Artist in Residence and Writer in Residence 2010-11

University College London

University College London

UCL Environment Institute

The UCL Environment Institute in conjunction with TippingPoint®, UCL Slade School of Art and the UCL History Department, is seeking to appoint an Artist-in-Residence and a Writer-in-Residence for the 2010-11 academic year.

With these two posts, the UCL Environment Institute is hoping to enhance further its aim of connecting the arts community and environmental professionals in order to explore and promote the relationship between the arts, science, technology, business and the environment, as a means of enhancing understanding and fostering collective action.

Both the artist and writer will be required to conduct a programme of work for academic staff and researchers linking art/creative writing with environmental issues centered on climate change. The specific content and structure of this programme will be from your proposal and will form the basis of selection at the interview stage. We anticipate that it might include a combination of various types of activities and styles of art.

The award for each is for 2 days per week for 9 months (October - June) and it is £8,000 plus up to £1,000 for expenses. The UCL Environment Institute will provide office space as required during this period.

The closing date for applications is 5pm, 2^nd July 2010; late applications will not be accepted. Interviews will be held on 12^th July 2010. Only shortlisted applicants will be notified. Please send 5 copies of the application to Nina Crane, UCLEI, Pearson Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT or by email: n.crane@ucl.ac.uk. The application should include the following: an outline of the proposed programme of work, a brief CV and, if appropriate, examples of recent work. Please note any work sent can only be returned if an SAE is included and is specifically requested.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/environment-institute/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/index.php

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/

http://www.tippingpoint.org.uk/

GLOBAL CLIMATE ART PROJECT WITH 350.ORG

GLOBAL CLIMATE ART PROJECT

GUIDELINES

We welcome new and bold ideas for the 20 plus art pieces we will be capturing via satellite on November 27^th + 28^th

Because this is a unique collaboration between artists and 350.org, we invite artists to participate at all levels from conceptualizing an idea that we execute on our own, to designing a piece and being physically on site to facilitate the piece being realized.

Below are some basic guidelines that will increase the likelihood of the art being successfully captured by satellite. We encourage creative visions and therefore invite artists to suggest ideas that might not exactly fit the guidelines below.

SIZE - The ideal minimum size for capturing the art via satellite is roughly equivalent to a soccer field, e.g. 120 yards x 75 yards or 110 meters x 70 meters.

MATERIALS – We respect that many of you use specific materials for your work. For your medium for this unique collaboration, we invite you to incorporate the people throughout the world who make up 350’s amazing international grassroots network. In some regions of the world 350.org has a very strong presence and can bring 1,000 plus people to participate in your art.

Note: If you would like to use or incorporate materials into the sculpture, we recommend that you use waterproof materials that can withstand the outdoor elements.

CONTRAST – is what make the images pop from afar so any piece that involves sharp color or shape contrast is fantastic.

TIME OF DAY – The satellite images can be taken during the day or at night. (If you’re considering a nighttime installation involving illumination, we encourage artists to use light sources that are not energy intensive. We would be happy to brainstorm ideas with you.)

350.ORG SUPPORT

Although 350.org cannot monetarily compensate artists, we can support and augment your work in a multitude of ways:

MATERIALS: As noted above, 350.org has an international grassroots network of people who can serve as the medium for your piece. Please note that 350.org’s presence varies based on geographical location. We would be happy to discuss which region you would like to showcase your piece in, how many people on the ground will be available to participate in the piece, the specific topography of the region etc.

REGIONAL COORDINATORS: 350.org has regional coordinators who can provide on the ground volunteers to help facilitate creating your art piece. This includes scouting locations, helping secure permits, organizing the volunteers who will make up your art piece etc.

GLOBAL COORDINATOR: A global coordinator will be managing the art project from inception through the to weekend of the launch.

DOCUMENTATION + INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

CREATION of ART – We are currently talking to various photographers and cinematographers about documenting the creative process involved in bringing these visions to life. The idea is to use these images and footage as part of a multi-media piece we are creating as well as to offer these images and footage to mainstream press on the weekend of the reveal. Artists will be provided free copies of all images and video footage generated of their art by photographers and cinematographers collaborating with 350.org.

