Friday, October 2, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] art in extreme environments

I have just been made aware of this by Amanda
McDonald Crowley on my Facebook account (she is working at
Eyebeam in NY and the work of Robert Ransick "Casa Segura"
wich has been developed during a residency at Eyebeam is
featured in the book).

Ruth Slavid's new book "Extreme Architecture, Building for
Challenging Environments". http://bit.ly/vYuWI

Of course, I haven't read it yet. ...

Best
Annick
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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] art in extreme environments

Dear Yasminers,

Some available documents to bring "food for thoughts" and
discussions :

1 - The catalogue of the @rt Outsiders festival is now
available to download at :
http://www.art-outsiders.com/edition2009/expo.htm

This catalogue is bilingual French/English
In it, you'll find :
- texts by the artists about their work
- introduction by the co-curators (Jean-Luc Soret and myself)
- A very interesting and challenging text by Louis Bec that
should bring more debates and exchanges in our discussion
and that I strongly recommend reading.

2 - (Self) interview of Stephen Eastaugh (based on a
question we asked him)
available at :
http://www.art-outsiders.com/edition2009/artiste05.htm
(scroll down the page)
Note that Stephen is currently wintering over at the
antarctic australian base of Mawson and cannot (for various
reasons) take part in our discussion. In this trip, he will
have spend over a year in Antarctica (and he has been to the
Continent several times on shorter stays).
For Stephen (who is familiar with all sorts of environments,
and particularly barren ones), and who is spending *real*
time there, Antarctica is anything but "home" and far from
becoming so, if at all (I think I am true to his ideas by
saying that).
This interview (only 5 minutes long) is worth listening to.

Well, in case, you didn't know what to do during your
week-end, now you have a plan !

Best
Annick

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Re: [Yasmin_discussions] art in extreme environments

to Sarah Jane and all Yasminers


I suspect another way to phrase it shortly is :

from my point of view as long as a place remains "exotic",
we are in trouble, as long as anything remains exotic, we
are in trouble.


Annick

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Friday, September 11, 2009

[Yasmin_discussions] uninhabitable

yasminers

for our discussion on

*Un)Inhabitable? – Art of Extreme Environments* presents works that explore
the meaning of living in extreme environments, in the imaginary realm as
well as in the physical one, in the political, social and environmental
fields as well as in the poetic ones.

connected to the exhibition in paris at the moment:

http://www.art-outsiders.com/edition2009/default-en.htm

let me mention that as you will remember there was a conference in
prague in 2007 on a related topic

*MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences*

*the papers from this conference are now available*

*on line at*

http://mutamorphosis.wordpress.com/
**

International conference

November 8-10, 2007

Prague, Czech Republic

*Artists and scientists from all over the world came together to address a
theme of extreme and hostile environments, a theme that stands important in
our changing world and society. *

*The conference was organized by CIANT | International Centre for Art and
New Technologies <http://www.ciant.cz/>** as part of the ENTER3
festival<http://enter3.org/>
** and in the framework of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Leonardo
journal and ISAST – the International Society for Art, Science and
Technology <http://leonardo.info/>**.*

we look forward to discussing how these topics have evolved !!

roger
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[Yasmin_announcements] ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009 [Registration Open]

ACM Creativity and Cognition 2009

Berkeley CA - (Registration Open)

October 27th - 30th 2009
http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Professor of Psychology & Management
Claremont Graduate University [California, USA]

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory
Nanosystems Institute [California, USA]

Jane Prophet Professor of Interdisciplinary Computing
Goldsmiths University of London [London, UK]

CONFERENCE THEMES AND TOPICS

The Creativity and Cognition Conference series started in 1993 and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI. The conference provides a forum for lively interdisciplinary debate exploring methods and tools to support creativity at the intersection of art and technology. This year submissions from academics and practitioners, makers and scientists, artists and theoreticians will be presented.

