From: Ricardo Dal Farra <ricardo.dalfa...@concordia.ca>
To: "czegl...@interlog.com" <czegl...@interlog.com>
Subject: [call: e-art & climate change] BALANCE-UNBALANCE conference 2017
<http://balance-unbalance2017.org/>http://balance-unbalance2017.org
BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2017
[Arts + Sciences x Technology = Environment / Responsibility]
- A Sense of Place -
August 21 to 23, 2017
i-DAT, Plymouth University, UK.
BALANCE-UNBALANCE (BunB
- <http://balance-unbalance2017.org/>http://balance-unbalance2017.org)
is an International Conference designed to
use ART as a catalyst to explore intersections
between NATURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as
we move into an era of both unprecedented
ecological threats and transdisciplinary
possibilities.
The BALANCE-UNBALANCE conference will bring
artists together with scientists, economists,
philosophers, politicians, management and policy
experts, sociologists and engineers from across
the world with the intent of engendering a
deeper awareness and creating lasting
intellectual working partnerships in solving our
global environmental crisis.
"We are living in a world reaching a critical
point where the equilibrium between a healthy
environment, the energy our society needs to
maintain or improve this lifestyle and the
interconnected economies could pass more quickly
than expected from the current complex balance
to a complete new reality where unbalance would
be the rule and human beings would need to be as
creative as never before to survive.
Environmental problems, economic uncertainty and
political complexity have been around for a long
time. What was different before was the speed
and depth of transformations compared with
today's sudden changes. The frequent occurrence
and severity that certain weather and
climate-related events are having around us is
increasing, and the ability of human beings on
modifying adjacent surroundings as well as
distant places have turn into a power capable of
altering the planet [] The arts could play a
major part in helping the global society to
understand the magnitude of the crisis we are
facing, and in promoting the awareness around
environmental matters. it could also be a very
good vehicle to disseminate proposals able
produce changes in our behavior and decisions,
influencing our chances for the future. Artists
could promote inter and transdisciplinary
actions focusing on our responsibility regarding
the turning point we are living in defining the
future of -human- life on Earth."
For further information on the BALANCE-UNBALANCE
agenda
read: <http://balance-unbalance2017.org/files/2016/08/Dal_Farra_BunB_Breaking_Paradigms_2015.pdf>Breaking
Paradigms: Electronic Arts & Humanitarian
Actions by Ricardo Dal Farra.
SUBMISSIONS:
BALANCE-UNBALANCE
2017 invites papers, transdisciplinary
workshops, artistic activities and
artefacts (including VR and Fulldome content), posters and panels that
respond to the provocation provided by the
'Sense of Place' theme. These initiatives should
propose new opportunities for
digital/electronic/media arts to catalyse
transdisciplinary activity and behaviour change
to help solve our global environmental crisis.
BunB 2017 wishes to build on the work of
previous BunB Conferences by cultivating virtual
and networked models which allow increased
diversity, access and dissemination whilst
significantly reducing the carbon footprint of a
major international conference.
BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2017, A Sense of Place is the
6th edition in the conference
series: <http://balance-unbalance2017.org/>http://balance-unbalance2017.org
BunB 2016 - Manizales,
Colombia: <http://www.balance-unbalance2016.org/>www.balance-unbalance2016.org
BunB 2015 - Arizona, United
States: <http://www.balance-unbalance2015.org/>www.balance-unbalance2015.org
BunB 2013 - Noosa,
Australia: <http://www.balance-unbalance2013.org/>www.balance-unbalance2013.org
BunB 2011 - Montreal,
Canada: <http://www.balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca/>www.balance-unbalance2011.hexagram.ca
BunB 2010 - Buenos Aires,
Argentina: <http://www.ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/eq-deseq-en>www.ceiarteuntref.edu.ar/eq-deseq-en
About the theme for BunB 2017: "A Sense of Place".
Our increasingly mediated relationship with the
environment brings new insights to the invisible
forces that affect complex ecologies. From
meteorological data flows to temporal climate
change models, our relationship with our
environment is becoming more abstract, simulated
and remote - tempering our desire to act. Could
it be that we know more and experience less?
BunB17 maps the coordinates of our Sense of
Place - the horizontal landscape to the vertical
transcalar spaces of the macro/micro.
The 6th edition of the BunB conference will be
held from August 21 to 23 of 2017 in Plymouth,
UK. Produced by i-DAT in collaboration with the
Sustainable Earth Institute and Art and Sound at
Plymouth University, BunB17 is being produced in
collaboration with the North Devon's UNESCO
Biosphere Reserve, Beaford Arts and Fulldome UK.
Deadline for submissions:
January 16, 2017 (midnight, UK time).
Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2017.
Call for
participation: <http://balance-unbalance2017.org/call-for-participation>http://balance-unbalance2017.org/call-for-participation/
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