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10 Days of Climate Action â€“ Call for Artists

August 10, 2012Cultura21Audience Members, Berlin Germany, Cash Prizes, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Issues, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Francesca, Global Summit, Initiative, Kagan, Kajsa, Knau, Koefoed, Late September, Members, Mexico City, Musicians, New York City, New Yorkers, Oleg, Paris France, Public Settings, Rana, Sacha, Vitality

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10 Days of Climate Action is an initiative of the Human Impacts InstituteÂ to bring together artists, musicians and performers to install climate-inspired public works throughout New York City. In an effort to inspire New Yorkers to think more critically about our actions and their impacts, each day of 10 Days of Climate Action will present a climate theme and creatively engage the public in positive action around issues of climate change.

TheyÂ´re lookingÂ forward to submissions that push audience members to â€œthink outside the boxâ€, submissions from artists who intend to attack current and pressing climate issues through the creation of their work for a public setting and encourage them to find diverse sites and unique public settings.Â Each selected artist will be assigned a specific date to showcase their work during a ten day period in late September (21st-29th), as a part of the 4th Climate Week NYC, the annual global summit that takes place in New York City aiming to mobilize climate action.

Cash Prizes: 1st place â€“ $500; 2nd place â€“ $300; and 3rd place â€“ $200

Submittal Deadline: 10am, Monday, August 13th, 2012

For more information, please visit http://www.humanimpactsinstitute.org/

IMAGINE 2020: Summer LAB. Art, climate change and sustainable development

August 8, 2012Cultura21Advocates, Artists, Berlin Germany, Climate Changes, Concrete Project, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Disciplines, Effects Of Climate Change, Francesca, Future Development, Imagine, International Artists, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Montpellier France, Oleg, Paris France, Professional Experiences, Project Proposal, Rana, Sacha, Sustainable Development, Torres Vedras Portugal, Vitality

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IMAGINE 2020, Art and Climate Change, was created to increase awareness about the causes and effects of climate change and advocates changes to the cultural sector and society in genral. One of the network activities is the Summer Lab, in this event they bring together artists and professionals from diverse disciplines. The first edition took place in Montpellier, France, where 35 artists and scientists from all over Europe came together over 4 days.

This year, the Summer Lab is taking place in Torres Vedras (Portugal), from September 5th to 9th, 2012. In its 2nd edition, international artists, scientists and entrepreneurs will interact and share their creative and professional experiences during the discussion and development of a concrete project proposal that shares a vision for a low carbon future development of communities.

For more information, please visitÂ http://www.imagine2020.eu/

Sustainia100 â€“ 100 sustainable solutions

August 7, 2012Cultura21Berlin Germany, Collaborative Effort, Collaborative Platform, Consortium, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Environmental Sustainability, Food Fashion, Francesca, Global Companies, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Leading Companies, Mexico City, Monday Morning, Oleg, Paris France, Practice Knowledge, Px, Rana, Sacha, Scandinavian, Six Continents, Smart Buildings, Solar Cooling, Solar Power, Solution Benefits, Sustainable Fashion, Sustainable Future, Sustainable Solutions, Venture Capitalist, Vitality, Water Cooling

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Sustainia is a consortium of partners representing civil society, businesses and experts. The concept of â€œSustainiaâ€ is developed by the Scandinavian think tank Monday Morning in a collaborative effort with global companies and foundations.

It is a concept for communicating a sustainable future based on concrete and tangible know-how and technologies â€“ a global collaborative platform for building a model and vision for a sustainable future. The model of Sustainia represents best practice, knowledge and technologies that already exist. It is inspired and designed by world leading companies, institutions and experts.

Sustainia100 was launched atÂ Rio+20, in the first edition, they guide you through solutions from 56 countries on six continents. From solar power in Sudan, to sustainable fashion in Switzerland; from water-cooling in Canada to solar-cooling in Singapore; from buses in Brazil, to smart buildings in Sydney.

