::fibreculture:: Sense of Planet symposium next weekend in Sydney

[Anna Munster]

WHAT: Sense of Planet: The Arts and Ecology at Earth Magnitude. A NIEA Symposium
WHEN: Saturday 25 August 2012, 9.30am-6.30pm
WHERE: UNSW CBD Campus,Combined Theatres T1 & 2
              Level 6, 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

SPEAKERS: URSULA HEISE (Stanford University), JENNIFER GABRYS (Goldsmiths, London), TIMOTHY MORTON (Rice University), NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF (New York University), MARKO PELJHAN (University of California Institute for the Arts, University of California at Santa Barbara)
The Sense of Planet symposium brings together an international array of artists, eco-theorists and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety. It examines the relationship between arts, including media arts and technology and ecological concerns and sensibilities. Topics include database and the ecological imagination, sensor technologies, environmental data gathering, environmental participation and imagining, anthropocene aesthetics and integrative practices for the creation of systems for participatory engagement. 

Abstracts, Program and Registration
www.niea.unsw.edu.au/events



A/Prof. Anna Munster
Deputy Director Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics
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


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