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Dirk Fleischmann: myforestfarm

What happens when real life interrupts your fantasy life? Artist Dirk Fleischmann was an active user of the virtual world Second Life when his concerns about the impact of his presence there led him to establish a real-life farm project in the Phillippines. Out of that experience, the RSA Arts & Ecology Centrecommissioned Fleischmann to make a piece of work would address the online the community. View Feature

Events

Feb 25 | Water Culture Forum

One of four forums organised in conjunction with the current CCANW exhibition Art, Ecology and the Economy this forum explores ways in which the arts can encourage new visitors to the countryside, focusing on cultural activity associated with the watercourses of Dartmoor and other parts of the UK.

May 28 - 30 | Uncivilisation

The Dark Mountain Project believe society will be entering a period of massive disruptions. A weekend festival of "Uncivilisation" features discussion by George Monbiot, Alastair McIntosh and Tom Hogdkinson and music from Chris Wood and others.

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Press Releases

April 29 2009 | New A&E poetry commission

Poets Melanie Challenger and John Kinsella are creating a new online poetry work for the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre based on their decision to abandon long-haul flying for ethical reasons.

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A&E | EVENTS TIMELINE

A complete list of all RSA Arts & Ecology's talks and events from 2005 to date.

RSA Arts & Ecology Centre timeline

Interactive timeline of the work of the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre 2005-present.

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Latest Blog Posts

Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project. Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge. It’s a great project. [...]

On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for �150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach. The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change.�Artist�Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]

Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too: “An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by�Pete Dungey, a�Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.” On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: �”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]