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animal art: two most excellent opportunities — respond to curators ASAP (or by 31 March)

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  Call for Artworks: Australian Animal Studies Group & Queensland College of Art Exhibition and Online Survey of Human Animal Relations Artists 1. Exhibition: Animals, People – a shared environment. Brisbane, July 2011 As part of their fourth conference, the Australian Animal Studies Group is joining with the Queensland College of Art to hold an …

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unruly ecologies symposium talks online

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Recently I organised/curated/convened the unruly ecologies: biodiversity and art symposium for SymbioticA: A symposium exploring the possibilities and difficulties of the diversity of life through critical investigations in art, ecology and action. The majority of talks can be accessed here: http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/events/unruly-ecologies Unfotunately the original website no longer exists. It originally contained an online of survey biodiversity …

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Archaeoacoustics: Spaces and Sound in the Ancient World

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  Something deserving more investigation: “bringing a new dimension to what we know about our past” http://www.ancientmed.org/conference.htm ARCHAEOACOUSTICS? The field is an application of the sense of hearing to the science of archaeology.  We are particularly interested in the role acoustic behavior may have had in the development and design of important architecture and ritual …

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Aesthetics as a Way of Survival

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  Dutch artist Germaine Kruip filmed satin bowerbirds in her work Aesthetics as a Way of Survival similar to my 2004 video work herethere(hide). Her film about the bowerbird poses the question relating to the »artificial« and the »natural« in a surprisingly new way, encompassing the whole exhibition with this dichotomy. Guided by visual similarities …

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The Animal Gaze 2010 Symposium & Exhibition

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  The success of The Animal Gaze encouraged London Met to set up a series of associated events around animals and art today. These will be part of an ongoing programme under the banner of Cass Contemporary Arts (CASSCA)…CASSCA announces another symposium on animal/human studies and contemporary art at Sir John Cass in October 2010 …

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minding animals conference

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  This conference in Newcastle in July this year bills itself as ‘a transdisciplinary conference exploring the interrelationships between animals and society’: Where science meets the humanities Where academic meets activist Where environmentalist meets animal advocate Where all can participate in consideration of past, present and future interrelationships between human animals, nonhuman animals and the …

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