The solutions they present have been organizedÂ into sections for the citizen; the CEO; the advocate; the engineer; the venture capitalist; and the politician. They also clearly say which sector (buildings, food, fashion, etc.) each solution impacts, and how each solution benefits economic, social, and environmental sustainability.

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Musâ€™Art Cameroon seeks to twin with arts institution

August 6, 2012Cultura21Art Director, Art Forms, Art Gallery, Arts And Crafts, Arts Institution, Bamboo Work, Berlin Germany, Boys And Girls, Cameroun, Carvers, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Cultural Heritage, Email Administration, Fight Unemployment, Francesca, Grass Fields, Heritage Gallery, Kagan, Kajsa, Kanjo, Koefoed, Mexico City, Musa, Nso, Oleg, Paris France, Precious Objects, Rana, Regional Artists, Renown, Sacha, Traditional Caps, Vitality, Wood Carvings

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Since its creation in 1996 Musa Heritage Gallery (shortened Musâ€™Art), named in memory of Nsoâ€™ carvers Daniel Kanjo Musa and his elder son John Yuniwo Musa, has been active in propagating the Nsoâ€™ cultural heritage.

This cultural initiative by the Musa family opened her doors to the public on 18th December, 1996. Musâ€™Art Gallery has a collection of over 400 objects, most of which were created between 1970 and 2000. These varied and diverse objects range from Bamboo work to Wood Carvings, Basketry to Pottery. The museum continues to acquire contemporary Cameroonian arts and crafts while maintaining a major focus on the Western Grass-fields region.

Musâ€™Art Gallery was created in part as to preserve in response to the loss of these precious objects, so the Art of the past is not lost to the region. Its mission is to support the arts and crafts of the Western Grass-fields and to highlight the excellence and diversity of regional artists, past and present, so these may become known nationally and internationally.

The art of Nsoâ€™ traditional wood sculpturing is fast disappearing. Most Nsoâ€™ renown carvers have died. Youngsters are unwilling to learn the art. Musâ€™Art Gallery is interested in a rebirth of Nsoâ€™traditional wood sculpturing as well as other traditional art forms such as weaving, basketry, bamboo work, knitting of traditional caps and other gadgets with raffia leaves or straw. In fact the arts and crafts industry in Nsoâ€™ if revamped can create a lot of jobs for young boys and girls, contribute to economic growth and fight unemployment.

The Musâ€™Art Gallery in Kumbo, Cameroun, is seeking to twin with a museum, gallery or other arts institution abroad, in order to open the door to new ideas, collaboration and joint programmes that will allow both partners to evolve.

Interested museums or art-based organisations may contact Peter Musa, Musâ€™Art Director. Email: administration [at] musartgallery [dot] org

Phone: +237 7937 2652

Address: Bamfem Qtr, P.O Box 21, Kumbo, North West region, Cameroun.

For more information about the museum, please visit http://musartgallery.blogspot.fr/

Video Vortex #9 â€“ Re:assemblies of Video

August 4, 2012Cultura2131 August, Assemblages, Berlin Germany, Contextual Analysis, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Curators, Frames Users, Francesca, Hypermedia, Image Lab, Incubator, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Logics, Mexico City, Money Flows, Moving Image, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Server Farms, Social Realities, Theorists, Ups, Video Culture, Video Makers, Video Vortex, Vitality, Vortex, Vortex 9

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Video Vortex #9, Re:assemblies of Video, is conceived and hosted by the Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab of the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University LÃ¼neburg, Germany. The conference will be held from February 28 until March 2, 2013. The call for contribution is open until 31 August 2012.

Online video vortices such as Youtube, are assemblages of assemblages: its infrastructure and spheres of use and production again consist of assemblages. The video sphere today is a mesh of different types of elements; we have databases, screens, interfaces, protocols and server farms. Comments, tags, lists and channels, cameras, producers, frames, users and audiences. Last, but not least, money flows, broadcasters, advertisers, property rights, eyeballs and statistics, all add to, and operate in multiple assemblages.

