powered plenty of music, and it’s nice to see the cinema getting back on track! On the 25th of September, Magnificent Revolution is putting on a Pedal Powered Cinema in cooperation with the Haringey Independent Cinema and Broadwater Community Centre. The cinema will be outside in the 1930s shell amphitheater next to the skate park at the Lordship Recreation Ground (near Adams Rd entrance, N17) . If weather fails us, then we’ll relocate to the Broadwater Farm Community Centre. Screening will start at 8pm and we’re going to show Bellevile Randesvouz.

Poster download (PDF).

BAKA BEYOND – Live & Pedal-Powered

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/baka/shop/pages/albums/livepp.htm

“This is the first bicycle-powered digital recording ever (as far as we know). Recorded directly to DAT from the mixing desk, powered by the Rinky Dink, this CD captures the clarity and spirit of the music as it was performed in the summer of 1995.”

Thanks to Paul Conneally for mentioning this!

Revolutionary Cycle cinema – video by Simon Mullen

See NRG unveiled at the IOCT, 23 September 2008, 11.30am

See NRG unveiled at the IOCT, Tues 23 September 2008

About NRG

It’s 2010 and you have been appointed to lead the new World Energy Directorate, with the power to control international spending and research on energy sources and production. Your decisions will influence the life of billions of humans, countless species and the Earth as a whole. How will your choices change all our lives during the planet’s next forty years of industrial development?

Part environmental game, part multimedia artwork, NRG (short for En-er-gy) is self-sustaining, people-powered installation. No previous knowledge about energy issues is assumed or required, but NRG is intended to stimulate thought and discussion about energy consumption, its links to global warming and the need for the development of lifestyle alternatives.

NRG was created as part of the first Digital Writer in Residence position at the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. It is funded by a Grant for the Arts from Arts Council England.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:30 AM (GMT)

Location:
Institute of Creative Technologies
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 9BH
United Kingdom

Click for Details and Registration Information

HYDROUS’08, Rotterdam, 21 August 2008

http://www.hydrousmantle.org

Direct inquiries to Hydrous’08 organizer, Katie Vann
[ katie.vann [at] vks.knaw.nl ]

H Y D R O U S’08 is an occasion for sharing the ideas and techniques of scholars and artists who are working at the intersection of science, technology and water governance issues. The aim is to gather together and contribute to the formation of what is now a nascent zone of governance research and artistic practice. The event is free and open to 4S/EASST participants and the public. HYDROUS’08 is held in conjunction with the bi-annual meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for Social Science and Technology, and will be held in the performance spaces of V2_ Institute for Unstable Media [http://www.v2.nl/], in Rotterdam. Goings on will be streamed at http://live.v2.nl.

[Schedule]

HYDROUS’08 will take place on August 21 ‘08
@
v2Institute for unstable media
eendrachsstraat 10
3012 XL rotterdam

Mix: 18:00
Scholars’ panel: 18:30
Artists’ panel: 20:30
Remix: 22:30

[contributors]

juan c. aceros meredith anderson alice angus brandon bellengee andrea
ballestero wiebe bijker dj morsanek thomas mcintosh paige miller
anders kristian munk niels schoorlemmer saravanan v. subramanian yuji
tateishi katie vann jeremy walker joshka wessels paul wouters + you

enabled by the generous sponsorship of the netherlands organization
for scientific research shifts in governance program
the virtual knowledge studio for the humanities and social sciences

More Pedal-A-Watt

Video of the Pedal-A-Watt in action from the Econvergence website:

Click here to download the original video from the Econvergence website (.avi, 7.6MB).

Transmediale.09 Award Competition – deadline 5 September 2008

TRANSMEDIALE.09 AWARD COMPETITION

Transmediale and Club Transmediale are calling for submissions to the Transmediale Award competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

Transmediale.09 – DEEP NORTH
Festival for art and digital culture

*Transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. Transmediale.09 – *DEEP NORTH* peers beyond the evolving alarmist scenarios of the often global warming debate and shifts this focus to the global artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger.
27 January – 1 February 2009

Club Transmediale.09 – STRUCTURES
Festival for adventurous music and related visual arts

*Club Transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations.

With *STRUCTURES* – Backing-Up Independent Audio-Visual Cultures, Club Transmediale.09 presents projects that spring from the critical, interdisciplinary and experimental practice at the intersections of sound and other art forms. In recent years, a new breed of hybrid projects and initiatives that merges experimental audio and media cultures has developed in the convergence-zone between pop culture, science, arts and media technologies.
23 – 31 January 2009

Find the complete call and submission form for download at:
http://transmediale.de/09/pdf/tmctm09_call_for_entries

Deadline: 5 September.
Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009