::fibreculture:: HotHouse: call for short videos on urban design and environment

[Anna Munster]

HotHouse: Call for 1-min videos on sustainable futures

Hothouse is new long-term project focusing on the role of art, design and creative action in transforming the urban environment and promoting sustainability. 
An initiative of the National Institute of Experimental Arts (COFA, UNSW) in conjunction with Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Hothouse is supported by the City of Sydney and the Sydney Opera house.

In July we will be launching the Hothouse website and holding a 2-day event at the Sydney Opera House, leading to further large-scale exhibitions and public art events.

For the website, we are looking for short [up to 1-min] videos by artists, designers and any creative thinkers interested in the environment.

DETAILS:
Topic: "What the City needs ... " (envisaging sustainable futures/the transformation of the urban environment through environmentally conscious art/design)
Format: short videos [up to 1 minute long] uploaded to Vimeo (or YouTube)
Send link to r.kiang at unsw.edu.au by 15 June if possible

To be part of HotHouse’s 2-day event at the Sydney Opera House on 27-28 July see: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/hothouse.aspx



A/Prof. Anna Munster
Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics
School of Art History and Art Education
College of Fine Arts
UNSW
P.O. Box 259
Paddington
NSW 2021
612 9385 0741 (tel)
612 9385 0615(fax)
a.munster at unsw.edu.au