ON-SITE NOV 27 + 28 – The goal is to provide an aerial shot of the piece (satellite), as well as close up on the ground photos (and where feasible, video), of the art and people involved. Artists will be provided free copies of all images and video footage generated of their art by photographers and cinematographers collaborating with 350.org.

PRESS - 350.org has a stellar communications team with a successful track record of garnering press for their international actions. For example, last October 24, 2009, 350.org coordinated 5200 simultaneous demonstrations around the world, what CNN called ‘the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history’ on any issue. Due to 350.org communications team, these actions were also widely covered by a wealth of media outlets from local to global media giants like CNN. We have already begun discussions with Google.org and YouTube about featuring the art pieces on their websites the weekend of the reveal.

PLEASE CONTACT US

We appreciate that the above information is just a slice of the information you need for creating an art piece. Because we don’t want to overwhelm you, we sought to keep this introduction simple. We would be more than happy to provide you additional information, field any additional questions you might have etc. Please don’t hesitate to contact us: heidi@350.org 415.845.6330

VAN HORN PRESENTS KATIE HOLTEN

Photo © Katie Holten, studio, 2010

VAN HORN PRESENTS KATIE HOLTEN

2010

JUNE 11 - JULY 17, 2010

Opening June 11, 7pm

We are very pleased to announce our third solo exhibition with Katie Holten, which will be her first in the new VAN HORN space.

At the root of Katie Holten’s practice is a love of drawing. In 2010 Holten presents a series of new drawings that deepen her curiosity for the conditions by which specific natural materials, such as twigs, stones and fossils, both emerge from and return to culture.

The gallery walls are painted the ‘average color of the universe’ (as calculated by astrophysicists at Johns Hopkins). The first and ‘incorrect’ version is popularly called Cosmic Turquoise. The painted walls serve as the ‘ground’ on which the drawing installation takes form. 2010 grows out of Holten’s recent discussions with historians, economists, geophysicists, musicians, botanists, ecologists, teachers, and architects during her exploration of the ecosystem in the South Bronx, NY for her acclaimed Tree Museum (2009-2010).

In these new works Holten takes pages from The Golden Bough (Frazer, 1953), On Aggression (Lorenz, 1963) and Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins (Lorenz, 1973) and uses them as both a surface for drawing on and as material for making drawn sculptures. Holten uses these seminal texts as ‘readymade’ narratives - the printed words on the pages tell the story of man’s fascination with, control of, and domination over nature – while Holten’s drawings depict man-made objects, from pre-historic stone tools to Cumulus clouds created from smog and contrails. These drawings continue Holten’s ongoing meditation on the inextricable link between man and nature in the age of the Anthropocene. The ecological is now entwined with the economical. 2010 explores where we are coming from, where we are at now and where we are going, or could be going.

"The basis of the work of Katie Holten is the relationship between nature, social construction and memory. The poetics of the Irish artist prompts reflection on the perception of the life systems and organic processes that surround us, with the aim of revealing spaces that are often overlooked. In the recent work The Golden Bough the artist comes to terms with the relativity of science, showing us ‘Cosmic Latte’ and ‘Cosmic Turquoise’, the average color of the universe. Imagination, science and nature intertwine in a dialogue intended to reactivate dulled senses." Ilaria Gianni, 2010

Katie Holten was born in 1975 in Dublin and represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Recent solo museum exhibitions include The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2010), The Bronx Museum, New York (2009), Nevada Museum of Art (2008), Villa Merkel, Esslingen (2008) and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2007).

VAN HORN

ACKERSTR. 99, 40233 DÜSSELDORF

T+F. +49 211 5008654 M. +49 172 2355557

INFO@VAN-HORN.NET WWW.VAN-HORN.NET

Emerging Landscapes Conference

Emerging Landscapes

This conference is a joint venture between the School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the School of Media, Arts, and Design, University of Westminster.

