ARTS CATALYST PROGRAMME & OPPORTUNITIES
FORUM: WHO IS 'THE NEIGHBOUR' / WHAT IS THE NEIGHBOURHOOD?
BSL interpreted
Wed 25 March 2009, 6 - 8pm
P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1, UK
FREE. Booking highly recommended. Call +44 (0) 20 7375 3690 or email
admin@artscatalyst.org
Have the
techno-utopias of communal communication been supplanted by
technologies of paranoia,
voyeurism and stalking? This forum discusses issues raised by Ashok Sukumaran's The Neighbour. Ashok Sukumaran, Prof. David Garcia
(Dean, Chelsea College of Art & Design) and architect Prof. Murray Fraser
(University of Westminster).
Ashok Sukumaran
THE NEIGHBOUR
Until 9 April 2009
P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS, UK
Opening hours: Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am - 6pm, Thu to 8pm
Ashok Sukumaran's new installation The Neighbour, in the massive construction
halls underneath the University of Westminster, explores ideas of
leakages, negotiations and refusals in the modern electronic city. Two
mobile homes reflect
the complex relationship between
neighbours, each vehicle subtly stalking one another.
Last chance to see:
Nicolas Primat, Antony Hall, Kira O'Reilly, Ruth Maclennan, Beatriz da Costa, Rachel
Mayeri
Until Sun 22 March 2009
Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5HN, UK
Opening hours: Tue-Sat 11am - 6pm, Thu to 8pm, Sun 2pm-6pm
Can artists work with animals as equals? Interspecies uses artistic
strategies to stimulate dialogue about the way we view the relationship
between human and non-human animals.
Call for submissions:
An Arts Catalyst/Tate Britain conference
19 / 20 June 2009Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1, UK
The Arts Catalyst and Tate Britain
announce an international call for artists, scientists, social
scientists,
theorists, policy-makers and other disciplines, to present in Eye of
the Storm, a conference exploring scientific controversy from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Visit the conference website for more
information.
Deadline: 31 March 2009
Call for proposals:
Open Architecture Competition
HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol
(Slovenia), The Arts Catalyst (UK), LORNA (Iceland) and CTASC (Canada)
announce a call for proposals for a Mobile Media-Centric Habitation and
Work Unit, to be sited in the Arctic region. Proposals are invited from
architects, designers, engineers, artists, students, and engineering
teams. 9000 Euro in prize money available.
Deadline: 1 July 2009
Position vacant:
Applications for this post close Mon 30 March 2009
If you'd like to contribute to the work of The Arts
Catalyst, please visit our website for more
details.
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ASSOCIATED EVENTS
29 March - 2 April 2009
Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo and the Centro Cultural de Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Arts Catalyst Curator Rob La Frenais is taking part in PARALELO, a four day
project of workshops, symposia and live events supported and organised
by the
British Council in Brasil and the UK.
OTOLITH in
'A Long Time Between Suns'
Until 5 April 2009
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London, UK
Otolith 1, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, is showing as part of A Long Time Between Suns, the first solo presentation of The Otolith
Group's work in London.
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LISTINGS
Until 22 March 2009
Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain
View the nine prototypes developed during the project.
21 - 22 March 2009
Gunpowder Park, Lee Valley, UK
Artists Simon Faithfull, Pilot Publishing, Proboscis, and Rob Davis and Usman Haque explore the question
what is common space in
our 21st century multicultural society? The projects are on show
around the park.
Wednesday 25 March 2009, 6.30-9pm
The Castle, 44 Commercial Road, London, UK
Revisiting the question of 'the human' in the age of biopolitics.
Alastair Mackie
To Saturday 28 March
2009
David Roberts Foundation, 111 Great Titchfield St, London, UK
Mice skeletons, wasp's nests and a giant gorilla.
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe campus, Germany
Art & science collaboration between media artist Tim Otto Roth
& the KASCADE experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
3 - 30 March 2009
Gulbenkian Crossover Gallery, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
An exhibition of new work in photomedia by Annie Halliday
Until 12 April 2009
Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), California, USA
Exhibition exploring how scientific data can be experienced and translated into startling forms.
Until 18 April 2009
Exit Art, New York, USA
Exhibition features artists who are using bio- and media- technologies to investigate questions of life and
death. Includes Kathy High, Yuri Leiderman and Andrei
Silvestrov, Stelarc, Tissue Culture and Art Project (Oron Catts and
Ionat Zurr), Paul Vanouse,
Jennifer Willet, Adam Zaretsky
Until 26 April 2009
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Includes works by Gustav Metzger, Douglas Gordon and Olafur Eliasson
Until 3 May 2009
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Over 150 paintings, drawings, lithographs and rare documentary material.
Until 4 May 2009
Le Laboratoire, Paris, France
"...about the multilayered alterations that take place in human
perception when there is a drop in consciousness of ones self, or our
collective
vision."
Climate for Change
Until 31 May 2009
FACT, Liverpool, UK
A call-to-action for the environment.
