“We can’t change ecological limits. We can’t alter human nature, But we can and do create and recreate the social world. Its norms are our norms. Its visions are our visions. Its structures and institutions shape and are shaped by those norms and visions. This is where transformation is needed.” - Tim Jackson, Social Scientist
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Our 2009-11 programme takes Media Art Ecologies as its focus stimulating practice and debate about ecological approaches to work at the intersection of art technology and environment. This runs in parallel with our regular programme which remains responsive to wide contemporary concerns and practices.
Many media art practices inherently share an ecological approach - an interest in the interrelation of technological and natural processes: beings and things, individuals and multitudes, matter and patterns. They have been developing for nearly half a century, but their effects become especially compelling in the context of contemporary ecological and economic crises. They engage imaginations toward a critical view of growth economics and patterns of consumption, inspiring audiences to generate alternative visions of sustainability and prosperity through creativity and collaboration. Through this programme of work we increase opportunities for art making and appreciation, critical debate, exchange and participation, in emerging ecological media art practices, and the theoretical, political and social contexts they engage; to engender shared visions of other possible worlds.
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Artworks, reviews, articles, interviews and essays by practitioners across a range of disciplines within the Furtherfield network reflect on media art ecologies across and between material, virtual and cultural domains. Hopping from action to reflection and back from the machinic to the bucolic, from life-hacking tactics to philosophical histories, coding, theory and getting organised.
MORE ABOUT what the Furtherfield Media Art Ecologies Programme will do
• Support and promote new work in ecological media arts through exhibitions, commissions and flightless international residencies.
• Stimulate debate through "rich networking" activities and publishing reviews, interviews and discussion online.
• Co-devise accessible workshops with distinct groups of people to explore and activate diverse perspectives and experience.
• Further develop the capacity for research, discovering ways to gather, synthesise and disseminate the knowledge that emerges through the programme to those beyond our immediate community.
• Develop the sustainability of our artistic activities in the context of economic and ecological crisis.
• Develop a participation and learning resource.
For more information contact Ruth Catlow.
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