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"If mining companies are given the go-ahead to exploit the ocean depths, the environmental cost will be devastating. As the clock ticks down to a crucial deadline in July, Michael Segalov reports."

Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed If mining companies are given the go-ahead to exploit the ocean depths, the environmental cost will be devastating. As the clock ticks down to a crucial deadline in July, Michael Segalov reports

⚠️Open call!

The Creativity Pioneers Fund (CPF) catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing cultural and creative organizations that advance bold and unconventional practices for building a more just, inclusive, and equitable world. Working with and alongside organizations, donors and other stakeholders across the creative ecosystem, the Creativity Pioneers Fund aims to mobilize a collective effort to advance Creativity for Social Change.

Apply here:
https://creativitypioneersfund.ca.optimytool.com/en/

The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) calls on G7 countries to up their ambition and take critical action to defend the deep ocean following the release of the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Communique released on 16 April 2023.

G7 countries must lead the charge to protect the blue heart of our planet - Deep Sea Conservation Coalition DSCC REACTION 18.4.23 The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) calls on G7 countries to up their ambition and take critical action to defend the deep ocean following the release of the G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers’ Communique released on 16 April 2023. G7 Climate, Energy and Envi...

A must-read on deep sea mining in The New York Times by Diva Amon.

"The deep sea is a trove of biodiversity, rich in living resources used in medicines and critical in regulating the climate and providing spawning and feeding grounds for fish. The planet would not be the same without it.
(...)
Now a new threat looms. The ocean could be the next frontier for mining."

Opinion | A Rush to Mine the Deep Sea Is Underway. It Must Be Stopped. A scramble to mine the deep sea could soon commence. And once it begins, there will be little hope of reining it in.

Ars Electronica’s Gerfried Stocker speaks about merging art with technology – as well as about some of his favourite Ars Electronica prize winners, our collaborators Territorial Agency with the Academy-commissioned project Oceans in Transformation.

6 Questions for Ars Electronica's Gerfried Stocker on Merging Art With Technology Solutions to Drive Social Transformations | Artnet News A European Commission initiative, S+T+ARTS aims to foster creativity and artistry through technology, and support a more sustainable future.

After nearly 20 years of talks, a historic treaty has been reached to protect the high seas! 🎉🌊

The treaty is crucial for enforcing the 30x30 pledge made by countries at the UN biodiversity conference in December to protect a third of the sea (and land) by 2030.

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN After almost 20 years of talks, United Nations member states agree on legal framework for parts of the ocean outside national boundaries

💥 New exhibition alert!💥

Simone Fattal and Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano:
Thus waves come in pairs
Curated by Barbara Casavecchia
Opening April 22 at Ocean Space, Venice

This spring, TBA21–Academy presents “Thus waves come in pairs”, an exhibition comprising two new commissions for the 2023 exhibition program at Ocean Space. This will feature Paris-based artist Simone Fattal and Berlin-based artist duo Petrit Halilaj & Alvaro Urbano in an exhibition that concludes the third edition of the curatorial fellowship program The Current, led between 2021–2023 by Barbara Casavecchia and focused on the Mediterraneans and their many transformations.

The exhibition is commissioned and produced by TBA21–Academy.

The work by Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano is co-commissioned by TBA21–Academy and Audemars Piguet Contemporary; developed by the artists working closely together with the curatorial team at Audemars Piguet Contemporary and curator Barbara Casavecchia.

📸 1. Petrit Halilaj & Álvaro Urbano. Courtesy of the artists, TBA21–Academy and Audemars Piguet.
📸 2. Simone Fattal. Photo by Kathleen Weaver.

"Art provides us with so many different worldviews, so many different possibilities, so many different imaginaries - it's possible to encounter something that we had never considered."

The ninth episode of the podcast Communicating Climate Change features a conversation with our director Markus Reymann, discussing the role of art in addressing the climate crisis.

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/dStkUkkJ
🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dTNZCBB8.or wherever you get your podcasts!

‎Communicating Climate Change: The Role of Art in Addressing the Climate Crisis With Markus Reymann on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Communicating Climate Change, Ep The Role of Art in Addressing the Climate Crisis With Markus Reymann - 15 Jan 2023

🛎️ New episode of ✨ Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations ✨
With Diego Delas & Leonor Serrano Rivas and Lucia Pietroiusti

In the second episode, "Rhythmic Bodies: A Walk Through the Performance-Expedition, Breathings of the moon,” we are joined by curator of performance and ecology Lucia Pietroiusti, who interviews the S+T+ARTS artists in residence Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas to discuss the performance-expedition they developed during their residency in Venice.

