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Eco sapiens

Eco sapiens

by Intercreate Team
All the Latest
Extinction or adaptation? Evolution or Revolution? What are we facing? The complexity and urgency of the crises of today calls for us to engage together in new ways. Deep shifts in our consciousness may be required for long-term cultural changes to occur.
10/08/2009 09:31

SCANZ 2009 recollections

by grant corbishley
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories, Symposium 2009: Interconnections
Grant Corbishley, a senior lecturer and coordinator of the Collaborative Projects courses at WelTec in Wellington, shares his thoughts on the last few days of the residency, and the symposium which followed.
04/13/2009 12:12

Exhibition – atmos: weather as media

Creativity & Contexts
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.
03/26/2009 10:05

Techno-utopianism: computers and a new world

Creativity & Contexts
“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.
03/26/2009 10:04

Nam June Paik: mercurial global guru

Creativity & Contexts
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.
03/26/2009 10:04

Artist Discussion – Andrea Polli

Creativity & Contexts
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.
03/26/2009 10:04

Artist Bio – Andrea Polli

Creativity & Contexts
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.
03/26/2009 10:04

Cities

Creativity & Contexts
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.
03/26/2009 10:04

Poroporoaki

by grant corbishley
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
A summary of the poroporaki held at the end of the SCANZ symposium.
02/24/2009 16:02

Waitangi Day Picnic at Parihaka 12-2pm

by Alex Monteith, Danny Butt, Natalie Robertson
02/05/2009 17:32

Tissage_Métissage // Weaving_Mixing

by jacques sirot
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
The children of Maui and Kupe, of Prometheus and Pytheas, outwitting all odds to face the greatest challenge: that of assimilating another person’s culture while preserving their own identities, of overcoming distrust to build a shared future.
02/05/2009 09:17

Taranaki Platform Ecologies

by Andrew Paterson
Education for Sustainability, Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
Andrew Gryf Paterson’s project ‘Taranaki Platform Ecologies’ responds to and sets
 out to nourish, the online platforms surrounding Puke Ariki, by exploring,
 documenting and bridging online/offline aspects of the former wiki, and soon
 to be kete.
01/31/2009 23:59
architecture & complexity: systems architecture

architecture & complexity: systems architecture

Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
An interdisciplinary seminar and one-day workshop exploring current issues in Systems Architecture methodologies, which is the study of complexity within the built environment. Enabling a convergence of the nano-bio-info-cogno technologies and macroscaling of information and materials.
01/31/2009 20:13

Curatorial Workshop

by sarah cook
Symposium 2009: Interconnections
On Friday February 6, Sarah Cook from CRUMB will lead an invite-only New Media Art Curatorial Workshop at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. Information will be forthcoming. http://www.crumbweb.org
01/31/2009 20:12

Walking art and a short introduction

by Brett Stalbaum
Education for Sustainability
Some notes on the the history of walking art and the kinds of things I am interested in relative to walking art for participants in the 60 Springs project...
01/31/2009 13:20

60 Springs Schedule

by Trudy Lane, Ian Clothier, Brett Stalbaum, Nina Czegledy, Andrew Paterson
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
A schedule for the first week of SCANZ, giving times when 60 Springs projects will take place.
01/27/2009 17:08

Raranga Tangata: The Weaving Together of People

by sally jane norman
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories, Symposium 2009: Interconnections
Raranga Tangata: the weaving together of people. This Polynesian expression, used to designate the Internet, is one of many powerful poetic testimonies to the living culture of the Maori people of Aotearoa – New Zealand. Polynesian cosmogony vividly shows how a collectively shaped and transmitted narrative can offer cognitive handles to those seeking meaning amidst the chaos of complex worlds.
01/27/2009 08:48

Kupenga, Knots, Haveknots

by sally jane norman
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories, Symposium 2009: Interconnections
A paper by Sally Jane Norman, reflecting on maori culture and the relationships it has to the intertwinedness of networks.
01/27/2009 08:48

stringer

by Melinda Rackham
Residency 2009: Projects & Stories
Stringer is the inobtusive reflection through observation, images and discussion with participants, of the connections created through events such as SCANZ. Here Melinda uses the multifaceted connecting metaphor of string.. something which binds, yet is temporary, flexible and easily accessible.
01/25/2009 13:02

Ka muhe'e, he i'a hololua: Kanaka Maoli art and the eluding of globalization in Hawaii

Symposium 2009: Interconnections
My thesis in the paper makes a connection with ancient knowledge to form an approach for the contemporary context.
01/20/2009 11:19
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Intercreate.org is a project based research centre which consists of an international network of people interested in interdisciplinary creativity. Project foci include interdisciplinary projects, education initiatives and residencies. Intercreate is a not-for-profit trust that is registered with the Charities Commmission of New Zealand.




About SCANZ
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art and technology event and involves a symposium, artist residency, and public exhibition. It occurs every two years, and has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011 will be the third event.


SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. It seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required. Initial expressions of interest are due 21 November, 2009. Please see here for more details.

SCANZ 2009 international participants included Nina Czegledy, Brett Stalbaum, Sally Jane Norman, Jacques Sirot, Sarah Cook, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Dan Torop, Melinda Rackham and Dominic Smith of The Polytechnic. Participants based in New Zealand included Lisa Reihana, Stella Brennan, Sean Kerr, Rachel Rakena, Natalie Robertson, Danny Butt, Herman Pi’ikea Clarke, Alex Monteith, Naomi Lamb, Caro McCaw, Jon Bywater, Julian Priest (UK/NZ) and many others.

Occurring along side the 2009 residency was a two day symposium (February 7 and 8), presentation evening & exhibition (opened February 7), and curatorial workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

Intercreate.org gratefully acknowledges the support and partnerships of:

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Creative New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery


Puke Ariki
Puke Ariki


Shell New Zealand
Shell New Zealand
Sustainability Fund, 60 Springs


Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki
Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT)


TSB Community Trust
TSB Community Trust


and...
Phosphor Essence Ltd.


 

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