Currently there are new configurations of components in video culture, interacting in new ways and with loose forms of influence. VideoVortex #9 proposes that now is a time to re-engage with a structural and contextual analysis of online video culture.

The Video Vortex encourage critics, theorists, artists, programmers and video makers to look at:

1.)â€¦ assemblages of different videos, graphics and texts, be it in material or with a view to new environments of authoring or curation. Such an approach re-poses the question of interactive multi- and hypermedia in the age of html-5, Popcorn, Apps and the likes.
2.)â€¦ assemblages of content, interfaces and infrastructures, as found in platforms, with their changing forms and logics of circulation, and to scrutinize media-â€˜flowsâ€™, â€˜livenessâ€™, â€˜channelsâ€™, â€˜archivesâ€™, â€˜listsâ€™, and producing â€˜dissolving originalsâ€™ and new forms of mash-ups.
3.)â€¦ socio-cultural assemblages of producers, owners, curators and perceptive â€˜audiencesâ€™. The conditions and social realities of video- and TV-production, issues of copyright and re-organization of â€˜imaginaryâ€™ capital evoke questions as to what extent technology, standards and protocols â€“ and their symbolisms â€“ are taking over the role of what before has been ascribed to â€˜cultureâ€™.
4.)â€¦ assemblages contributing to ruptures and revolts: Indeed â€žthe whole world is watchingâ€œ different real or so-called â€˜revolutionsâ€™: social upheavals are transmitted via video. What does it mean to be an â€˜observerâ€™ (individually, socially or scientifically), a â€˜participantâ€™ or a â€˜witnessâ€™? Questions of relevance, media positioning and â€˜real virtualityâ€™ are are gaining new urgency.

If you want to know more about it, you can read the Video Vortex_Call_flyer here.

â€œIDâ€ographs!

August 2, 2012Cultura21Art Unit, Berlin Germany, China, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Drawing, Francesca, High School Students, Hub, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Meaningful Symbol, Mexico City, New Ways, Oleg, Paris France, Px, Rana, Sacha, Tag Art, Visit Art, Vitality, Workshop Series

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â€œIDâ€ographs is a drawing activity in which you create your own personally meaningful symbol.

It is a publication of ARTSpring, a China-based curatorial hub that brings art practitioners together with organizations that are searching for new ways of carrying out their activities and connecting with people. IDographs was designed as part of an ongoing workshop series held with a group of university and high-school students in Shanghai.

For more information about ARTSpring programs and publications, please visit art-spring.org

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Land Art Generator Initiative

August 1, 2012Cultura2128th August, Berlin Germany, Clean Energy, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Design Competition, Francesca, Free Copies, Initiative, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Land Art, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Renewable Energy Technologies, Sacha, Staten Island Ny, Vitality

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Saturday 28th August 2012. Staten Island, NY.

LAGI invites the general public to join them for an anonymous preview of the submissions to the 2012 LAGI NYC design competition for Freshkills Park. They will also be providing free copies ofÂ the new version of A Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies, a book that details all of the different methods by which clean energy can be safely harnessed from nature.

For more information and to download the book, please visit www.landartgenerator.org

Sonidos de la Tierra â€“ Community and social development through music

July 18, 2012Cultura21Aim, Alliances, Avina Foundation, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Countryside, Cozzolino, Earth, Francesca, Garbage, Good Citizens, Groupings, International Institutions, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Music Schools, Musical Education, New Economy, Oleg, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Recycled Instruments, Sacha, Scarce Resources, Vitality

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Sonidos de la Tierra (Sounds from the Earth) is a project for children and young, created by Luis SzarÃ¡n,through the formation of music schools, musical groupings and cultural associations, it facilitates the shortcut to the musical education to more than 3.000 participants of scarce resources, in communities of the Paraguayan countryside.

Sonidos de la Tierra, is based on the concept of â€œeducation through artsâ€ and began in 2002 in 18 towns, with support from the AVINA Foundation. Today, with alliances with more than 100 other local, national and international institutions, both public and private, the program reaches over 72 communities throughout Paraguay.

