PermaCultures A new series of residencies, talks, workshops and training opportunities exploring the convergence of art, media culture, technology and sustainability.
Open call for PermaCultures Residency #02 A portmanteau of ‘permanent agriculture’ as well as ‘permanent culture’, PermaCultures takes its name from a term coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren to describe their methods for sustainable agricultural design. From Mollison and Holmgren’s methods developed a general philosophy for sustainable design around the interconnection and relationships between differing areas or objects. It alludes to networked technologies through 'perma' (permalinks) prefix and has the aim of exploring the impact and sustainability of creative technological practices. Media technologies hold extensive democratic potential, posing interesting questions to existing systems such as finance, politics, ownership and art. The Internet is no longer a child and as such is establishing its own ‘identity’ and role for the long-term future. Its networked distribution models have significantly affected our experience of the world around us. Television, news, and art are being challenged by digital space relationships. Video is now distributed predominantly on the web, election campaigns are being orchestrated through grass roots web involvement and Open source software is seriously questioning the future of software giants. Media Technologies can be the interface between people and systems to open up a more democratic, efficient and sustainable future. Alongside this, the continual drive for technological development, ‘mastery’ over nature and our insatiable desire for techno-gadgetry could be seen as key contributor to the current poor health of world eco-systems. PermaCultures aims to bring together artists, technologists, ecologists and creative people, both young and old, to work alongside each other and examine collective differences and cohesions that can build future sustainable relationships. SPACE Media would like to hear from anybody interested in the PermaCultures programme in any capacity. This includes but not exclusively, undertaking residencies, giving talks or workshops or simply to exchange ideas and add to an interesting debate. Please contact mailto: j...@spacestudios.org.ukthis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it PermaCultures Residency #01 The PermaCultures series opens with a residency period for Simon Blackmore, an artist based in Manchester who works with The Owl Project as well as an individual artist. Simon will be in residence in the Front SPACE for the whole of March developing a project that explores relationships to passive data and the relationship of ‘data forms’ to organic shapes. He will be developing a drawing device from an open source rapid prototyping machine to convert electro-magnetic activity (such as electro-magnetic frequencies as used by mobile phones) into beautiful animated drawings. http://www.simonblackmore.net http://www.owlproject.com/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
