This change in knowledge has been reflected in contemporary art practice. MA Art & Environment, at University College Falmouth, encourages a focused engagement with ecological and environmental issues. Designed to give students the skills, expertise and confidence to operate as a professional artist in this critical area of practice, the course will also enable them to develop strategies and practices that use art as a cultural agent – as a tool for knowledge, understanding and change.
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 [...]
Arts
FACT: MyWar: Participation in an Age of War
Gallery S O: Hans Stofer 'Walk the line'
Exeter Phoenix: Sovay Berriman: Entertaining at the Dust Lounge
Frith Street Gallery: Jaki Irvine: Seven Folds in Time
Frith Street Gallery: Jaki Irivine: Seven Folds In Time
Maddox Arts: Vicente Grondona: Vegetable Man
Gallery Primo Alonso: Mob Remedies
Environment
The forest scheme that fails to protect trees
Charges against sushi chef who served whale
Solar PV failed in Germany and will fail here
Letters: Our goal education and a better life