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Toolkits of the Eco Sapiens
The ascendant human. We see ourselves as able to invent our way through any limits. Yet this dominant cultural perception has swept us to a brink of self-destruction. Should we survive current crises, without embedding integrated and systemic thinking, a calamitous repeat seems inevitable. How can the integrated thinking of creativity and the arts play a culture-shifting role? What are the creative, scientific and social toolkits that might nudge our perspectives towards a large-scale re-imag…
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Moving the Art Education Paradigm Towards a Technology / Art Synthesis
As a high school art teachers for the past 3 and a half decades, I have been moving more and more into both developing art curriculum that has a computer technology / media arts driven component as well as allowing my students to explore their own connections between traditional and experimental forms of artistic expression. My previous association with Ian Clothier (who is represented here at Intercreate.org), as a writer for art-themagazine.com, was somewhat instrumental in my moving in th…
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Workshops
In SCANZ 2006, one of the most fun things was doing the workshops. They were also an original underpinning of the ideas behind setting up SCANZ. All participants should feel free to propose and organise workshops of any kind during the residency. Possibly they could be organised through this site. I could set up a ‘workshops’ category, for people to post to. Would that be helpfu…
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Demystifying Technology
I would like to do a piece on Nam June Paik and the direct follow on through other artists whose workshops I have participated in—from Nam June to Tetsuo Kogawa’s mini-FM movement to Adam Hyde’s FLOSS Manuals and others.
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Comment on Techno-utopianism: computers and a new world (suggested by Trudy Lane)
Su I am so interested to learn of Samuel Butler having lived at a Canterbury sheep farm while writing Erewhon! Images of the sheep station would be great. (Just for an example idea!).
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SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a creative residency is to be held mid to late January 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. The symposium will be held at Owae Marae, and seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required.
The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens creative residency participants include Sue Page and Janine May, Jo Tito, Andrew Hornblow, Dhyana Beaumont, Lanfranco Aceti, DodoLab (Andrew Hunter with Lisa Hirmer), Karen Ingham, ÆLab (Gisèle Trudel with Stéphane Claude), Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Angelo Vermeulen, Justin Morgan, Jonah Marinovich, Nina Czegledy (our International Research Fellow) and Janine Randerson, Keith Armstrong and James Muller, Ramon Guardans. Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, Roger Malina and Erich Berger of Arsbioarctica will be involved in the hui, to be held at Owae marae. Julian Priest's Slow Flow project is also a partner project, and will immediately follow the SCANZ 2011 residency.
The dates for the events in and around the city of New Plymouth are:
- Symposium/Hui — 14th-16th of January, Owae Marae in Waitara.
- Creative Residency — 17th-30th of January, WITT Campus in New Plymouth.
- Workshops — Throughout city, schedule to come.
- Public Events — Throughout city, schedule to come. Will include events on the closing weekend.
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ)
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art, technology, culture and ecology event and involves a symposium, creative residency, and public events and exhibitions. Occurring bi-annually, it has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens will be the third event.
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Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
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