Tag: contemporary art
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Lunch Lecture: ‘More Than Material: Living Plants as Artistic Collaborators’ – Dr. Minna Valjakka (27 October 2026)
On Tuesday, 27 October 2026, Dr. Minna Valjakka will deliver a lunch lecture at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, discussing the increasing attention to working with living plants among East and Southeast Asian artists. Building on her ongoing study Plants, Knowledge, and Contemporary Arts in East and Southeast Asia, she will discuss…
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Symposium: Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Entangled Existence
Category: EventsTags: aesthetics, contemporary art, entanglement, environmental humanities, human-non-human interrelationsWhat does it mean to say that everything is relational and everything is connected? What possibilities and perils emerge when we understand entanglement to be a fundamental condition of life? These are some of the questions guiding the symposium ‘Too Close! The Pleasures and Perils of an Engtangled Existence’, happening…
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EHC Lecture Series Environmental Justice: Emily Eliza Scott on Tracking Inequity
Category: EventsIn this EHC lecture on 19 September (18.30hrs, VU Amsterdam), Emily Eliza Scott will share from her book-in-progress on art that traces, and thereby actively attempts to resist, various forms of environmental violence as writ into land, air, and water.
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EHC Lecture: Tracking Inequity with Emily Eliza Scott
Category: EventsWe hope you can join us for a lecture with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. Title: Tracking Inequity: Contemporary Art and Environmental Justice Place: VU Amsterdam Date: September 19 Time: 18:30 More information and registration here.
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Sonic Acts Biennale
Category: UncategorizedThe biennial international festival celebrating electronic and digital art forms returns to Amsterdam this October, bringing together the environmental humanities and contemporary art to ask how we can care for what we cannot see or understand.
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Interview with T. J. Demos
Category: UncategorizedTags: Center for Creative Ecologies, contemporary art, ecology, environmental humanities, interview, T. J. Demos, visual cultureArt historian T.J. Demos was at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to present his most recent book publication Against the Anthropocene (2017) on December 12th 2017. We had the opportunity to interview him on behalf of the Environmental Humanities Center. Just before he started his book presentation we met and…
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Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Barcelona)
Category: NewsTags: anthropocene, Barcelona, conference, contemporary art, neomaterialism, posthumanism, symposiumIst International Symposium December 1, 2016 Meier Auditorium (MACBA, Plaça Joan Coromines, Barcelona) Production and organization: AGI | Art Globalization Interculturality, Universitat de Barcelona Coordinator: Christian Alonso (UB) In collaboration with: MACBA | Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Translocal Institute for Contemporary Art (Budapest) Keynotes: Maja & Reuben Fowkes…