Dates: 25 - 27 June 2010

Outline
The past thirty years have witnessed social, geopolitical, technological, and economic change on a global scale. Alongside these shifts, landscape has also changed its nature. Focusing primarily, not not exclusively, on the synergies between the disciplines of photographer and architecture, this international and interdisciplinary conference will examine and critically reassess the interface between production and representation in the creation of contemporary landscape.

Emerging Landscapes asks practitioners, writers, critics, artists, and others working in the broad fields of the built environment (ie: architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design) and the represented environment (ie: photography, film, and the visual arts) to reconsider the idea of landscape by interrogating the relationship between space and image; to explore the synergies that exist between landscape representation - the imaginary and symbolic shaping of the human environment - the landscape production - the physical and material changes wrought on the land.

See http://www.emerginglandscapes.org.uk/ for more information and schedule.

2010 Land/Water Summer Symposium

Land/Water consists of artists, writers and curators who embrace a diversity of creative and critical practices. As a research group it operates as a forum for interrogation of nature and culture, aesthetics and representation. Questioning imagery and practices relating to land, landscape and place is central to our ethos. As artists, writers, curators we work individually exploring space and place as a point of departure for experimenting in new modes of communication through picturing. We generate work that addresses a range of issues. These include environmental change, sustainability, journey, site and regional specificity.

In addition a forum for theoretical and methodological debate is constructed through research events, exchange exhibitions (with other HE Institutions), conferences, symposia and publications.

The 2010 Land/Water Summer Symposium Land and the Metaphysical will be held Thursday 1st - Friday 2nd July at University of Plymouth: please seeEvents section for details.

VIsit http://landwater-research.co.uk/ for more info.

18th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012)

The ISEA International Foundation Board is pleased to announce that the
18th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012) will be held in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

ISEA2012 has been awarded to the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of
Fine Arts in collaboration with 516 ARTS

The New Mexico bid was presented at ISEA2009 Belfast.
Following a final submission process, the Foundation Board has agreed that
the New Mexico proposal is dynamic and diverse, with a strong regional and
environmental focus.

ISEA2012 will be staged in Fall 2012 in Albuquerque and Santa Fe with
the bulk of the symposium held on and near the University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque.

On hearing news of the successful bid, Prof. Polli commented: "New Mexico is
unique not only as the site of the most ancient settlements in the country,
dating back to 1100 A.D., but as the site of many scientific breakthroughs
and controversies including the first atomic detonation. Our location is
experiencing some of the fastest growth in the country with high-energy
research at Sandia and Los Alamos Laboratories, the first commercial
Spaceport, and an active film and game industry, while also being the home
to 19 Native American Pueblos. We hope that the site will inspire a wide
range of projects including many that extend outside the gallery and
conference center walls."

For further information please contact ISEAHQ Director Sue Gollifer
info@isea-web.org

CELEBRANDO LAS ACEQUIAS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

If you are in or near northern New Mexico:

CELEBRANDO LAS ACEQUIAS:
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

JUNE 11th – 13^th, 2010

Embudo Mission

Dixon, New Mexico

Celebrating the water, land, food, and people of the acequias.

Free and open to the public.