This year's broad theme of Everyday Creativity reflects the new forms of creativity emerging in everyday life, and includes topics of:

* Collective creativity and creative communities
* Shared languages and participatory creativity
* Incubating creativity and supporting Innovation
* DIY and folk creativity
* Democratising creativity
* New materials for creativity
* Enriching the collaborative experience

Accepted submissions include the following forms of work:

* Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
* In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
* Reflective and theoretical accounts of individual and collaborative practice
* Principles of interaction design and requirements for creativity support tools
* Educational and training methods
* Interdisciplinary methods, and models of creativity and collaboration
* Analyses of the role of technology in supporting everyday creativity

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

[Yasmin_announcements] Les enjeux géopolitiques des ressources énergétiques de la zone arctique

Dear Yasminers,

For those of you who are in Paris next week and understand
French

Conférence dans le cadre du Festival @rt Outsiders 2009
http://www.art-outsiders.com/edition2009/conference.htm

Les enjeux géopolitiques des ressources énergétiques de la
zone arctique

Mercredi 16 septembre 2009 / 18h00 – 20h00 – Auditorium de
la MEP
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris

Modération : Henry Chapier

avec la participation de :

- Laurent Mayet, conseiller de Michel Rocard pour l'Arctique
et directeur de la rédaction de la revue Pôles Nord & Sud

- Stanilas Pottier, conseiller de Michel Rocard pour l'Arctique

- Xavier Fourt, Bureau d'Etudes

- Anne Choquet, juriste et enseignante à l'Université de
Bretagne Occidentale, spécialiste du droit de l'Antarctique,
travaille depuis 2007 sur la problématique de la gouvernance
arctique.


Best
annick


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[Yasmin_announcements] Appel à Communications : La Poésie scientifique, de la gloire au déclin

From Hughes Marchal


Appel à communications

La Poésie scientifique, de la gloire au déclin

Colloque international

Montréal (Canada), 15-17 septembre 2010

[See English text below]

À la fin des Lumières, plusieurs pays européens virent
s'imposer et circuler des œuvres alliant vers et exposé
scientifiques, tels que The Botanic Garden d'Erasmus Darwin
(1791), rapidement traduit en français par Deleuze, Les
Trois Règnes de la nature de Jacques Delille (1808),
traduits en néerlandais dès 1813, ou encore Die Metamorphoze
der Pflanzen de Goethe (1798). Le succès de ces longs
traités, souvent complétés par un important appareil de
notes, constitue l'un des points culminants d'une tradition
de poésie didactique remontant à Lucrèce ou Virgile, mais il
est sans doute aussi le chant du cygne du genre.

Les acteurs de la « République des Lettres » unissaient,
selon Voltaire, des compétences allant « des épines des
mathématiques aux fleurs de la poésie ». Ce modèle disparaît
au 19e s. au profit d'une culture divisée en disciplines
désormais réputées distinctes. De fait, des voix multiples
vont condamner de plus en plus fréquemment l'alliance entre
poésie et science. Leopardi pose entre elles « une inimitié
jurée et mortelle », Keats reproche à Newton d'avoir «
détruit l'arc-en-ciel », et Poe, relayé par Baudelaire, fait
du didactisme une « hérésie ». En France, après 1900 et
Sully Prudhomme, les efforts pour mettre en vers la science
n'aboutiront souvent qu'à enrichir le catalogue des « fous
littéraires ».

La remise en cause de la légitimité du poème scientifique a
entraîné sa dévalorisation esthétique et une certaine
ignorance critique. La manière dont la poésie scientifique
moderne s'est étiolée dans chaque pays à des rythmes
différents reste en conséquence peu connue, et n'a pas fait
l'objet d'une réflexion comparatiste approfondie.

À l'initiative d'une équipe de recherche travaillant sur la
poésie scientifique française, ce colloque réunira des
spécialistes de différentes littératures pour essayer de
dresser une cartographie de l'évolution du genre, en Europe
et en Amérique du Nord, de 1750 à nos jours.

Le phénomène de promotion, puis de remise en cause, et
finalement de disparition, a-t-il affecté chaque région de
la même manière et aux mêmes dates ? A-t-il été propre à
l'ensemble de l'Occident ou n'a-t-il concerné que certains
pays ? Quels ont été les formes employées, leurs facteurs de
péremption, et les arguments mis en œuvre pour ou contre le
genre ? La poésie scientifique survit-elle néanmoins et sous
quelle forme ?

