Cátedra “Balance Unbalance” en Arte y Clima: Más allá de la tierra [Antártida]

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Cátedra “Balance Unbalance” en Arte y Clima: Más allá de la tierra [Antártida]
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Viernes, Febrero 25, 2022 - 14:00
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Viernes, Febrero 25, 2022 - 16:00
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Un encuentro entre artistas, científicos, emprendedores, curadores y educadores para hablar sobre el cambio climático y aquello que parece estar más allá de la tierra donde vivimos en el margen de nuestro planeta. Experiencias, estudios y proyectos en la Antártida, diagnósticos de la actual situación y propuestas de posibles soluciones a la crisis ambiental.
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Un encuentro entre artistas, científicos, emprendedores, curadores y educadores para hablar sobre el cambio climático y aquello que parece estar más allá de la tierra donde vivimos, fuera de nuestro alcance, en el margen de nuestro planeta. Experiencias, estudios y proyectos en la Antártida, diagnósticos de la actual situación y propuestas de posibles soluciones a la crisis ambiental.

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An encounter between artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, curators and educators to talk about climate change and what seems to be beyond the land where we live, on the edge of the earth, almost off the planet... but not.

Experiences, studies and projects in Antarctica, diagnoses of the current situation and proposals for possible solutions to the environmental crisis.

 

Cátedra “Balance Unbalance” en Arte y Clima 

Sesión / Session: #2

February 25, 2022

2:00 – 4:00 pm hora COLOMBIA

Tema / Theme: Más allá de la tierra [Antártida] / Edge of the earth [Antarctica]

Idioma/ Language: English


Participantes:

- Andrea Polli - Environmental artist and researcher. PhD in practice-led research. Professor, University of New Mexico. USA.

Andrés Franco Herrera - Marine Biologist. PhD in Oceanography. Academic Vice President - University Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Colombia.

Adam Hyde - Founder of Coko, b.net and Book Sprints. Established Radioqualia FM station in Antarctica. New Zealand.

- Vanessa Wells - Filmmaker, actor and improviser. Children’s play and documentary films on Antarctica and climate change. New Zealand. 

- Nina Czegledy (session #2 co-curator) - Independent curator, media artist, researcher and educator. Canada/Hungary. 


General coordinators:

Felipe César Londoño (University Jorge Tadeo Lozano) and Ricardo Dal Farra (Concordia / UNTREF / Balance-Unbalance).

 

Invitados

    • Andrea Polli

      Is currently a Professor of Art Studio with appointments in Fine Arts and Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She holds the Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media. Polli's art work with science, technology and media has been presented worldwide and has been recognized by hundreds of grants, residencies and awards including the National Science Foundation, the NYFA Artist's Fellowship, and a Fulbright Specialist Award. In 2007/2008 she traveled to Antarctica with the NSF Artists and Writers program and published the book Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change and the Poles in 2011.

    • Andrés Franco Herrera

      Marine Biologist from Bogota's University Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia and Doctor in Oceanography from the University of Concepción, Chile. With 34 years of academic and research experience in marine sciences on issues around marine ecology, oceanology, water quality, ocean acidification, marine pollution, climate change and biodiversity of tropical, temperate and polar systems. He is Professor and has been Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Director of the Marine Laboratory of Santa Marta in the Colombian Caribbean and Director of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. He is an Antarctic Expeditionary, a guest columnist for the newspaper El Tiempo in the area of Science and was part of the International Expert Mission - 2019, as coordinator of the thematic focus on Oceans and Hydrobiological Resources. He has been designated as a corresponding member of the Colombian Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences and is currently the Academic Viceprovost of the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogota.

    • Adam Hyde

      Born in New Zealand, Adam Hyde is the founder of Coko (Collaborative Knowledge Foundation. He also founded b.net radio network and Static Television, New Zealand's first community television station. He relocated to Europe in 1999. Adam led technical projects, building platforms, methodologies and communities at Coko to support open source collaborative knowledge production and publication as part of the academic process of all operations. Adam is also the founder of Book Sprints and several other publishing companies. In 2006 Adam, while in Antarctica, established the Radioqualia FM station broadcasting while he stayed in Antarctica, and then during the Antarctic Winter, the SANAE team who live at the base over the winter ran it. This was Antarctica's first artist-run radio station.

    • Vanessa Wells

      Is a filmmaker and theatre practitioner who has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years. Her debut feature documentary film “East to East” about a group of teenagers completing the iconic Coast to Coast multisport event received critical acclaim.  Her award-winning interactive work and collaborative approach has led her to explore mainly the educational and documentary genre, and in 2018/19 her work has taken Vanessa to Antarctica. The first trip to the Ice was to produce a touring educational children’s play (which toured primary schools in late 2020) and also to create content for Sesame Street. The second trip to the Ice has resulted in a short documentary “Te Whakairo,” which was officially selected for Show Me Shorts Festival 2019, was a semi-finalist at CSFF in China, invited to screen at The Explorers Club New York Polar Film Festival, FIFO 2020, the Christchurch Polar Film Festival and the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020.  Vanessa has a feature documentary on climate change and the Antarctic - “The Climate Canary” - in development.

    • Guest co-curator: Nina Czegledy

      Is an independent curator, media artist, researcher, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. She collaborates internationally on art & science & technology projects. Current curatorial projects: A Light Footprint in the Cosmos for the Substantial Motion Research Network (June 2022, in Vancouver, Canada), Sensoria, the art and science of our senses Laznia, Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk, Poland (September 2022). Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, Ontario College of Art and Design University; Research Fellow, KMDI University of Toronto; Senior Fellow Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest; Member of the Governing Board of Leonardo/ISAST; Board member, NOEMA Scientific Committee, Bologna, Italy; Researcher, Hexagram International Network for Research-Creation, Montreal; Chair, Intercreate Org, New Zealand.

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