{"id":3223,"date":"2016-11-23T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T02:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T02:41:18","slug":"cfp-agents-in-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/blog\/2016\/11\/cfp-agents-in-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Agents in the Anthropocene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans\/Disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today<\/h1>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bc2f33\">Call for Presentations<br \/>\nDeadline: 16 December 2016<br \/>\nOccurs: 26-28 January\u00a02017<br \/>\nPiet Zwart Institute\u00a0| Rotterdam, NL<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The Anthropocene is both a widely acknowledged and fiercely debated term for a new geological era caused by humankind\u2019s destructive influence on the planet. A growing number of exhibitions and publications are studying the intersection of the so-called Anthropocene with artistic and cultural practices. Often they advocate for modes of trans-disciplinary research that incorporate visual, cultural, artistic, technological, architectural, ecological and political categories. There seems to be an urge for a new kind of aesthetics for narrating the contemporary global reality\u2014whether measured by a scientist or framed by an artist, or collaboratively developed by both of them. This collaborative narration transforms separate creative disciplines into a new multi-disciplinary field, whose future appearance remains speculative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Is there an urge for \u2018new mental equipment\u2019 that will allow us to imagine the Human-Nature partnership differently? There is certainly growing engagement and activism among artists and designers\u2014a motivation to work together as collectives within cooperative projects, laboratory research settings and the like. What can we learn from these new modes of operation and trans-disciplinary research?\u00a0 How are artists and designers able to\u00a0<em>act<\/em>? How do we educate them in the face of the \u2018Anthropocene\u2019? What repercussions might these kinds of discussions even have for secondary art education? Or, how do we imagine ourselves as environmental humanities?<\/p>\n<p>In addition to keynote presentations and brainstorm sessions, we would like to open up the symposium to presentations of exemplary practices and research from students, tutors, artists, designers, scientists, collectives and et cetera. We gladly invite anyone interested in the topic of the symposium to participate and to submit a project or paper proposal before the 16th of December\u00a0(this can be theoretical research, journalistic investigation, an artistic or design experiment, or an educational programme).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"image-credit\">Image Credit:\u00a0Gilberto Esparza, Plantas Autofotosint\u00e9ticas (Autophotosynthetic Plants), 2015, Phytonucleum Electricus Cella, Installation, Variable Dimensions, (Courtesy of Gilberto Esparza).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agents in the Anthropocene: Trans\/Disciplinary Practices in Art and Design Education Today Call for Presentations Deadline: 16 December 2016 Occurs: 26-28 January\u00a02017 Piet Zwart Institute\u00a0| Rotterdam, NL &nbsp; The Anthropocene is both a widely acknowledged and fiercely debated term for a new geological&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":3224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transdisciplinarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}