The conversation focuses on the materiality of their artistic project and its various components: the tides of the Venice Lagoon and its acqua alta, the moon cycles, the rhythm of rowing and the audience’s heartbeat, all becoming magical strategies to help us become attuned to the voice of the water.

➡️ Listen now on TBA21–Academy Radio:

Ocean-Archive.org: https://ocean-archive.org/view/2726
Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3WlXKns
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fCfPUo81EtA7LYUUXJEsN
Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3hy4Shy
Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3FCBvCG

🎁 You can look forward to a new Magical Fresh & Salty Conversation on Thursdays in December and January.

Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations is a brand new podcast series by TBA21–Academy, exploring ecological and magical perspectives on bodies of water. Through performance, expeditions, sound, film, and image-making, the contributing artists encounter scientists and thinkers to propose a world re-imagined from within the waters.
Produced by TBA21–Academy with the support of STARTS, an initiative by the European Commission.

➡️ Hear more episodes at ocean-archive.org or subscribe with your podcast provider.

🔔New open call by The New Real!
The New Real 2023 AI Art Commission: Uncanny Machines 🤖

🛎️ OPEN CALL LIVE
The New Real 2023 AI Art Commission: Uncanny Machines

We are delighted to announce a new funded opportunity for an established creative practitioner (or practitioners) to work with The New Real's cross-disciplinary team, AI tools and textual data to develop a new AI Art work for presentation with a festival/venue/presentation partner in 2023.

Come on a journey with the to probe the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and illuminate the social implications of recent developments in AI.



Stage 1 will award five artists £1,000 each to develop a full project proposal and deliver a talk at a leading AI event. One of those artists will then be awarded £15,000 to develop a creative work

Total value £20,000:
5 x £1,000 development awards
1 x £15,000 full commission.

Expressions of Interest Deadline: 5pm, 23rd January 2023

Artists' Information Session:
⏰ 4pm
📅 11th January 2023
📍 Zoom
👇 Registration details to be announced via our website: https://www.newreal.cc

➡️ How to apply here info here: https://edin.ac/3HecQah


Listen to our New Real Art Commission: & 🎙️PODCAST
https://edin.ac/3HqyGqS

📖 Read New Real Commission blogs:

Hear from and about this new partnership https://edin.ac/3W2rHsx
Hear from about the New Real’a ambition to open up technology and data for open exploration and discovery, and to connect science and data to applications and impacts in the real world https://edin.ac/3Bcthjh

The New Real 2023 AI Art Commission is a partnership between The New Real at University of Edinburgh, Scottish AI Alliance, Alan Turing Institute and British Library.


Image Description: Diptych with an abstract back lit and pixelated image displaying colours ranging from whites to yellows and blues on the left and detail of a horses eye from artwork and sculpture, part of The Overlay by Inés Cámara Leret on the right.

Photo Credit: The New Real and The Overlay, by Inés Cámara Leret. Photographers Andrew Perry and Die Photo Frau

🛎️ New podcast! ✨ Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations ✨
Listen now on TBA21–Academy Radio.

Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations is a brand new podcast series by TBA21–Academy, exploring ecological and magical perspectives on bodies of water. Through performance, expeditions, sound, film, and image-making, the contributing artists encounter scientists and thinkers to propose a world re-imagined from within the waters.

🎁 You can look forward to a new Magical Fresh & Salty Conversation on Thursdays in December and January.

In our first episode, “The Problem of Imagination: The Triangle of Magic-Imagination-Science,” our guests examine three concepts that have historically framed the notion of nature. The hosts, S+T+ARTS artists in residence Diego Delas and Leonor Serrano Rivas, engage in a conversation with philosopher and writer Federico Campagna and professor of history of art, science, and folk practices John Tresch.

How do we imagine nature in the time of climate change? Can we redefine scientific knowledge through art? Do fiction and imagination have a reality-altering potential that could help us surpass the dichotomy of problem versus solution?

