Reinventing art through ecology.

1. February 14 Tuesday

Planning Introduction: Terms and ideas, multidisciplinary science, new technology, new perceptions of expressivity... Bibliography, the wiki as a creative notebook for making things. Your media, and working with field recordings. Overview of sessions #2-6, structure of the course, assignments. Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.

The Session U2:316

Themes: randomness and structure, bones nature taxidermy, anatomies and structures, collections of found objects, walking, sleeping, water!, dark ecology, music and the self-sustainable studio, working out ecological conditions, ending with the 3 ecologies

References

Félix Guattari: The Three Ecologies (1989)

Philip Ball: The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999), also available as Flow, Shapes, Branches. Also: Life's Matrix: A Biography of Water

Keller & Golley: The Philosophy of Ecology

Dark ecology: Timothy Morton: Ecology Without Nature, see also the Dutch project, inspired by Morton, with the same name: http://www.darkecology.net/

About water, see a project by City Mined: Pacco Test

Robert Smithson

Participants

GivanBela

radim

terezie

Petr Nápravník

AnnaT

Marketa Wagnerova

VojtaV

2. March 21 Tuesday

Introduction, and some ideas:
A little history of ecology and environmentalism till today.
Interwoven with A little ecological history of 20th century art till today.

EcologyTerminology

Why bring in media?

Let's discuss ecotechnology, ecology and ecology, ISEA 2012.

Collaborative writing, several different types:

The history of hypertext

HTML/HTTP and today (javascript, xml, html5, etc...)

wikiwiki and this dokuwiki: intro and syntax

piratepad

git or github

Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.

3. March 28 Tuesday

Ah let's go field recording. I can be at FAVU around 3pm. Please bring your favorite, borrowed or stolen recording gear. And fill out in your page above the theme you want us to record.

In between we can still talk about:
The world as it stands today: culture, economy, industry, art and science.
Fablabs, Maker spaces, and other DIY things in the world.

Let's discuss documenta 14
Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.

4. April 4 Tuesday

Networks. New music: sound art, radio art, installations, performances. What is music, composition, media, etc today? Making your own eco-lab: sonification. Let's do some field recordings, edit them, do something with it. Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.

5. April 11 Tuesday

The city and the countryside? moving into the real world. From city festivals to remote art spaces. Residencies.

Making your own eco-lab: sensors and what to do with data around you.

How to make art with less energy?

Why low voltage power technology? Why the sun and wind matter?

Introduction Arduino and Raspberry Pi, programs (like sonic pi), code, sensors, etc...

Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.

6. May 9 Tuesday

Wrapping up: overview. What is to come and what to do next? Opening up your own eco-lab to the rest of the world. Discussion, and critique. Share notes and thoughts.