indeed there are are many artists working on these topics, some of them have been indicared in other posts.
More, there are artsts who are working on the idea of sustainability or on the impact of the human activities on our planet.
Then there are events and artists involved in projects dealing with the climate change, here a few links:
http://www.olats.org/fcm/artclimat/artclimat_eng.php
http://www.capefarewell.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/02/climate-change-art-earth-rethink
http://climatechangeeducation.org/art/visual_arts/
There are many more situations dealing with the climate change issues, sorry for indicating here only a few websites. Maybe some yasminers can add more information about this topic.
Best,
Pier Luigi
Il giorno 02/mag/2010, alle ore 00.28, Laura Gemini ha scritto:
> Dear Pier Luigi,
> Dear Yasminers,
>
> I'm not a respondent in this debate but I've been following it and I find
> all the posts very interesting. So I'd like to do a simple question,
> starting from a short sentence.
> As far as I'm concerned, that is from an ephistemological and sociological
> point of view, the anthropocentrism – and its linked concept: narcissism –
> it's mainly a symbolic issue. In other words: only the human beings can
> leave the anthropocentric point of view as a symbolic instance. According to
> Edgar Morin I mean… If we try to define a sort of "eco-thought" (that could
> include nature and technology as well) we must conceive this process as an
> human awareness or necessity to reduce the complexity of the world.
> Now I'm wondering: what does it means for the art and for the artists? What
> kind of art, which example or case, is based on this kind of awareness or
> necessity?
>
> Laura
>
> 2010/4/23 Pier Luigi Capucci <plc@noemalab.org>
>
>> hello,
>>
>> sorry Francesco, Roger and all for joining this discussion late. It is
>> indeed a very intriguing topic, and, as Natasha noted, a multidimensional
>> one.
>>
>> Indeed the idea of "anthropocentrism" as some kind of ideology which puts
>> humankind at the center of the known world has been historically put in
>> discussion in a long path. 2009 was both the 400 anniversary of the
>> telescope's invention by Galileo and the 150 anniversary of the publication
>> of Darwin's "Origin of the Species" (and the 200centenary of his birth).
>> [BTW 2009 was the centenary anniversary of the Futurism avantgarde too, with
>> the central position their time's technologies had in their poetics, but
>> we'd go too far]
>>
>> With his invention Galileo gave an extraordinary push to the sky's
>> observation, to the diffusion of the heliocentric system and of Copernicus'
>> theories, also through the "scientific method" (which is often called
>> "Galilean method"). Copernicus dethroned the humankind from his central
>> position in the Universe, but, although dislocated in a remote zone the
>> humankind remained the chosen creature, the first one, the highest among the
>> living beings on the Earth. Darwin dethroned the humankind from his
>> privileged position. Like all the living beings, humankind is the result of
>> an extremely long process, of a "design without a designer". All the living
>> beings, humankind included, were not created as they are and are not steady
>> and unchangeable, but evolved starting about 3,8 billion years ago from a
>> remote group of primeval common organisms.
>>
>> Hence all the living organisms are related, and each individual, whatever
>> species it belongs, is unique but it is pervaded by the matter and the
>> processes which compose all the other living beings. The fundamental
>> processes and the control mechanisms are essentially the same in all
>> species; in our genes we have the genes of many other species, even of
>> viruses. And the difficulties and discussions in the science domain on the
>> definition of "species" and on the methodology to set the differences among
>> the species emphasize this "unitarity".
>>
>> It seems today the humankind is reaching another topic point in this
>> relativization path, since he has the chance to use sciences and
>> technologies to hugely modify some issues which deeply define the "human
>> essence", which becomes basically uncertain. But does this all imply that
>> anthropocentrism is fading out? Or, better, does it imply it will/can
>> disappear?
>>
>> More after.
>>
>> Pier Luigi
>>
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>> e-mail: plc@noemalab.org
>> web: http://www.noemalab.org/plc/plc.html
>> skype: plcapucci
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