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Interview | Siân Ede

Facing the social crises brought on by climate change, should we be trying to encourage artists to produce "useful" work?RSA Arts & Ecology talks to the Director of Arts at the Gulbenkian Foundation about the role of the Arts & Ecology Centre, and about how the public perceives art in the 21st century. View Feature

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Julie's Bicycle | The carbon impacts of recorded music products in a time of transition

A new report by Julie's Bicycle looks into research on carbon impact of downloading and streaming recorded music and argues that we still don't know enough about what the real impacts of this new virtualised arts industry are.

COP 15 | Culture|Futures

Culture|Futures is an international collaboration between organisations and individuals concerned with shaping a cultural agenda to support the transition towards an Ecological Age. We are one of them. And we're pleased to announce the launch sympsosium taking place in Copenhagen this December, in the run up to COP15.

July 14 | The Dalston Mill

EXYZT's The Dalston Mill, part of Radical Nature, opens to the public on July 15 alongside a new installation of Agnes Denes' Wheatfield, A Confrontation

July 13 | Rock's "Industry Green" tools unveiled

As the summer festival season kicks off, music industry green team Julie's Bicycle unveil a new set of tools for rock festivals to audit and improve their carbon emissions.

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Features

Jaume Plensa | Dream

Slideshow:: The day Jaume Plensa's Dream was installed at the Sutton Manor Colliery. The sculpture will be part of the Big Art series starting on C4 on May 10.

Artists who grow communities

American artists have been working with productive garden initiatives in ways that change the ways we think about nature and community. William Shaw talked to artists Amy Franceschini, Fritz Haeg and Fallen Fruit for RSA Arts & Ecology. HIs research appeared this April in The Observer.

Nancy Adajania | The landscapes of where?

As curator of The landscapes of where exhibition in Mumbai (running until May 27) critic Nancy Adajania examines the idea of a post-bucolic world in which representing landscape becomes an ever more complex activity.

Interview | Leo Murray

In Wake Up, Freak Out, - then Get a GripPlane Stupid activist Leo Murray created an ingenous way of using stick-figure animation to explain complex climate system dynamics. Caleb Klaces interviews him for RSA Arts & Ecology.

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Coalition of the Willing: film-making, collaboration, activism
This is a brilliant initiative: a growing online activist movie created by an army of collaborators, who are animating a script by philosopher/activist Tim Rayner: Still from Coalition of the Willing: Back to the 60s by World Leaders The film is appearing online at coalitionofthewilling.org.uk. Rayner’s collaborator is the film maker Simon Robson aka Knife Party, who [...]

Streetlight Storm by Katie Paterson
“At any one time there are around 6,000 lightening storms happening across the world amounting to some 16 million storms each year.” … a delicious fact is culled from Pippa Irvine’s review of Paterson’s Street Light Storm installation on Deal Pier on FAD Fast Art News: Inspired by such dizzying statistics Paterson set about translating this natural [...]

The impossible hamster & RSAnimate: thoughts on nubs
Yesterday, the New Economics Foundation released this video to support their report about the irreconcilability of the idea of sustained economic growth with the idea of sustainability itself,� Growth Isn’t Possible. It’s made by Leo Murray, one of the makers of The Age of Stupid and the short film� Wake Up Freak Out. The Impossible Hamster [...]