Listen via:
Ocean-Archive.org: https://ocean-archive.org/view/2721
Soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/tba21-academy/magical-fresh-salty-conversation-the-problem-of-imagination
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3SfWK7ZJB4ELIdLkUS7jjM
Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3uBBERO
Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3VXa6CN

🛎️ OPEN CALL: Deepwaters of Digital Ocean Hackaton
December 3–4, 2022, online
➡️ Apply at dodo.tba21.org

Thinking for the future starts from the bottom, from the abyss of the Ocean.
Are you ready to immerse yourself in the deep?

The DODO Hackathon connects participants from various fields, engaging in three different challenges ( targeted around the concept of “deepwaters” and the Ocean to investigate innovative and sustainable proposals and speculations for a new blue world.

The challenges :
🔹Creative AI and Ocean
🔹Blockchain and Seas
🔹MetaOcean – Ocean data in virtual environments

❓Who can apply?

We are interested in collaborators interested in the complex interplay of technology, humankind, and the environment. We are looking for artists, researchers, scholars, marine biologists, scientists, gamers, developers and coders, communicators, and data specialists. Not all roles involve deep technical knowledge or require previous experience with hackathons.

See more at: dodo.tba21.org
❗Application deadline: December 1

DODO is organized by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and TBA21–Academy in collaboration with Ars Electronica and The University of Edinburgh.

DODO November 30 - December 07, 2022ONLINE // LINZ Deepwaters of Digital Oceans HACKATHON: APPLY HERE HACKATHON: APPLY HERE Deepwaters of Digital Oceans (DODO) is a week-long research-based series of events focused on engagement with exponential technologies through the prism of the Ocean. ...

Are you ready for An Ocean Without Shore?
➡️ Full program at bit.ly/oceanosinorilla.

Today, we are delighted to launch the multi-day convening curated by Sofia Lemos that spans a city-wide conference-festival of performances, screenings, talks, meditation, LARP (live-action role playing), river-walks, communal meals, music, and poetry.

You can catch us from today until Saturday at various locations in Córdoba, including Sala Orive, around the city in Plaza Séneca and Torre de la Calahorra, as well as the magical Cuevas de Pino.

TODAY’S PROGRAM:

🌊 The Upspring: Wednesday 9 Nov

🔹 Roman Bridge, Ronda de Isasa
17:00 - 17:30 Cristina Aguilar Porro, river-walk

🔹 Plaza Séneca
17:30 - 18:30 Rosa Tharrats, Carrier Wave: Fountain Séneca, performance

🔹 Sala Orive

*English and Spanish with simultaneous translation

19:00 - 19:30 Welcome remarks by Markus Reymann and Sofia Lemos
19:30 - 19:50 Gracia López Anguita, An Ocean Without Shore, talk
20:00 - 20:20 Michael Marder, The “River of Already” and the Ocean of Emanations, talk
20:20 - 21:00 Michael Marder and Gracia López Anguita in-conversation convened by Sofia Lemos
21:00 - 22:00 Eduardo Navarro, communal supper

See more about the participating artists and the full program of the convening at bit.ly/oceanosinorilla.

🌊 OCEAN / UNI, Second session
Securing Small-Scale Fishing Justice Within Ocean Conservation Initiatives
With Monieba Isaacs and Massa Lemu
Moderated by Louise Carver

Wednesday, October 19, 6 pm CET
➡️ bit.ly/signupforoceanuni

Conservation is not just a question of humans versus nature.

In the second session of our brand new semester of OCEAN / UNI, moderated by Human Geographer and Political Ecologist Louise Carver, we hear from Monieba Isaacs (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at UWC and Too Big To Ignore, a global partnership for the future of small-scale fisheries), and Massa Lemu (Visual Artist and Writer).

What are the best examples of initiatives that work beyond human–nature binaries to reflect this fluidity and that emphasize justice, well-being, and Indigenous or community rights? What are some of the pervasive challenges and complexities of trying to do so? We hear from those working at the forefront of activism, research, and creative practice to secure small-scale fisher justice in combination with—and for the sake of—protecting and regenerating marine biodiversity.

Join us in Córdoba for a Meandering convening!

