http://www.intercreate.org/ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:05:04 GMT Stories on Creativity & Contexts from Intercreate.org http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-topic-atmos http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-topic-atmos Within the persistent hum of atmos, we are now also hearing the increasingly clear message of a shifting climate. atmos gathers artists working at the borders of science, technology and ecology. The exhibition presents a selection of international and New Zealand artists who incorporate aspects of the weather directly into their practices, drawing attention to the agency of unpredictable natural phenomena. These are artists working at the borders of science, technology and ecology: some use weather in their art-making process. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:05:04 GMT Creativity & Contexts http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-topic-techno http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-topic-techno “All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.” Toni Morrison ( Online NewsHour interview, Mar. 9, 1998) At some point networked computers made our lives better. But equally, it is worth questioning the role they play in the construction of our societies, our economies, our education and our culture. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:10 GMT Creativity & Contexts http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-review http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-review Can TV really connect the world? Paik’s vision of television was far from Orwell’s, rather than the tools of oppression Paik foresaw a global environment of telethons, reality TV, and artistic experimentation. His was a utopian dream of the coming together of the technosocial environment. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:10 GMT Creativity & Contexts http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-review4 http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-review4 Why is artwork concerned with ecological issues often characterised as didactic or as ‘jumping on the band wagon’?Andrea Polli is an artist who is motivated by her strong ecological convictions as well as her imaginative exploration of technology’s potential rather than its limits. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:10 GMT Creativity & Contexts http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-bio http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artist-bio Andrea Polli has years of experience collaborating with environmental scientists. Andrea refutes the idea that technology should be left to the scientists and engineers. Her work develops a cultural impact, as a way to meet the pressing challenge of climate change. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:10 GMT Creativity & Contexts http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artwork http://www.intercreate.org/view/dmap-artwork In Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino takes us on a fantastic journey through a series of short and unconnected narratives — “Cities and memory”, “Cities and desire”, “Cities and signs”, … In Alex Monteith’s vigilant extraction of everything save the nouns from Calvino’s text, leaving only the naming, she has isolated the conflicting energy that sits under the surface of the original text. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:04:10 GMT Creativity & Contexts