Hollywood Fringe Sustainable Production Award Announced

LOS ANGELES – The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) awarded the first CSPA Fringe Award for Sustainable Production to Presque Pret a Porter, produced by Dreams by Machine on Sunday night at the Hollywood Fringe Festival Awards Ceremony. The award was designed to reward ecologically sustainable practice in the production of a [...]

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts to Present Award for Sustainable Production at Hollywood and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts (CSPA) announces the inaugural Fringe Festival Award for Sustainable Production, debuting at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 17th – 27th. The CSPA Fringe Festival Award for Sustainable Production is designed to reward ecologically sustainable practice in the production of a fringe show. The winner will be announced [...]

The PlanetShifter.com Interview with Ian Garrett, Executive Director: The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Los Angeles | www.planetshifter.com

Where are you? In the present? In the future? See my lament for clues: Things only happen here to make what happens next. Is LinkedIn a viable artistic community in your opinion? How would you improve it? I don’t think so, and I don’t think i wish it to be. I don’t know if LinkedIn represents [...]

Inhabitat Interview – Ian Garrett Reports on COP15 and the Arts #COP15

Moe Beitiks of Inhabitat (amongst other things) conducted an email interview with CSPA Executive Director, Ian Garrett (Me). You can see the whole things here: INTERVIEW: Ian Garrett Reports on COP15 and the Arts | Inhabitat. Some Excerpts: INHABITAT: What were your cultural expectations for Copenhagen? GARRETT: At this point, I don’t know what my [...]

MAMMUT MAGAZINE #4 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// MAMMUT MAGAZINE #4 :: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// WORKING TITLE: Solastalgia What happens when the climate changes around you but you are still in the same location? The fourth issue of Mammut Magazine will investigate the effects of climate change on the human psyche, focusing on a new definition of sadness called “solastalgia.” Coined by [...]

CSPA December 09 Newsletter

On Friday we both head to Copenhagen for the New Life Copenhagen Festival, the arts festival surrounding COP15, which began on Monday. During our stay in Europe, we’ll also be checking in on Future Arcola and a project for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial. December will be a very exciting, if not a bit chilly, month. [...]

CSPA October 09 Newsletter

Newsletter #3 is here! The quarterly is on its way out the door as well. Weve got a couple of very important events coming up as well and I hope youll join us for them. For those in technical theater, were helping Showman Fabricators with their Green Day 2009 at this years LDI conference in [...]

CSPA September 09 Newsletter

We invite you to view our second newsletter. As you read this, we’re hard at work on compiling our first issue of the CSPA Quarterly, which we will be releasing at the end of the month. We’re also working on bulstering our Wiki, which hasa lot of great information, but there is so much more [...]

Video | Feral trade cafe: buying a narrative with your coffee.

Feral Trade Cafe, London from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo. A Flip camera video. It’s interesting to see how the best media art moved on from the idea of creating networks in the virtual world, to seeing how those networks could affect the real world. Early net communities were full of idealism; how far does that [...]

Mammut Reading – Ari Kletzky

[display_podcast] FROM ISSUE #2 SPRING 2009: LIVING WITH THE CITY As the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban centers, how we choose to interact, develop and live in these cities will only become more important. With a variety of perspectives but by no means comprehensive, we hope this issue offers new ideas, directions and [...]

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