The Pervasive Media Studio is a unique link between creative practice and leading edge research, pioneering new digital media through socially engaged experimental projects. Research programmes incl:
danah boyd, Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Fellow at Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Soci…
—1. The artist may construct the piece.
—2. The piece may be fabricated.
—3. The piece need not be built.
—Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.
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“…the key characteristic of a living network is that it continually
produces itself. The being and doing of [living systems] are
inseparable, and this is their specific mode of organisation.
Autopoiesis, or ‘self-making’, is a network patterns in which the
function of each component is to participate in the production
or transformation of other components in the network. In this
way, the network continually makes itself. It is produced by its
components and in turn produces those components”
2009 is the 6th edition of LeWeb, in Paris on dec 9th and 10th
Put the fun between your legs
The Bike Lock
Social practice arts draw on pedagogical as well as fine art and other creative traditions. PLATFORM explicitly draws on the work of Joseph Beuys in the notion of pedagogy as “a third of our practice”.
Since the 1960s notions of education have been transformed by social movements and civil rights activists who have pushed for a focus on learning rather than teaching. The resulting transition might be seen as coming down from the pulpit, the difference from shaking people until they believe to shaking people awake in order to ask them what they believe. At its best, creative practice can be a tool in this later approach, it can be the beginning of these conversations.
Climate issues have featured in
FACT’s Climate for Change (Liverpool),
ArtsAdmin’s Two Degrees (London),
Barbican’s Radical Nature (London),
and the Royal Academy’s forthcoming
Earth: Art of a changing world
(London) to name but a few. The
RSA’s Arts & Ecology (2005), Tipping
Point (2003), Cape Farewell (2001)
and the EU’s 2020 Network (2008)
are long-term programmes fostering
culture’s engagement with climate
change.
PDF: Over 25 events, installations, performances, actions, walks, courses, discussions and skills-sharing will build towards the moment of public departure to the protests at the contested COP 15 in Copenhagen. This isn’t art which merely describes the problems of climate justice. C Words investigates how everything from carbon offsets and transport, to racism and bank accounts play their part in the carbon web. How will culture be produced in a low energy future? Can we imagine our way from here to there?
Guardian video
The 100 Days exhibition at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol marks the countdown to the Copenhagen climate conference in December by hosting a series of exhibitions, performances and talks highlighting climate change, social justice and art and activism