Friday, June 11, 2010

7:00 pm OPENING PRESENTATION: THINKING LIKE A WATERSHED

Jack Loeffler

8:00 pm FILM SCREENING: GENETIC CHILI

Chris Dudley

EXHIBITION: EL OJO DEL EMBUDO

Geraldine Forbes and Tim Castillo,
UNM School of Architecture and Planning,

Saturday, June 12

8:30 am REGISTRATION

9:30 am STATE AND ACEQUIA PARTNERSHIP

Estevan Lopez, Chairman

Interstate Stream Commission

10:30 am CELEBRATING A TEACHING LANDSCAPE

Hadley + Peter Arnold, co-directors

Arid Lands Institute, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA

11:30 am WATER AND SACRED LANDSCAPE IN NEW MEXICO

Dr. Sylvia Rodriguez, University of New Mexico

12:30 pm LUNCH

1:30 pm ACEQUIA LANDSCAPE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

Arnie Valdez, Planner, Santa Fe County

2:30 pm NATIVE FOODS

Dr. Gary Nabhan, University of Arizona Southwest Center

3:30 pm FEMALE VOICES IN THE FOOD POLICY DEBATE

Moderator: Dr. Marcia Brenden

Panelists: Lucia Sanchez, Norma Navarro, and Isaura Andaluz

4:30 pm DREAMING NEW MEXICO

Arty Mangan, Food and Farming Director, Bioneers

5:30 pm CENA, DINNER

6:30 pm PRESENTATIONS:

Mayordomo and Farmer of the Year

7:00pm MUSICA

Locals: Los Coyotes de CaÒoncito

From El Rito: Cipriano Vigil

From Albuquerque: Chuy Martinez y los Trinos

Sunday, June 13

12:00 pm Earthworks Institute

12:30 pm ARROYO RESTORATION WORKSHOP

Bill Zeedyk and Van Clothier

Let the Water Do The Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels.

ORGANIZERS

Event Director:

Estevan Arellano, farmer, writer, historian

Embudo, NM

estevan_2002@yahoo.com

Sponsor:

ARIDLANDSINSTITUTE

@ Woodbury University

Design Innovation at the Nexus of Water, Energy, and Climate Change.

7500 Glenoaks Boulevard

Burbank, CA 91510

818. 394 3335

The mission of the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University is to train designers and citizens to be resourceful and inventive in the face of water scarcity and hyrdologic variability brought on by climate change. ALI offers undergraduate and graduate educational opportunities; design advisory services; research; and public programs. aridlands.woodbury.edu

The Arid Lands Institute @ Woodbury University is supported by funding under Grant Number HSIAC-09-CA-39 with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of University Partnerships.

Co-sponsored by:

Embudo Valley Library

Cuatro Puertas

New Mexico Acequia Institute

The Acequia Institute

Earthworks Institute

Vivac Winery

La Chiripada Winery

McCune Foundation

LINKS

aridlands.woodbury.edu

bioneers.org

c4puertas.org

earthworksinstitute.org

embudovalleylibrary.org

lachiripada.com

ose.state.nm.us/isc_index.html

mccune.org

garynabhan.com
lasacequias.org

rio-arriba.org

acequiainstitute.org

santafecounty.org/growth_management

vivacwinery.com

LAND/ART Book Release Party: June 16, 5:30 - 7:30pm

Please join Radius Books & 516 ARTS on Wednesday, June 16, 5:30 - 7:30pm to celebrate the release of the culminating book "LAND/ART New Mexico" published by Radius Books.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: THIRD COAST ATLAS

image: Green Area designates watershed of the great lakes. All rivers and streams within this area drain into the Great Lakes. Water flows from the lakes into the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River. For the purposes of this publication, we will consider the St. Lawrence River and Seaway, Finger Lakes Region of New York, Headwaters of the region above Lake Nipigon, as well as the various canal and hydrological management systems associated with the Great Lakes as sufficiently relevant to warrant inclusion in the region.

3rd Coast Atlas is seeking submissions.

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criteria

Submissions will be evaluated by the editors (and where necessary an independent editorial board) depending upon three criteria:

1.Quality of original intellectual and representational content and its contribution to the overall collection.

2.Relevance to sites and or subjects within the Great Lakes Drainage Basin. See map above and caption for details on geographic limits.

3.Relevance to the categories outlined for the publication.

More information about the project and submissions can be found here: www.3rdcoastatlas.com.

3rd Coast Atlas is a platform for research and design initiatives that explore the urbanization, landscape, infrastructure and ecology of the Great Lakes Basin and Great Lakes Megaregion. 3CA was initiated in 2009 by Clare Lyster, University of Illinois, Chicago; Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, and Mason White, University of Toronto.