Tag: aesthetics
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This Friday: The Promise of Future Foods
Category: UncategorizedTags: aesthetics, agriculture, fermentation, food production, human-nonhuman relations, narrative, technologyIn his public lecture “Unsoiled: The Promise of Future Foods” organized by the Political Ecologies Seminar (UvA), Rhys Williams explores the narratives and aesthetics mobilised by radical developments in food production technologies, and asks what new formal relations between human and non-human nature they might bring into being. The accompanying Graduate…
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Symposium: Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate
Category: UncategorizedThe Goethe-Institut Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on Friday the 10th of May. Climate Realism is an occasion to rethink the aesthetics and politics of climate in its myriad forms; to capture climates capacity to express embedded histories; to map the formal strategies of representation that have turned climate into…
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PhD Candidate ‘Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture’
Category: NewsA PhD position in an Environmental Humanities subject is available at the University of Amsterdam in Esther Peeren’s ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS.
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The Art of Deception
Category: NewsExhibition by Isaac Monté, in collaboration with Toby Kiers Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 04-10-’16 / 14-02-‘17 Exhibition review by: Tim Renders This exhibition discusses the human urge for perfection by displaying transformed pigs hearts that resemble the urge for inner beauty. Belgian design activist Isaac Monté cooperated for this project with evolutionary…