Nature 2.0: Ethics And Aesthetics Of Digital Landscapes
In this workshop, ecoarttech (Cary Peppermint and Leila Nadir) lead artistic investigations into digital eco-art that engages the physical landscapes surrounding Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the networked landscapes that technologically infuse our global culture. Through both theory and practice, we emphasize open source software for sustainable, creative solutions for both physical and networked environments. Students create hybrid new media works that exist both online and off.
Multiple software applications will be used to create digital, mixed-media artworks, including web applications, data visualizations, digital imaging, networked performance, sound and internet art.
Class meetings involve a mix of philosophical readings, digital media creative practice, technical exercises and critique. Brief readings on the ethics and aesthetics of digital media and the environmental movement are distributed daily for class discussion.
Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir co-founded ecoarttech to explore environmental issues, convergent media and technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective. Recent exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Exit Art, and the European Media Art Festival. Cary teaches at Colgate University, and Leila is a Mellon post-doctoral fellow in environmental humanities at Wellesley College.
Link:
http://www.andersonranch.org/workshops/courses/details/index.php?page=digital-media&id=2673
Cary Peppermint's work explores the convergence of ecological, cultural, and digital networks, through a post-disciplinary practice with strong ties to internet and performance art. His works are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Computer Fine Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Since co-founding ecoarttech with Leila Nadir in 2005, Cary's art has turned toward the imagination of the environment as a convergent network of biological, cultural, and digital spaces. Selected ecoarttech works include "Eclipse,” commissioned by Turbulence.org; "Untitled Landscape #5,” a commission for the Whitney Museum of American Art; and "Center for Wildness and the Everyday,” a series of digital media works and performances about water scarcity commissioned by the University of North Texas. ecoarttech's honors include a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts artist fellowship and teaching appointments at Banff New Media Institute and Anderson Arts Ranch. Cary’s curatorial work has focused on digital, back-country, off the grid exhibitions such as Wild Info Net, a solar-powered sound-art installation in the Catskill Mountains, and Nature 2.0, one of the first exhibitions of eco-art engaging new media technologies. Peppermint is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester and has held previous appointments at Cornell University, Colgate University, and the Pratt Institute.
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