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Phil Slade added a blog post

A Digital Challenge from the V & A "Decode" Exhibition

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/recodegallery "The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code. We are giving you the opport…

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Gloria Cohen is now a member of RSA Arts and Ecology

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Cafe Carbon @ Cafe Oto: Copenhagen Climate Stories at Cafe Oto

July 4, 2011 from 8pm to 11:45pm

In December 2009 artists, musicians and activists took their creativity to the streets of Copenhagen for the Climate Summit. The Gluts (Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman) performed their eco-electro** climate inspired musical Café Carbon…

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Cynthia Mykytyshyn and Anne-Marie Friedli joined RSA Arts and Ecology

March 3

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Cathy Fitzgerald left a comment for A. Traviss Corry

February 28

Phil Slade added a blog post

Talking Art - Kings Place, London. Mondays

http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/spoken-word/talking-art "Talking Art is a series of art related talks and lectures at Kings Place presented in partnership with Kings Place Gallery and Pangolin London. The talks are…

February 28

Rachael Tily is now a member of RSA Arts and Ecology

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Lucille Bonne updated their profile

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Laura, Lucy davis and Jonathan Middlemiss joined RSA Arts and Ecology

February 22

Lucy davis updated their profile photo

February 22

A. Traviss Corry NEW upgraded http://EarthArtists.org/ website live...

February 21

Cathy Fitzgerald is attending Phil Slade's event

"Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World" at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

March 19, 2010 at 6:30pm to March 20, 2010 at 5pm

"Tate and the Royal Society collaborate to bring together scientists and artists to imagine the social and psychological impacts of climate change. After a period of interdisciplinary dialogue, notions of adaptation, mitigation, and geo-engineering…

February 19

Phil Slade added a blog post

Apologies "Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World" event is in March not Feb.

Details http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20797.htm

February 18

jody boehnert might attend Phil Slade's event

"Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World" at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

February 19, 2010 at 6:30pm to February 20, 2010 at 5pm

February 16

Phil Slade added an event

"Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World" at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium

February 19, 2010 at 6:30pm to February 20, 2010 at 5pm

February 16

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Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop

Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project. Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge. It’s a great project. [...]

On houses that fall into the sea

Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for £150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach. The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change. Artist Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]

Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay

This via Thriving Too: “An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by Pete Dungey, a Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.” On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: ”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]

Land Art and changing perspectives

Filming Jan Dibbet’s 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, 1969 Jan Dibbets 6 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, Maasvlakte beach, 8 February 2009 A year ago this week as part of the Portscapes project, the artist Jan Dibbets had what he called a “second attempt” at his 1969 piece 12 Hours Tide Object [...]

Coalition of the Willing: film-making, collaboration, activism

This is a brilliant initiative: a growing online activist movie created by an army of collaborators, who are animating a script by philosopher/activist Tim Rayner: Still from Coalition of the Willing: Back to the 60s by World Leaders The film is appearing online at coalitionofthewilling.org.uk. Rayner’s collaborator is the film maker Simon Robson aka Knife Party, who [...]

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The RSA Arts & Ecology Centre is a London-based organisation that was set up in 2005 as a way of supporting, publicising, provoking and discussing the work of artists who are responding to environmental issues.

This is a place to post arts and ecology-related events, to discuss issues around ethics, practice and news.

Please help make this space a vibrant, active one by skaring knowledge, adding content, joining discussions and adding your events to the list.

Blog Posts

A Digital Challenge from the V & A "Decode" Exhibition

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/recodegallery

"The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code. We are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten's work and create your own original artwork. If we love your work it could even become the new Decode identity. You can d

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Posted by Phil Slade on March 9, 2010 at 10:03pm

Talking Art - Kings Place, London. Mondays

http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/spoken-word/talking-art

"Talking Art is a series of art related talks and lectures at Kings Place presented in partnership with Kings Place Gallery and Pangolin London. The talks are generally linked to exhibitions taking place at Kings Place and will feature artists and experts on a range of media.

Talks will take place on

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Posted by Phil Slade on February 28, 2010 at 1:55pm

Apologies "Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World" event is in March not Feb.

Details http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20797.htm

Posted by Phil Slade on February 18, 2010 at 6:55pm

Article on the first Culture and Climate Change conference - Culture|Futures

Hi all

I finally wrote an article on the first Culture and Climate Change
conference, as I was one of the few there from Ireland - it has ideas
that are pertinent to all, working in any art form

see article here http://ecoartnotebook.com/?p=894

Cathy Fitxgerald

Posted by Cathy Fitzgerald on February 15, 2010 at 1:04pm

Tate Modern Event "Rising to the Climate Challenge - Artists and Scientists Imagine Tomorrow's World"

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20797.htm

Friday 19 March 2010, 18.30–20.45
Saturday 20 March 2010, 10.30–17.00

"Tate and the Royal Society collaborate to bring together scientists and artists to imagine the social and psychological impacts of climate change.

After a period o

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Posted by Phil Slade on February 14, 2010 at 8:28pm — 2 Comments