Tout en privilégiant des contributions à valeur de synthèse,
le colloque pourra s'ouvrir à des études plus monographiques
portant sur des figures exemplaires de cette production. Les
travaux pourront s'inscrire dans un ou plusieurs des quatre
axes principaux :

- Tendances : Panoramas diachronique ou synchronique sur
l'ensemble d'une production nationale, sur un sous-genre ou
sur un thème donné.

- Acteurs : Interventions sur les figures majeures de la
poésie scientifique (auteurs, contributeurs, savants,
contradicteurs du genre, etc.)

- Espaces : Approches privilégiant les phénomènes
d'interfaces nationales (traductions, voyages, engouement et
modes transnationales, nationalisme et science)

- Méthodes : Réflexions sur les outils mobilisables pour
aborder ce type de textes.

Les communications dureront une vingtaine de minutes. Les
propositions (3500 signes max.) devront être adressées aux
organisateurs avant le 10 octobre 2009 :

Hugues Marchal (Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle Paris 3 /
CNRS) : marchal.hugues@wanadoo.fr

Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal) :
michel.pierssens@umontreal.ca


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Call for papers

The Glory and Fall of Scientific Poetry

An International Colloquium

Montreal (Canada), Sept. 15-17, 2010

By the end of the Enlightenment period in Europe, a number
of literary works mixing verse and science gained prominence
and were circulated in several countries. Erasmus Darwin's
The Botanic garden (1791) was quickly translated into French
by Deleuze., Jacques Delille's Les Trois règnes de la nature
(1808) was translated in Flemish as early as 1813, and
Goethe published his Metamorphoze der Pflanzen in 1798. The
success of these long treatises, often accompanied with an
imposing set of footnotes, marks a high point in the
tradition of didactic poetry that goes as far back as
Lucretius or Vergil. Yet, it is at the same time the swan's
song of the genre.

Participants in the "Republic of Letters" possessed an
expertise that ranged, according to Voltaire, "from the
thorns of mathematics to the flowers of poetry". This all
disappears during the 19th c. to the benefit of a culture
made up of disciplines considered distinct from then on. As
a matter of fact, the alliance between science and poetry
soon started being condemned. According to Leopardi, they
share "a sworn and eternal enmity"; Keats reproaches Newton
with "unweaving the rainbow". For Poe, didactism is but a
"heresy" – a position backed by Baudelaire. In France, after
1900 and Sully Prudhomme, any effort to convey science in
verse will often but result in enriching the inventory of
"fous littéraires".

Thus denied of its legitimacy, scientific poetry equally
lost any esthetic value it might have had and it was widely
ignored by literary critics. This process took place in
different ways in different countries, but little is known
about it since no serious comparative study has ever been
conducted.

Initiated by a research team at work on French scientific
poetry, the Montreal colloquium will bring together
specialists of different literatures in order to try and map
the evolution of the genre, in Europe and in North America,
from 1750 until today.

Did the fall of scientific poetry from an elevated status,
followed by an almost complete disappearance, work in the
same way at the same time in all areas? Was it a global
Western phenomenon or did it affect some countries only?
Which poetic forms were in use, what is it that caused their
fall of grace and what kind of arguments were used for or
against scientific poetry? Is there still some kind of
scientific poetry in existence today and what does it look like?

The emphasis will be put on attempts at a global
apprehension of the topic but monographic studies will
equally be welcome when dedicated to exemplary cases.

Four major directions will be favored:

- Trends: Panoramic views in synchrony or diachrony of a
nation's output, or of a sub-genre or a specific theme.

- Actors: Communications dedicated to major figures
(authors, contributors, scientists, opponents of the genre,
etc.)

- Areas: Emphasis on the role of national interfaces
(translations journeys, transnational themes and fashions,
science and nationalist views).

- Methods: Tools adapted to the study of scientific poetry
texts.

The duration of standard communications will not exceed some
20 mn. Proposals (3500 signs max) should be forwarded to the
conveners by October 10:

Hugues Marchal (Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle Paris 3 /
CNRS) : marchal.hugues@wanadoo.fr

Michel Pierssens (Université de Montréal) :
michel.pierssens@umontreal.ca


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