In Cateura, one of the many communities where Sonidos de la Tierra has music schools, started a project whose aim is to build musical instruments out of garbage, this city is one of the poorest in Paraguay, and a great amount of garbage is sent daily there.Â People who work in this project say that they arenÂ´t â€œlooking for good musicians, but for good citizensâ€. Last month, the Recycled Instruments Orchestra from Cateura performed at the Entreperneurship Forum in the New Economy during the Rio+20 summit.

To know more about the project, you can visit http://www.sonidosdelatierra.org.py/

Bolivian Animated Film â€œAbuela Grilloâ€ Highlights Water Issues

July 17, 2012Cultura21Animated Film, Animation Workshop, Animators, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Environmental Exploitation, Francesca, Government Corruption, Hugo Banzer, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Latin American, Lowlands, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Peaceful Protests, President Hugo Banzer, Privatization Legislation, Raincloud, Rana, Sacha, Short Film, Urban Landscapes, Vitality, Water Issues, Water Politics, Water Privatization, Water Wars

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Abuela Grillo, an adorable â€“ though equally tear-jerking â€“ animated short-film, calls attention to Boliviaâ€™s fraught history with water privatization.

The film is a collaboration between Bolivian animators and the Animation Workshop of Denmark. The Abuela Grillo character is based on a myth from the Bolivian lowlands, but the film tells the story of a historic moment in Bolivian water politics.

Water issues reached a boiling point in 2000 after water privatization legislation led to a significant spike in prices for Bolivian citizens. Demonstrations rocked Cochabamba in what is also known as the Cochabamba Water Wars. Though they began as peaceful protests, demonstrations quickly grew violent, leading to dozens of civilian and police injuries and casualties. Then President Hugo Banzer was forced to resign.

This animated film takes you on journey with Abuela Grillo (Grandmother Grasshopper), who walks through rural and urban landscapes with a raincloud constantly looming over her shoulder. She encounters various obstacles as the film weaves a sad â€“ and deeply symbolic â€“ tale of environmental exploitation and government corruption.

Reposted from the Center for Latin American and Caribean Studies at NYU blog.

SIdeways : Artistic laboratory along slow paths

July 15, 2012Cultura21Acceleration, Activism, Backroads, Berlin Germany, Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Donkey, Festival Weekends, Francesca, International Group, Interstitial Space, Kagan, Kajsa, Kilometres, Knots, Koefoed, Margins, Mexico City, Oleg, Open Space, Paris France, Passages, Rana, Ribbon Development, Sacha, Sideline, Sidetracks, Slowness, Symposia, Terra Incognita, Vitality, Zutendaal

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33 projects in open space, a journey of 334 kilometres, 16 walking days, 5 festival weekends, 2 symposia and 1 multimedia donkey! 17 August â€“ 17 September 2012, Belgium

Sideways is an itinerant festival for contemporary arts and cultural research. In times of acceleration and hypermobility, this nomadic initiative follows a web of slow paths. Artists and public explore different sidetracks in the Belgian landscape: footpaths, alleys, backroads and shortcuts. Behind the ribbon development and in the margins of the ubiquitous car infrastructure, a terra incognita appears; a fluid interstitial space of passages, tracks and stories. From this sideline, the Sideways exploration unfolds, focusing on being on the go, slowness and creation, arts and ecology, im/mobility and activism, spatial un/planning and landscape.

Both in form and content, Sideways engages into an experiment: a 4 week walking journey through Belgium, from west to east, undertaken by the audience as well as an international group of artists. An expedition without a predetermined destination, with room for detours and encounters, mapped and documented via the DonkeyXote multimedia donkey. Different lines of movements are entwined into knots of activity during 5 consecutive festival weekends in Menen (19/8), Herzele (25-26/8), Brussels (1-2/9), Turnhout (8-9/9) and Zutendaal (15-16/9).

For those who are interested, you can read the Catalogue and this Article. And you can visit the Sideways Website.

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