Magnetic Movie
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Semiconductor
Until 31 May 2009
The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
Inspired by discussions with space scientists and recordings of magnetic field data, Semiconductor's film
reveals the
unseen physical reality at NASA's Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
Sat 21 March - Sun 7 June
Private View Wednesday 25 March 6pm - 8pm
Watermans Gallery, Brentford, UK
Film installations capturing Anne Brodie's experiences of living and working at the South Pole.
Until 28 June, 2009
Tucson Art Museum, Arizona, USA
57 artists engage with the destructive power of nature.
Expedition to the Total Eclipse
Until 6 July 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Finland
Exhibition detailing Capsula's cross-disciplinary expedition to
Siberia. Works by Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Mireia C. Saladrigues and Tommi
Taipale.
The Dream
Director
Currently touring UK museums and galleries
An art-science-engineering project by artist Luke Jerram. Venues include the ICA in London, FACT in Liverpool,
the De la Warr Pavilion in East Sussex and Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
25 March 2009
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, UK
Harold Varmus, Co-Chair of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in conversation with
Professor John Beddington and Sir Mark Walport.
26 March 2009, 7pm
Brunel University, London W6, UK
Professor Chris Jenks (Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University), Dr. William Brown, and Professor Dany Nobus.
1-4 April 2009
Charterhouse School, Surrey, UK
Exhibition, discussions, workshops, social events and the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards.
Rising Tide: The Arts and Ecological Ethics Conference
17, 18, and 19 April 2009
Presented by California College of the Arts
and Stanford University, USA
Articulating the connections between aesthetics and environmentalism. Free and open to the public
Public lecture - Two cultures: 50 years on
5 May 2009, 6.30pm
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, UK
Chaired by Melvyn Bragg, this free lecture considers C.P. Snow's famous
concept of the 'two cultures'- scientific and literary, from a
contemporary
perspective.
12-16 July 2009
Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual
Benasque, Pyrenees, Spain
The format of the symposium
gravitates around paired special lectures by an artist and a scientist
on their practice, followed by an open discussion exploring the nature
of the
relationship between their fields.
Tuscany, Italy
4-10 June 2009 - "Art, Science and the Sacred"
3-9
September 2009 - "New Science/New Paradigms"Places available on the above courses.
OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2009
International event organised
by ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology). Symposium,
exhibition, masterclass and public talk investigating collaborative art
and science practices and their relationship with the human body.
First Round Final
Call:
Deadline: 31 March 2009
Marseilles residencies exploring the human condition of the sciences, with the Mediterranean Institute for
Advanced Studies, France
Expressions of interest:
Deadline: 31 March 2009
SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Dialogue and debate
surrounding human inaction, intervention, responses and
responsibilities to the world at large. SymbioticA is currently calling
for expressions of
interest from practitioners from all artforms.
Open call to artists:
Deadline: 31 March 2009
1-5 October 2009
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
TINA is Australia's largest and most diverse media and arts festival.
Call for
Participants:
2 April 2009, 2.30 - 4.30pm, Central Library, The Triangle, Bournemouth, UK
3 April 2009, 11am - 1pm, Russell Cotes Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
Portable Radio is a series of conversations recorded all over the UK
looking at different perspectives of the visual arts, organised by SCAN
Submissions invited:
Deadline: 15 April 2009 with residencies starting 1 July 2009
Australian artists are invited to submit for The Connections Residency Program that will
provide $30,000 to
undertake residencies in non-arts situations; an Australia Council initiative managed by the Inter-Arts Office.
Call for exhibition proposals:
Anatomy in the Gallery
International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, US
Deadline: 17 April 2009.
An exhibition program showcasing medically-themed,
contemporary art exhibits; accepting proposals from artists and curators for its 2010 exhibition calendar
Last call for participation:
The Arts in the context of today's Darwinian Theory of
Evolution
International Colloquium, Marseille, France, Oct 22-24 2009
Banff, Alberta, Canada
The Banff New Media Institute Residency Program is currently accepting proposals.
Applications invited:
Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytech Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Accepting
applications for both its Artist in Residence and its Scholar and Researcher in Residence programs
Call for film and video
submissions:
SEEDS 2009
Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science
14 - 28 June 2009
Earthdance, Massachusetts, USA
Looking for films and videos of all lengths focused on ecology, social ecology, movement and/or science.
Announcing:
A new initiative for professional artists who wish to create new performance work in the context of climate
change.
Submissions due Monday 4 May 2009
Call for collaboration:
Ian Cook of the University of Exeter's Geography Department and artist
Kathryn Yusoff seek input from those working in the fields of art and
geography for a forthcoming seminar.
(dir. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, 2009)
Part screwball comedy about the Apocalypse, part call to arms, it
follows two hapless hucksters as they find out how funny the
unregulated free
market can actually be... and then find the fix.
Wiki Directory of Academic Art and Technology Programs
Including: Art and Science, Art and Technology, Computer Art,
Cyber-Art, Digital Art, Electronic Art, Interactive Art, Media Art, New
Media Art,
Science Art, Tech Art, Techno-Art, and Technology-based Art.
Coming Soon:
White Heat, Cold Logic
(MIT Press/Leonardo Books)
Edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert and Catherine
Mason, White Heat, Cold Logic tells the story of early British digital
and
computer artists -- and fills in a missing chapter in contemporary art
history.
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