Atmospheres of Protest Symposium
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art Noah Fischer and Maria Byck (Occupy Museums, New York) SPEAKERS: Noah Fischer and Maria Byck (Occupy Museums, New York), Matteo Pasquinelli and Wietske Maas […]
Category Archives: Conferences
Symposium: Rethinking Robert Smithson
Art and Ecology related symposium at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague on Friday 30 March: In many ways, the artistic debates prevalent in the 1970s are recurring […]
The Animal Gaze Returned
This should be good… Following the success of the first Animal Gaze symposium three years ago, London Metropolitan University presents The Animal Gaze Returned – a second symposium on contemporary […]
Conference on Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture
Here’s the link for the full programme of the Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture conference at UCL London on 8 October 2011, which is organised by Antennae, there are still […]
Animal Ecologies Symposium
ANIMAL ECOLOGIES IN VISUAL CULTURE 8th of October 2011 UCL, London The symposium proposes an exploration of artistic practices involved with animals and environments. In the recent re-surfacing of the […]
Post-Fordism in the Puszta
Last weekend’s symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art, the 5th annual collaboration between Translocal and the Dept of Environmental Science and Policy and Centre for Arts and Culture at Central […]
Sustainability and Contemporary Art
Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Art, Post-Fordism and Eco-Critique International Symposium at Central European University Budapest 19-20 March 2010 Ralo Mayer, Multiplex Fiction, 2008 This symposium focuses on the intersections between […]
Art, Post-Fordism and Eco-Critique
International Symposium at CEU Budapest 19-20 March 2010 The 2010 Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art brings together artists, philosophers, environmental scientists and activists to explore the conundrum of capitalism’s […]
Hard Realities and New Materiality Symposium
Since the last symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art held at CEU in February 2008, which took as its subject the Operaist dilemma of ‘Exit or Activism?’ and examined Paulo […]
Going Nuclear at the RSA
The recent symposium on Art and Radioactivity at the Royal Society of Arts proved an exception to the many generalised discussions around art and ecology, by focusing on the specific […]
Exit or Activism?
Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art: Exit or Activism? This symposium investigates the current state of thinking about sustainability in the light of the continuing mutations of post-Fordist global capitalism […]
Art in the Age of Global Warming
This lecture was given by Maja and Reuben Fowkes at the conference Europe Now, Europe Next organised by Culturebase.net and sought to bring a ecological dimension to the notion of […]
Sustainable Visions
Maja and Reuben Fowkes were invited by the organisers of the excellent Shifting Ground Conference in County Clare to curate a film screening dealing with issues of sustainability in a […]
International Symposium on Sustainability and Contemporary Art
This gathering of artists, theorists and environmentalists at Central European University Budapest in March 2006 was the first occasion on which issues of sustainability and contemporary art were tackled […]