🌊 An Ocean Without Shore | Un Océano Sin Orilla
November 9–12, 2022 | Córdoba, Spain

❣️with Edgar Calel, Carolina Caycedo, Coco Fusco, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Juan López Intzín, Lafawndah, Lanoche, Isabel Lewis, Ana María Millán, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Eduardo Navarro, Colin Self, Rosa Tharrats, among others…
Between November 9–12, Meandering convenes An Ocean Without Shore, an evocative waterscape that spans a free, multi-day, and city-wide conference-festival of performances, screenings, talks, meditation, LARP (live-action role playing), river-walks, communal meals, music, and poetry.
The program, curated by Sofia Lemos, moves through intergenerational conversations, stories, and exchanges between artists, activists, poets, practitioners, and thinkers that explore diverse riverine ways of being and belonging. We warmly invite you to join us for four evenings of public events, offering research-driven, experiential resources for deepening our understandings of interdependent watery ecosystems.

➡️ More at tba21.org/oceanwithoutshore.
❣️ Stay tuned for more information on the program!

Design: Lana Jerichová.

🌊 Registration for OCEAN / UNI Fall semester 2022 is now open!

OCEAN / UNI Fall 2022 Semester:
Studies In Blue Agency: Six Global Tales Against Eco-Anxiety
October 5 – December 14, 2022

School is almost in session! 📚 OCEAN / UNI is back with its fifth cycle, Studies in Blue Agency, which departs from case studies that embody vulnerable aspects of our current climate. With the subtitle “Six global tales against eco-anxiety”, the semester identifies existing and emergent response strategies by expanding them on a wider scale—from the specific to the planetary level.

Unfolding throughout Fall 2022, the six live sessions will offer new perspectives on the many complexities of the Ocean and our transforming planet, with inter-disciplinary speakers presenting regional case studies containing critiques but also examples of affirmative interventions from ocean ecosystem regeneration, adaptation, activism, policy transformation and social justice.

➡️ Register via https://bit.ly/signupforoceanuni
➡️ More information at tba21.org/studiesinblueagency

TBA21.org OCEAN / UNIStudies in Blue Agency

If you're in Venice this weekend, don't miss a variety of oceanic events at Ocean Space and beyond!

This Friday, September 2, TBA21–Academy and Ocean Space are presenting a series of screenings at the Floating Cinema - Unknown Waters (Cinema Galleggiante - Acque Sconosciute), taking place in the lagoon behind Giudecca island. Visitors will be able to see:

🌊 Sardinia Film Commission production | Special project NAS - New Animation in Sardegna:
Riccardo Atzeni, "Augmented", 2022, (20’’);
Erica Meloni, "Il Mare negli Occhi", 2022, (15’’);
Barbara Pirisi, "Diventare un'isola", 2022, (10’’);
Matteo Porcu, "Spazi semplici", 2022, (15’’).

🌊 Raffaela Naldi Rossano, "WARP", 2022, (30').

🌊 Abdessamad El Montassir, "Galb’Echaouf", (19')

On Saturday, September 3, you can look forward to a talk and workshop with animators from the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation, followed by a series of workshops with Valeria Bottalico and Diana Policarpo, inspired by her installation “Ciguatera”.

PROGRAM:
🗣️10:15 am-11:15 am | Talk "We Passed Through Earth Lightly as Water”
🖌️ 11:15 am-12:30 pm | Animation workshop “Asinara, the dreamlike, the sea” by the NAS project (for participants aged 14 and over).
✏️11:30 am-5:15 pm | Educational workshops “Animated Science! Family Workshops with Chinese Shadows” (for children aged 1-10)

More information and bookings via Ocean Space.

🔹WARP is commissioned by Lofoten International Art Festival with the support of TBA21–Academy.
🔹TBA21–Academy's contribution to the Floating Cinema 2022 is part of the three-year cycle The Current III “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan)”, led by Barbara Casavecchia.

Photo: 1) Chiara Becattini, 2) Johan Muszynski, 3-4) Barbara Pau.

The Floating Cinema is back!

Together with Ocean Space, we are happy to present a selection of screenings that respond to the theme of the surreal, the dreamlike, and the absurd with a special collaboration with the Sardegna Film Commission, along with WARP, a new film by Raffaela Naldi Rossano, commissioned by Lofoten International Art Festival, and Abdessamad El Montassir's 2021 film Galb’Echaouf.

🔹 TBA21–Academy's contribution to the Floating Cinema 2022 is part of the three-year cycle The Current III “Mediterraneans: ‘Thus waves come in pairs’ (after Etel Adnan)”, led by Barbara Casavecchia.