Sesión #8 de la Cátedra “Balance Unbalance” en Arte y Clima: Redes / Networks

Cátedra
Sesión #8 de la Cátedra “Balance Unbalance” en Arte y Clima: Redes / Networks
Fecha del evento: 
Viernes, Mayo 20, 2022 - 11:00
Fecha fin del evento: 
Viernes, Mayo 20, 2022 - 13:00
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Solving the climate crisis is not a problem of science and technology, at least not exclusively. It is, above all, a cultural problem.
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https://youtu.be/79gnHtqdesc - https://www.facebook.com/utadeo.edu.co
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Knowledge networks, contacts, diversity in ways of thinking and understanding the world and life on our planet are essential to survive this moment of extreme fragility. Also, it is crucial to build agreements that could lead us to a coexistence where we will have the opportunity and the possibility of continuing to grow and improve as a civilization.

https://youtu.be/79gnHtqdesc

Invitados

    • Danielle Siembieda

      Is an Alter Eco-Artist and Culture Maker. Her mission is to empower communities by navigating complex systems that affect all of us. She has spent her career addressing the UNSDG’s with a focus on clean energy and responsible consumption & production through creative entrepreneurship and economy.  

      As an Alter Eco-Artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Siembieda works at the intersection of community, emerging technologies, and the environment. She is also an artist in residence at the University of Santa Cruz Genomics Institute(link is external), home of the Genome Browser through UCSC’s Arts Research Open Lab(link is external). Siembieda has an MFA in Digital Media Art at San Jose State University at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media(link is external), focusing on green technology and sustainable materials. Her social impact company,  Art Inspector: Saving the Earth by Changing art(link is external), founded in art, has received funding from Silicon Valley Energy Watch and working with the City of San Francisco Department of Environment to help artists work healthier and safer. She defines her practices as “Alter-Eco Art” bridging Eco-Art practice and New Media at the intersection of environment, technology, and community. She is also a member of the Ocean Memory Project(link is external), a collective of artists and scientists looking at what happens below water. Her work has been presented globally, including the 01SJ Biennial in the heart of Silicon Valley, the National Gallery in Copenhagen, and the Education Center of the National Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia

      In her recent role as Chief Creative Officer for the think tank Leonardo/ISAST she developed collaborative explorations through partnership-driven creative programs and initiatives. She leads Leonardo’s creative vision, including the Leonardo Residency Platform, brand and communications and special projects. She oversees Leonardo’s fast-growing LASER Network of cultural community leaders in over 50 cities worldwide, bridging the language, culture, and discipline divide. She also fosters global scientific and artistic literacy through the promotional leadership of Leonardo journal, which has become the leading peer-reviewed publication of 50 years in art, science, and technology research.

    • Olga Mink

      Obtained her MFA at the Sandberg Institute. Olga is currently affiliated as a researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences and works as curator and director for Baltan Laboratories and The Foundation Future of Work.  She is interested how art shapes tangible realities in times of profound global challenges. Her ambition to bridge interdisciplinary art with pressing societal challenges resulted in numerous artistic research trajectories involving artists, designers, scientists, public and private institutions, NGO’s and educational partners. As the director of Baltan Lab, she initiated Age of Wonderland, a four-year program to boost social innovation between the Global North and South; Economia -  a festival about economy, without the economists [on stage]. With Wiepko Oosterhuis, she co-edited the book Economia - Methods for Reclaiming Economy, published by Baltan Laboratories, and Co-emerging Economies: Radical perspectives on Post-anthropocentric Economies together with Reon Brand, published by Lecturis.

    • Rasa Smite

      Is an artist, network researcher and cultural innovator, working with science and emerging technologies since 90s. She is founding director of RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga, curator of its annual festivals, and a chief-editor of Acoustic Space – peer-reviewed publication series.

      She holds a PhD in sociology of culture and media (from Riga Stradins University, 2011), and MA in visual arts (from Arts Academy of Latvia, 2000). Currently she works as associate professor in New Media Art programme at Liepaja University. She is author of the books – “Creative Networks. In the Rear-View Mirror of Eastern European History”, published by Amsterdam Institute for Network Culture (2012), and “Talk to Me. Exploring Human-Plant Communication” (Published by RIXC, 2014). She is also author of numerous articles and co-editor of the Acoustic Space series issues. 

      In her artistic practice, since the mid-90s Rasa Smite works together with Raitis Smits, creating networked, visionary, and innovative artworks. Their pioneering internet art project – Xchange Net.Radio Network was awarded with PRIX Ars Electronica (1998). More recent artworks include: Talk to Me – human plant communication project, and Biotricity – artwork series exploring a poetics of green energy, which have been exhibited in KUMU museum in Tallinn (2011), Ars Electronica Center in Linz (2013-2014), Arsenals National Arts Museum in Riga (2014), National Science and Technology Museum in Stockholm (2015), and elsewhere. 

      Rasa Smite also has co-curated large scale exhibitions WAVES (Riga, 2006 / Dortmund 2008, together with Armin Medosch, Inke Arns) and FIELDS (Riga, 2014, together with Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch), as well as more recent exhibitions: Transformative Ecologies (Mons and Riga, 2015) and Data Drift (kim? Riga, 2015, together with Raitis Smits, Lev Manovich). Rasa Smite also has been active in building Baltic-Nordic and European collaboration platforms: she has co-founded Renewable Network (2009) and Renewable Futures – traveling art and science conference series (2015). She is lecturing extensively on creative networks and sustainability, ecology and contemporary media art, contemporaneity and networked/post-media art, and other topics.

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